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civil rights movement

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civil rights movement

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civil rights movement is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between July 08, 2022 and July 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “avoids commenting on the Vietnam War or the civil rights movement”; “The Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement”; “after the civil rights movement and Vietnam”. It most often appears alongside Congress, Watergate, France.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: July 08, 2022
  • Last seen: July 01, 2023

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Your Book Review: The Outlier
July 08, 2022 · Original source
In 1970 Carter runs for governor again. This time, however, he decides to do whatever it takes to win. He runs a sleazy campaign that flies in the face of his modern-day reputation as kindly and honest. His campaign strategy has two core planks: 1) pretend to be a racist to appeal to the masses, and 2) avoid taking a stand on any other issue. Carter describes himself nonsensically as a “conservative progressive” and avoids commenting on the Vietnam War or the civil rights movement. He’s so good at pretending to be racist that the white supremacist White Citizens Council endorses him. He even wins the endorsement of his old opponent, outgoing Governor Maddox, who’s term-limited from running again. As far as anyone can tell, Carter never expresses any second thoughts about his disingenuous behavior during the campaign. Having passed through his spiritual crisis, he’s now guided by an unshakeable faith in his own goodness—a faith that justifies a victory by any means necessary.
Your Book Review: Public Citizens
June 23, 2023 · Original source
Nader and his employees were pretty much all liberals. But they were a different kind of liberal than the ones who created the New Deal. The Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement (and, later, Watergate) had caused them to lose faith in government, and they were distrustful of so-called “experts” and of centralized power in general11. This distrust was why they operated through their own independent organizations, rather than by running for office or working with existing groups like the labor movement. Many of them were followers of the radical organizer Saul Alinsky, who emphasized an explanation for leadership failures that focused on structural issues, not individual choices. “Through experience,” he wrote, “you learn to see people not as sellouts and betrayers. [Morality is] largely a rationalization of the point you happen to occupy in the power pattern at a given time.”
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Your Book Review: Safe Enough?
July 01, 2023 · Original source
By the early 1970s, after the civil rights movement and Vietnam and with Watergate in full swing, the public was becoming jaded with Big People waving away concerns with Big Promises on the basis of little more than self-proclaimed expertise. And thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the public was close to accessing the details of what industry leaders actually knew. Big People recognized that this would not be an entirely good look.