Posted on 04/07/2012 4:24:15 PM PDT by cartan
Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.
True, and that should tell you all you need to know about NR.
http://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/rowdy.html
http://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/lovenotwar.html
http://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/page.html
The National Review now stands athwart history, yelling,Please dont hurt me. I promise to be a good little poodle.
Great commentary, MuttThe Poodle.
If I ever meet you, I’ll buy you a coffee or iced tea - your choice.
One of the "outlandish" things in the column was advice to avoid black neighborhoods. Now there are far too many times when that is life-saving advice based upon fifty years or so of experience.
Take Cincinnati.. please!
Whites driving home by their usual routes through Avondale were dragged from cars beaten some killed and some left with permanent damage. That was in the 1960s and happened multiple years.
I left Cincinnati in 1970 but I know that there have been similar events there -- and in other cities -- in the years since the 1960s.
I hope Mr. Lowry and the rest have the courage of their convictions to freely drive through all areas of their cities throughout the coming months. Fat chance.
Obama been laudin' that martial law and I bet he and his sons got plans to stir up all kinds of turmoil (Van Jones warned of it too). So good advice. Careful where you are from now on. That of course is racist.
Blacks should be careful about white neighborhoods. That of course in not racist. Go figure.
” Sooner or later they will part ways with Mark Steyn because Steyn always writes truth too.”
Good.....then they can go bankrupt.
“I knew there was a problem at NR when the founder died and his son (Christopher?) wrote an article that read like it belonged in The Nation.”
I guess that it’s kind of like Hollywood remakes of classic movies; CGI and digital magic replace the story. All fluff, no substance.
You are confusing John Derbyshire with Theodore Dalrymple.
My experience was completely different from yours.
Hell yeah~!!!! Just one of my favorite all time people!
Thanks so much for this photo!
Alright
He is sick now. Pray that he gets well again…the world needs him.
I don’t see what the big deal is. You’d probably get banned for posting his piece or something similar of FR.
Here it is:
http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#disqus_thread
Rev let the cat out of the bag.
;-)
Political correctness is a mental disorder. Brain damage caused by repeated, violet head nodding.
And we wonder why “conservative” Republicans have nothing to say about anything...
Another sickening capitulation from main stream "conservatives." NR, Fox, Breitbart are all falling in line nicely with the Regime's directives.
First they came for the mathematicians ...
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