The 60s had many of the same issues we have today, but the propaganda was less aggressive. Racist was a power word then too, as demonstrated by Buckley berating people to his right, such as Enoch Powell, for racism. Race War In High School is a taboo—and now very expensive—book about busing at Franklin K Lane High School in NYC, where ghetto kids were setting teachers on fire and no one wanted to do anything about it for fear of being called racist. Now that the original civil rights paradigm has successfully dismantled any oppositional power structures, it has progressed to overt suppression of whites. It's an example of Deleuzian territorial being leveraged for Jouvenelian high-low vs middle power consolidation using a racial framework.
Propaganda had to be less aggressive due to where society was at the time. That's how salami tactics work.
Around the same time Ulhura was kissing Kirk, my grandfather was telling my mother he would disown her for dating/marrying a black (definitely not the word he used but the word she used when telling the story). And my grandfather was just a normal guy for his time; a WWII vet who probably would have been in the 90% who would have preferred to lose the War than end segregation.
The 90% sounds dubious. But now they call people far more non-racist than your grandfather "Nazis" and compare themselves to the folks who landed at Normandy for attacking them.
If they actually met WWII veteran, they wouldn't like them much. But most are safely dead, so... up they go as a mascot.
The question is not why Enoch Powell was accused of racism.
The question is why policies contrary to what he stated were pushed through, even though the vast majority of people agreed with him, in a supposed 'democracy'.
The 60s had many of the same issues we have today, but the propaganda was less aggressive. Racist was a power word then too, as demonstrated by Buckley berating people to his right, such as Enoch Powell, for racism. Race War In High School is a taboo—and now very expensive—book about busing at Franklin K Lane High School in NYC, where ghetto kids were setting teachers on fire and no one wanted to do anything about it for fear of being called racist. Now that the original civil rights paradigm has successfully dismantled any oppositional power structures, it has progressed to overt suppression of whites. It's an example of Deleuzian territorial being leveraged for Jouvenelian high-low vs middle power consolidation using a racial framework.
Propaganda had to be less aggressive due to where society was at the time. That's how salami tactics work.
Around the same time Ulhura was kissing Kirk, my grandfather was telling my mother he would disown her for dating/marrying a black (definitely not the word he used but the word she used when telling the story). And my grandfather was just a normal guy for his time; a WWII vet who probably would have been in the 90% who would have preferred to lose the War than end segregation.
The 90% sounds dubious. But now they call people far more non-racist than your grandfather "Nazis" and compare themselves to the folks who landed at Normandy for attacking them.
If they actually met WWII veteran, they wouldn't like them much. But most are safely dead, so... up they go as a mascot.
The propaganda of the time wasn't necessarily less aggressive, just less obvious because the propagandists were far more competent.
The question is not why Enoch Powell was accused of racism.
The question is why policies contrary to what he stated were pushed through, even though the vast majority of people agreed with him, in a supposed 'democracy'.
To ask the question is to answer it.