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Keynes Was Gay -- Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
National Review Online ^ | May 4, 2013 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 05/05/2013 1:31:51 PM PDT by Yardstick

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Goldberg defends the point about Keynes's gay childlessness, which limited his time horizon to the present.

Followup from Mark Steyn here.

1 posted on 05/05/2013 1:31:51 PM PDT by Yardstick
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If these gays would just shut their mouths and go away...no one would say a thing.

We're sick of you soliciting our kids.

2 posted on 05/05/2013 1:34:23 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Yardstick

Certainly, being childless, can reduce your sense of the future.


3 posted on 05/05/2013 1:35:02 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Yardstick

He was also a pederast. What we today call a pedophile.


4 posted on 05/05/2013 1:36:19 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Yardstick

It’s all about his quote, “In the long run we’re all dead.”


5 posted on 05/05/2013 1:40:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Exactly right. It has a different meaning when you don’t have kids and grandkids etc.


6 posted on 05/05/2013 1:42:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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So Keynes believed that Puritan values inclined people to embrace an economic theory (capitalism), but the Ferguson episode teaches us that it is now beyond outrageous to suggest that Keynes’s rejection of Puritan values inclined him to embrace a slightly different economic theory (Keynesianism)? Got it.

Its silly to maintain that Keynes' values had no effect on his value system. Its just silly to say.

Most of the people defending his value system in fact agree with his value system. Big surprise.

7 posted on 05/05/2013 1:42:59 PM PDT by marron
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I don’t give a carp if he was homosexual or not. Millions have suffered because of his wrong-headed theories.


8 posted on 05/05/2013 1:44:08 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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That is Goldberg’s point exactly. He has put his finger on the inconsistency of Keynes’s modern opponents. They want to make it off limits to correlate his values with his value system when it is simply natural — and hugely explanatory — to do so.


9 posted on 05/05/2013 1:47:41 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Steely Tom
e was also a pederast. What we today call a pedophile.

Do you mean Kinsey instead of Keynes?

10 posted on 05/05/2013 1:49:19 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Yardstick

Is it more revealing that deviant examples of human nature always show up in the left’s political ‘philosophy’, or that so many people fall for it..


11 posted on 05/05/2013 1:50:31 PM PDT by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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Whoops, typo.

Not Keynes's modern opponents but his modern defenders.

12 posted on 05/05/2013 1:55:54 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Cyber Liberty

Being homosexual makes people wrong-headed about so much else in their lives? How many other bad decisions have they made?

Who knew?


13 posted on 05/05/2013 1:56:18 PM PDT by alloysteel (Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.)
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Being homosexual makes people wrong-headed about so much else in their lives? How many other bad decisions have they made?

I ain't goin' there.

14 posted on 05/05/2013 1:59:19 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Yardstick

I agree with the above posters. These homosexual apologists want to make criticism of Keynes’s economic theories off limits because he was a homosexual. This is non-syllogistic reasoning - not that there is anything wrong with that.


15 posted on 05/05/2013 2:05:59 PM PDT by quantumman
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To: WXRGina
Do you mean Kinsey instead of Keynes?

John Maynard Keynes was a pedophile. He admits in his own notes to having sex with young teenage boys. Furthermore. he went on holidays with another Bloomsbury homosexual named Lytton Strachey to northern Africa fleshpots *Tangiers, Cairo, etc., where, as he put it in his letters, ‘bed and boy are inexpensive.’

16 posted on 05/05/2013 2:06:09 PM PDT by Old North State
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The success of any species depends on the propensity to procreate and in a species as complex as humans a trait to nurture and care for the helpless newborns even if providing for them causes the parent deprivation. According to Darwinian law those with traits they do not lead to successful procreation are gradually eliminated since their consumption of resources inhibits the survival of a species. From an evolutionary perspective not only is homosexuality not normal but left to natural selection does not have much of a future or concern for the future. Homosexuality has far more to do with social imprinting (eg childhood rape, seduction, abnormal family dynamic etc )than any purported genetic cause.


17 posted on 05/05/2013 2:06:55 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Old North State

Ah, okay. It’s not surprising.

I don’t know much about Keynes, and I thought the name was very close to Kinsey, who was also a pervert of the highest order.


18 posted on 05/05/2013 2:09:59 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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Not That There's Anything Wrong With That

.. other than biological suicide, ya mean ?

Of course, with a cheerleading fellatio corps (enemedia), spineless slugs like the BSA national cretins, the pandemic of PC appeasers, etal, etal faggot recruitment/victimization is likely at an all time high.

19 posted on 05/05/2013 2:10:25 PM PDT by tomkat
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“Before heaven we claimed to be our own judge in our own case.”

As good a definition of Evil as exists.


20 posted on 05/05/2013 2:15:08 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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