On Tuesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan discusses how the Left keeps promoting racism and why American conservatism is an inherently anti-racist idea. Video and partial transcript below:
The idea of racism only becomes an issue when you create a country that is defined by something new — it’s not defined by territories, not defined by the area that you can communicate with — it is defined by an idea. It is held upon a certain piece of land and that land is ultimately defined by how much of it is under our control, and by natural borders and natural coastlines, and all that stuff. But who becomes part of that country is who ascribes to the ideas under which the country is founded. And that’s when racism becomes an issue, because suddenly you and the Irish guy next to you — or the Italian guy next to you or the black guy next to you — suddenly, you are countrymen. You are not just, you know, people of of basically the same race, basically the same kind, living on an island or living in a nation based on the people who’ve conquered that place. You are there ascribing to an idea together, and that’s when racism becomes a problem. It is essentially an uptown problem like everything else.
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