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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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From: TimF7/13/2017 11:35:31 AM
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Amazon review of new book claiming that James Buchanan was a racist and thus trying to tar conservatives who have similar views as racist

I rarely put up book reviews that I have posted on Amazon.com, but this new book. "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America," so incenses me that I wanted to put a link here. The claim is essentially that since Buchanan supported school choice that was a way of hurting blacks in public schools. It is bizarre that so many liberals have absolutely no idea what motivates people on the other side of the debate. I hope that this review gets listed at the top of the reviews on this book.

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it was his concern that black children were getting a poor quality education, June 22, 2017
By John R. Lott Jr.

This review is from: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (Hardcover)
I have only read a review of this book in the Atlantic and looked through parts of it that are available online here (about 70 pages), but I knew James Buchanan and he was not a racist and the evidence that provided is bizarrely circumstantial. To see evil in a man who pushed for school choice and letting people have choices in their lives is not the Jim that I knew. If Jim's push for school choice had anything to do with race, it was his concern that black children were getting a poor quality education. That is the only mention that I heard him make regarding race and schooling. This book’s author doesn't understand much about the people that she disagrees with.

To say that James Buchanan was trying to produce a "nonracial case for maintaining Jim Crow in a new form” is equally bizarre and troubling. Likewise, linking up Jim to the Chilean government is disturbing, just as it was for people to link Milton Friedman. Just because some of your writings influences someone doesn't make you responsible for them doing completely unrelated actions.

?As with conspiracy theorists generally, this book attributes too much influence to historical events to Jim and it sees all sorts of innocent actions, such as support for school choice, through a very biased lens.

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