Comments on: Women just aren’t funny, while patriarchy is hilarious http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/26 Careful she bites Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:11:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andrew http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/26/comment-page-1#comment-19 Andrew Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:04:27 +0000 http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/?p=26#comment-19 I've seen people before use libertarianism as little more than an excuse to rail against the government whenever it suggests that perhaps they might like to stop acting like dicks. How dare they interfere, they cry. I thought this was a free country, let me get on with restricting the freedoms of this minority whose views are irrelevant.<br /><br />I can see the point of libertarianism, but it's laughably naive in what it expects of people to make it work. I've seen people before use libertarianism as little more than an excuse to rail against the government whenever it suggests that perhaps they might like to stop acting like dicks. How dare they interfere, they cry. I thought this was a free country, let me get on with restricting the freedoms of this minority whose views are irrelevant.

I can see the point of libertarianism, but it's laughably naive in what it expects of people to make it work.

]]> By: graimito http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/26/comment-page-1#comment-16 graimito Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:14:20 +0000 http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/?p=26#comment-16 A friend sent me a link to a sp!ked article, on climate change I think, and it was ridiculous. Retreading the same, tired, undermined-a-thousand-times arguments, making some pseudo-marxist points about the west using climate change to keep down the industrial development of the developing world (Really? That's weird, because most of the people I know working in climate change issues are development researchers...).<br /><br />Anyway, I was put off sp!ked having read a few articles. Smug, reactionary, thoughtless crap, largely.<br /><br />Good article, this. Wish I could see your stuff published in a Ben Goldacre style column.<br /><br />G A friend sent me a link to a sp!ked article, on climate change I think, and it was ridiculous. Retreading the same, tired, undermined-a-thousand-times arguments, making some pseudo-marxist points about the west using climate change to keep down the industrial development of the developing world (Really? That's weird, because most of the people I know working in climate change issues are development researchers…).

Anyway, I was put off sp!ked having read a few articles. Smug, reactionary, thoughtless crap, largely.

Good article, this. Wish I could see your stuff published in a Ben Goldacre style column.

G

]]> By: Toby - Northern Light Blog http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/26/comment-page-1#comment-15 Toby - Northern Light Blog Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:57:56 +0000 http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/?p=26#comment-15 Hi. You do know Spiked Online's genesis out the "Living Marxism" magazine? It would be nice to say they are just nutters - but they're worse than that. The magazine got closed down after they libelled Ed Vulliamy and ITN. Normally when libel laws get used against small publications you have sympathy for the underdog - but LM had published an article saying the reports on concentration camps in Bosnia had been faked. They shilled for Milosovic throughout the Bosnian war. Both weird and very not nice. Hi. You do know Spiked Online's genesis out the "Living Marxism" magazine? It would be nice to say they are just nutters – but they're worse than that. The magazine got closed down after they libelled Ed Vulliamy and ITN. Normally when libel laws get used against small publications you have sympathy for the underdog – but LM had published an article saying the reports on concentration camps in Bosnia had been faked. They shilled for Milosovic throughout the Bosnian war. Both weird and very not nice.

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