This is from The Reivers, by William Faulkner. Can someone explain the origins of the highlighted lines?
>>25177944Eleanor Roosevelt campaigned for anti-segregation, the Citizens Council was a white nationalist group.Barry Goldwater was one of the very very few adamantly pro-pornography politicians the US (or anywhere else, really) has had, the ADA was an organization trying to ban pornography.It's just simple opposites.
The Citizens' Council and Barry Goldwater were both against the Civil Rights Act. Eleanor Roosevelt and the ADA were both for it.
>>25177957I assumed it was the porn angle, but actually yeah given when it was written you're right it would've been the other ADA.
>>25177956>Barry Goldwater was one of the very very few adamantly pro-pornography politicians the USSource? I've never heard this before
>>25177967He swung hard libertarian in the '80s. Pushed through the laws that granted cable operators immunity from obscenity prosecutions and limited their editorial control of channel content. Went pro-gay and pro-marijuana too. Told Jerry Falwell once that he deserved a swift kick in the nuts.
>>25177984Huh, interesting. Though it definitely can't be relevant to The Reivers.
>>25177956>>25177957>>25177957Thank you for the context.
