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I first became aware of Noel Ignatiev (then known as Noel Ignatin) during the crackup of the New Left ca. 1968 or 1969. At the final conference of sds (Students for a Democratic Society) in Chicago in ...
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THAT is NOT a "racist," "white supremacist" government, it is a government of ALL the people. And it doesn't give special ...