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To: miraje who wrote (98892)	2/6/2005 3:32:15 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793759

happening right now here in Las Vegas: Classic example. If it's on the right, it's "hate speech."

To: miraje who wrote (98892)	2/6/2005 11:06:13 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793759

<<Hoppe said that, at the request of university officials, he clarified in his next class that he was speaking in generalities only and did not mean to offend anyone. As an example of what he meant, he offered this: Italians tend to eat more spaghetti than Germans, and Germans tend to eat more sauerkraut than Italians. It is not universally true, he said, but it is generally true.>> This is framed as a free speech issue. I think it's more an education issue. Students who have problems with such statement should be sent either to remedial training in problem solving or to a shrink.

To: miraje who wrote (98892)	2/6/2005 11:27:22 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793759

The allegation that homosexuals don't plan for the future strikes me as more pseudo-science masquerading as science. And saying that Keynes' economics were colored by his homosexuality is just plain bizarre. How, pray tell, does heterosexuality affect economics? Does it make a difference whether the economist is a virgin, or married and faithful to his wife? What if the economist is a serial philanderer? Or fancies sheep? Or engages in group sex? But worse is characterizing Keyne's monetary philosophy as "spend it now." Keynes said the government should spend money during a recession, and save money during a boom, to act as a counterweight to market forces and keep them from destabilizing the monetary system. To call countercyclicalism "spend it now" seems extraordinarily ignorant for a Ph.D. economist.