Out of curiosity, How much support for Apartheid does the Articulate supporter of Apartheid have to show?
For instance, when Margaret Thatcher died recently, I found out that she considered by some to be a supporter of Apartheid and I remembered that I had just read this David Friedman point recently.
If I am reading the wikipedia link correctly, it contains a fair portrayal of Margaret Thatcher’s Apartheid Policies that doesn’t summarize well.
However, if I were to attempt to summarize it anyway, It would be something along the lines of: “I’m not Pro-Apartheid, it’s just that I refuse to institute Economic Sanctions on the Apartheid government, reject the Anti-Apartheid movement several times because they include many Violent Terrorists, and don’t mind inviting the president of the Apartheid government to meet with me over the objections of Anti-Apartheid as a way of encouraging reform.”
In the press, this gets abbreviated to: “Margaret Thatcher … famously labeled Nelson Mandela a “terrorist” while backing South Africa’s apartheid regime.”
So if someone comes up to me and has on their resume “I worked in the Margaret Thatcher administration as a policy writer.” And it comes up in the interview that they agree with all of Margaret Thatcher’s policy decisions, and I hire them for intellectual diversity because I don’t have a supporter of Thatcherism on staff, am I hiring a articulate supporter of South African Apartheid as per the Friedman hypothetical, or not? It seems the press would say yes, and the person themselves would say no.
I’m still having a hard time actually answering the question because I feel like I don’t have enough details about the remaining candidates or the makeup of my university, but thinking of a specific type of person does help make the question less vague.
Out of curiosity, How much support for Apartheid does the Articulate supporter of Apartheid have to show?
For instance, when Margaret Thatcher died recently, I found out that she considered by some to be a supporter of Apartheid and I remembered that I had just read this David Friedman point recently.
If I am reading the wikipedia link correctly, it contains a fair portrayal of Margaret Thatcher’s Apartheid Policies that doesn’t summarize well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiership_of_Margaret_Thatcher#Apartheid
However, if I were to attempt to summarize it anyway, It would be something along the lines of: “I’m not Pro-Apartheid, it’s just that I refuse to institute Economic Sanctions on the Apartheid government, reject the Anti-Apartheid movement several times because they include many Violent Terrorists, and don’t mind inviting the president of the Apartheid government to meet with me over the objections of Anti-Apartheid as a way of encouraging reform.”
In the press, this gets abbreviated to: “Margaret Thatcher … famously labeled Nelson Mandela a “terrorist” while backing South Africa’s apartheid regime.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/8/margaret_thatcher_1925_2013_tariq_ali
So if someone comes up to me and has on their resume “I worked in the Margaret Thatcher administration as a policy writer.” And it comes up in the interview that they agree with all of Margaret Thatcher’s policy decisions, and I hire them for intellectual diversity because I don’t have a supporter of Thatcherism on staff, am I hiring a articulate supporter of South African Apartheid as per the Friedman hypothetical, or not? It seems the press would say yes, and the person themselves would say no.
I’m still having a hard time actually answering the question because I feel like I don’t have enough details about the remaining candidates or the makeup of my university, but thinking of a specific type of person does help make the question less vague.