02
Apr
2014
Colbert Responds to Demands for Cancellation
Not as good as Jon Stewart responding to Krugman, but still pretty funny.
Mises.org Daily Article RPM Feed
- UK Railways Are Reverting to the Disaster of State Ownership
- Countering the Neoconservative Defense of the British Empire
- Can There Be Justice Outside of the State? Yes
- On Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday: Kant’s Epistemology and Its Influence on Ludwig von Mises’s Praxeology
- We Need to Do with the State What We Have Done to Slavery
Mises.org Media Feed
- UK Railways Are Reverting to the Disaster of State Ownership
- Countering the Neoconservative Defense of the British Empire
- Can There Be Justice Outside of the State? Yes
- On Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday: Kant’s Epistemology and Its Influence on Ludwig von Mises’s Praxeology
- We Need to Do with the State What We Have Done to Slavery
This response? http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/8tl067/paul-krugman—the-trillion-dollar-coin
The second chief stumbling block “progressive” people have to Misesian economics is their belief that minorities and poor people are too stupid and helpless to survive without a lending hand from them via Mary Poppins, the Nanny State. Such a belief sounds pretty “racist” to me.
Such a belief sounds pretty “racist” to me.
It’s only racist if white people try to help:
Should We Want Movies Like Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-blankenship/should-we-want-movies-lik_b_293888.html
This movie is based on a true story. A rich white family really did adopt Michael Oher, a homeless black teenager, and eventually, he became an NFL star. In the real world, that’s very moving.
In the manipulated world of movie trailers, however, Oher’s story is a disturbing revival of the “benevolent white master” trope.
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In other words, the trailer begs us to feel sorry for black people and feel grateful that there are white people in the world who can take of them.