Damon Root reviews the racist history of American labor unions.
Meanwhile, also at H&R, Jacob Sullum defends Antonin Scalia’s libertarian bona fides.
Filed under: miscellany
July 3, 2008 • 1:19 pm
Damon Root reviews the racist history of American labor unions.
Meanwhile, also at H&R, Jacob Sullum defends Antonin Scalia’s libertarian bona fides.
Filed under: miscellany
Just as an aside, I don’t think anyone (at least no one I’ve ever encountered) has ever claimed that the Left doesn’t have a history of racism.
Perhaps. But the fact is that there are plenty of people on the Left who use the brush of racism to tar the entire history of the Right – that’s what I was alluding to.
Ah, fair enough.
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