{"id":3956,"date":"2010-05-20T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2010-05-20T22:12:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:12:53","slug":"too-ignorant-to-be-embarrassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/05\/20\/too-ignorant-to-be-embarrassed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[T]oo ignorant to be embarrassed.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TNC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/05\/the-proud-ignorance-of-rand-paul\/56995\/\">nails<\/a> an essential part of the Libertarianism that seems to be so popular these days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> and he&#8217;s got a strong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2010\/05\/making-the-argument\/57044\/\">follow-up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I&#8217;m driving at is raising the question about methods is never wrong, to the contrary it&#8217;s essential. That process is undermined by people who raise those questions, without having thought about them, without being able to speak to their\u00c2\u00a0nuances, and are mostly concerned with tribal signaling. People were dragged from their homes, raped and murdered over civil rights. Talk about it, by all means. But talk about it with the intellectual seriousness it deserves.This is not a third grade science fair project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TNC nails an essential part of the Libertarianism that seems to be so popular these days. Update: and he&#8217;s got a strong follow-up: What I&#8217;m driving at is raising the question about methods is never wrong, to the contrary it&#8217;s essential. 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