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Republican "intellectual" tells black law students they are inferior
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The National Review's resident white supremacist intellectual John Derbyshire was invited by the Black Law Student Association at UPenn Law School to speak about government's role in addressing racial disparities in education and employment. "The Derb" gave his standard "Racism 101" lecture:
"When the organizers first emailed me to suggest I appear on the panel, I told them that this is my view of the matter. I said that I was flattered to be invited to speak at such a prestigious institution, and that, having two teenage children, I am always glad to get out of the house for a few hours; but that racial disparities in education and employment have their origin in biological differences between the human races. Those differences are facts in the natural world, like the orbits of the planets. They can't be legislated out of existence; nor can they be "eliminated" by social or political action."
In the early days of the National Review, William F. Buckley championed the white supremacist governments of South Africa and the American South. He never fully renounced these views and with John Derbyshire racism is once again the predominant ideology of America's "most respected" conservative publication.