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The speeches by Leland Stanford show a high resemblance to some of those by Abraham Lincoln of the same time period.  Lincoln and Stanford sought to gain credibility for their anti-slavery views by denying that they were advocating anything as "radical" as social equality for the races.  My students in the 21st century are often shocked to see just how many abolitionists spewed racist rhetoric.  Their public statements about race were often not very different than those of the pro-slavery forces. 

That was probably not the lesson that the Abbeville Institute, founded by Donald Livingston--a man who supports nullification, secession, and Southern political culture--wants us to draw.  Livingstone and his crowd hate Lincoln and the Republicans for destroying their "way of life" and creating modern American "big government" nationalism.  So yes, that piece is ironic and a poke at political correctness--but not necessarily in the way you think.  If its author is like the Institute's founder, he probably does hate Leland Stanford.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Secreti...Old/49337 

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The speeches by Leland Stanford show a high resemblance to some of those by Abraham Lincoln of the same time period.  Lincoln and Stanford sought to gain credibility for their anti-slavery views by denying that they were advocating anything as "radical" as social equality for the races.  My students in the 21st century are often shocked to see just how many abolitionists spewed racist rhetoric.  Their public statements about race were often not very different than those of the pro-slavery forces. 

That was probably not the lesson that the Abbeville Institute, founded by Donald Livingston--a man who supports nullification, secession, and Southern political culture--wants us to draw.  Livingstone and his crowd hate Lincoln and the Republicans for destroying their "way of life" and creating modern American "big government" nationalism.  So yes, that piece is ironic and a poke at political correctness--but not necessarily in the way you think.  If its author is like the Institute's founder, he probably does hate Leland Stanford.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Secreti...Old/49337