Evil and Stupidity (RE: [lbo-talk] Imputing motive

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 29 09:06:55 PDT 2006


On Sep 29, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Angelus Novus wrote:


>
>> Rightwingers are evil or stupid. All the rest is
>> commentary.
>
>
> If this is true, then social relationships would be
> transparent, and there would be no need for critique.

But it's not true. A lot of rightwingers - from Hayek to Fox News - aren't stupid. And quite a few aren't "evil" either. I don't like the politics of the people around Reason magazine, but they're all decent and quite talented.

Doug



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