Re: We should kick this guy's ass

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Well, he is certainly committed to the cause. I doubt anyone would pay attention to him otherwise.


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 4:30 PM
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Many other people have similar stories of woe. Why, Lee Siegel has almost had to go into hiding after some anonymous prankster stole everything in his house and replaced it with an exact replica.


Posted by: Sprezzatura | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 4:38 PM
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Anscombe deserves better, and little shits that make up stories about being assaulted for their ideology need to be strung up in the town square that I might heave rocks at them.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 4:43 PM
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that just proves that some people will go to great lengths, I guess.

It took this to prove to Insty that some people will go to great lengths for the Republican cause? Not the pointless impeachment, the bogus Supreme Court decision in a stolen election, or the apparently pointless war? Not the erosion of civil liberties, the contempt for constitutional procedure, not the ... well, the general contempt? But a kid smacking himself around.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 4:56 PM
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Analytic philosophy. Need I say more?


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:07 PM
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Robert George is not an analytic philosopher.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:09 PM
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He also has a BA from...Swarthmore! He must be a fascist.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:16 PM
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Today I did my quarterly scroll through Instapundit. He claimed near the top to have been suspicious of the student's claims after it turned out to be false, but then lower down on the page, he used the (not yet falsified) story as part of one of his running gags, evincing no skepticism whatsoever.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:20 PM
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I am Jack's total lack of surprise.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:23 PM
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Actually, Instapundit says

the concussion made a hoax seem unlikely, but that just proves that some people will go to great lengths the hospital after making a false report of an assault.


Posted by: mano negra | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:28 PM
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Wow, I just somehow managed to unfairly malign the Instapundit.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:33 PM
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Well, you can be forgiven since he takes pains to smugly say that most hate crimes are hoaxes (especially the ones reported by liberals and the blacks).


Posted by: mano negra | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:40 PM
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Also not to be missed is the assertion that a guy going to the hospital and saying he got a concussion is credible evidence of a hate crime, while a noose left on a person's door is totally not evidence. Anyone could have tied that noose!


Posted by: mano negra | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:43 PM
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It's still unclear whether he was even injured, thanks to some terribly bad campus journalism. The first article about the incident never confirmed that he actually went to the hospital.


Posted by: destroyer | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:44 PM
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Also, no one gives a shit about the Anscombe Society. The pro-life group always steals their thunder, with events like "Liberal Reasons to Support Abortion."


Posted by: destroyer | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 5:46 PM
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Princeton's a weird place. It's an Ivy League school with essentially none of the professional-school paraphernalia that comes with most schools of its status (Law, Medicine, Business), a small undergrad population, a much smaller grad student presence, and it dominates the twee little town it's located in. None of this does much good for the undergrads there.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 6:10 PM
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Don't forget the eating clubs, giving out alcohol three nights a week for free.


Posted by: destroyer | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 6:15 PM
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16: "Oh, come now. You wanted to be Krusty's sidekick since you were five! What about the buffoon lessons? The four years at clown college?" "I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way."


Posted by: water moccasin | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 6:22 PM
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16/17: I think I turned out just fine, thanks.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 6:36 PM
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I feel compelled to note that there *are* a lot of fake hate crimes.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:00 PM
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Yeah, like this one.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:00 PM
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Could we get some stats on the fake hate crime thing?


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:04 PM
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Fake stats, sure.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:07 PM
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I don't know what to believe anymore.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:11 PM
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Isn't it your job to figure that belief stuff out?


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:13 PM
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I'm still in training.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:17 PM
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The best thing about this story? Sherif don't like it: Former Anscombe president Sherif Girgis '08 said he is "deeply angry and upset" at the news the incident was fabricated.

I've never actually read Instapundit.


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:17 PM
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Anscombe deserves better

Snark, or recognizing that the defense of conservative sexual mores ought to be respectable?

Went to their site: goes a lot further than I can sympathize with.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 7:26 PM
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Ah, the Anscombe Society. I thought criticizing the availability of rape kits was bad, but its members just keep finding new lows.


Posted by: Amber | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:02 PM
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Wow. When I was an undergrad, back in the 1990s, we didn't need a society to explain to us how not to have sex. My friends and I were perfectly capable of not getting laid on our own.


Posted by: ed bowlinger | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:25 PM
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I'm still curious whether Cala was somewhat sympathetic.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:28 PM
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31: I think Cala meant that the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, a student of Wittgenstein's, deserved better than the eponymously named society.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:33 PM
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I think she means the philosopher Anscombe (is that the namesake of the society, as FL suggests?) deserves to have a much better society named after her.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:34 PM
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Great minds think alike, and so do we.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:34 PM
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31: To the society or to Elizabeth? I'm a big fan of her Modern Moral Philosophy, though it goes wrong in various ways.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:34 PM
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It seems very lame and wrong-headed, to be sure.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:36 PM
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I think Princeton is the only Ivy to have seen an alumnus go on to draw the X-Men and found Image Comics, so it's got that going for it.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:37 PM
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31: I think Cala was expressing the sentiment that Elizabeth Anscombe, the namesake of the club, deserves better than to have her name associated with these bozos.


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:40 PM
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Multi-pwned. Gotta learn to type faster.


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:41 PM
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oudemia, Ned, and zadfrack have me right, though I should add that I am probably a little sympathetic to idiots beating themselves about the head (though not with the rest of his moronic nonsense.) Would that we could will it universally! Political speeches would be much more fun with self-flagellation.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:42 PM
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33: From their web site:

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret (G.E.M., or Elizabeth) Anscombe (1919-2001), a student and literary executor of Wittgenstein, was a British analytic philosopher -- according to some, the 20th century's greatest. Her 1957 book Intention, on the role of reasoning in human action, has become a modern classic; her penetrating analysis of traditional sexual ethics in a 1977 essay "Contraception and Chastity" displays the rigor of her moral reasoning and the vigor of her defense of family values. A highly regarded Cambridge professor, wife, and mother of seven, she was chosen as our namesake for her unabashed dedication to the life of the mind and to marriage and family in her life and work.


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:43 PM
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"a British analytic philosopher -- according to some, the 20th century's greatest"

Okay, I'm all for giving Anscombe her due, but that's stretching it a bit.


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:47 PM
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She did so much more than talk about contraception! You should be learning this at Princeton! Beat yourself more, child!


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:49 PM
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"According to some" is doing a lot of work, zadfrack.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 8:53 PM
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G.E.M. is truly outrageous
Truly, truly, truly outrageous


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 12-17-07 10:03 PM
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Anscombe, the philosopher, was a pretty nasty piece of work, too. But I wonder if the Anscombe Society bothers protesting the Iraq war since one thing Anscombe the philosopher did do was make a big stink about what she took to be war crimes and unjust war. She certainly would have thought the Iraq war unjustified and full of war crimes. She didn't merely protest against contraception and in front of abortion clinics, after all.


Posted by: Matt | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 8:12 AM
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her penetrating analysis of traditional sexual ethics

*giggles*


Posted by: Lambent Cactus | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 11:04 AM
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I'm shocked took 14 hours and 21 minutes for someone to post 47.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 6:30 PM
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