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ProperGanderPusher posted:Why yes, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, I *do* happen to have a bunch of money just sitting around to finance a whole year of loving off in another country. Also, it should indeed be totally mandatory for everyone. I wanted to go to Chile to do immersion and history research in undergrad but I guess I'm a provincial American because I didn't have 8000 to spend on top of my to increasing every year tuition. Probably should have took out more loans so that Kristof could write an op ed piece next week about American students blowing student loan money on luxuries like "eating food" and trips abroad.
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The freakonomics theory always sounded pretty hardcore (though not intentionally) racist/classist to me. Especially since 'overpopulation' isn't an issue with developed economies but the opposite.
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VitalSigns posted:Even gold-star gays don't go around telling women at the gym to shut up about sex because the female body makes them uncomfortable; nor make a big show of pretending as hard as possible not to get any heterosexual sex joke ever because they've never experienced such a thing. "Ahem, m'ladies, please do not make jokes I do not understand for while I may appear on the outside to be an adult to you, I am actually a child. You see, I was at this carnival in Jersey and there was this gypsy fortune teller machine and..."
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KomradeX posted:Wait so futbal is also fascist? (I didn't read the article as the National Review sends me into sputtering fits of rage.) Yes, probably.
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Zeroisanumber posted:That's not Yeah, it isn't a new thing: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5176177
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at all, that's good-old all-American nativism. That whole "immigrants are foreign and probably bring disease! 
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Radish posted:The fact that you can publish that and it doesn't result in headlines saying "Guy defends slave owners WTF??" on news channels or papers pretty much disproves the concept of "political correctness" censuring conservative opinions. Its gotten attention from certain outlets but a book review in the Economist is probably not going to get round the clock coverage from CNN.
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Phlegmish posted:He's an idiot for claiming that slave owners had an incentive to treat their slaves well and implying that 'it wasn't so bad', but I'd say he's right to dismiss the notion that slavery is responsible for the success of American capitalism. It benefited the people that were directly involved, but on a societal level and in the long term it was a completely disastrous economic system. It's detrimental effects can be seen in the South even today. Capital raised by slavery in the South was able to be turned into capital to be loaned out in the North by banks for infrastructure and investment.
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Praetorian West sighed as he drew his gladius.
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