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| − | {{DES | des = A weak philosophical propagandist who claims to argue from "commonsense moral principles". Is this really any better than Steven Colbert (or Nietzsche) going with his gut? Likes deleting other's comments in [[Bleeding Heart Libertarians]] blog. | show=}} | + | {{DES | des = A weak philosophical propagandist who claims to argue from "commonsense moral principles". Is this really any better than Steven Colbert (or Nietzsche) going with his gut? Likes deleting other's comments in [[Bleeding Heart Libertarians]] blog, which he is responsible for ending. | show=}} |
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| + | "The explanation for BHL’s ending is, I think, more personal, or person-oriented than is suggested by appeal to ideological fracture or disagreement. I think it became clear after awhile that Jason Brennan had hijacked the blog for his own rhetorical purposes. And his discursive behavior on the blog became increasingly unhinged and childish. Who but Brennan claims the right to write a blog post, entertain criticism, then delete the criticism, but change the post to respond to it after the fact? Who goes around bragging about how many fist fights they’ve fought or won? Who makes random accusations for weeks on end–and then, on encountering push-back from the accused–deletes the post in question without a word, as though nothing had happened? Etc. Just a small sample. Eventually, Brennan had begun to turn BHL into his personal freak show. It was embarrassing." | ||
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| + | "Once he started up his pandemic polemics, it became clear to the other BHL bloggers that Brennan had become a liability to them. Like a lot of things, the pandemic had divided libertarians. Brennan was in the anti-lockdown camp, but plenty of other libertarians were in the pro-lockdown camp. It wasn’t enough for Brennan to criticize those with whom he disagreed; it never was. No, Jason had to haul out the most rhetorically extravagant insults he could find and bludgeon his opponents over the head with them, day in and day out. It was Madjunct controversy continued, with epidemiologists standing in for the Madjuncts. Success would only be achieved if the people on the other side were made to look like cowering, morally reprobate, freedom hating, and above all methodologically bankrupt idiots. Only by making the last of those claims could Jason show his quantitative skills off to anyone apt to be impressed by them." | ||
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| + | "The whole thing started generating a few cringes, then more than few, then a few too many. Since (I suppose) the principals couldn’t or didn’t want the fuss involved in kicking him off the blog, they decided to end the blog itself. And the rest is history. For once, Great Man History actually has explanatory value." | ||
| + | [https://crookedtimber.org/2020/06/09/broken-hearts/#comment-801479 Source.] | ||
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