I never mention any such thing.


"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:WKCgg.26391$ZW3.12835@dukeread04...
| I stated that freedom was lost in 1968.
|
| Yes, my post was in reply to Matt, who said the US ceased
to be a free
| country in 1864. (Similarly, the Civil War was the
earliest event Steven
| listed when asked to explain his remark that the US had
ceased to be a free
| country.)
|
| Also, I was not
| defending any "right-wing extremist" position. I did
| recount the interview and the answer that the author
made, I
| was not characterizing his answer to a question,
|
| You cited his extremist position (as you remembered it) in
support of an
| argument against reparations, and you cited it without any
expressed
| reservations. That context makes it an "approving
citation", as that term is
| ordinarily used. (But yes, merely arguing against
reparations is by no means
| an extremist or inherently racist position.)
|
| --Gary
|
|