Redundant proof that Dinesh D'Souza is an idiot: hedonistic libertarians

This from the Official blog of the Libertarian Party [and what I want to know is why haven't we privatized it?]:

I celebrated Christmas yesterday with my family back home in South Carolina. While a seemingly innocuous event, my celebration of Christmas may come as a great shock to people like Dinesh D'Souza, because I am what you may call. . .a libertarian.

According to D'Souza, who recently blogged about Christopher Hitchens' appearance at a Reason magazine Christmas event, "many libertarians are basically conservatives who are either gay or druggies or people who generally find the conservative moral agenda too restrictive." Because D'Souza believes libertarians embrace "much wider parameters of personal behavior," he sees most libertarians as hedonistic atheists, and uses a tipsy Hitchens as the chief example of our disdain for morality.

As a devout Southern Baptist, I was taken aback. After all, I am neither gay nor a drug user, and consider myself to be very socially conservative. But such petty stereotypes demonstrate that the accuser has either a very tenuous understanding of the libertarian philosophy or is just stupid. In D'Souza's case, I would hope it is merely the first.

Sorry, I'm beyond giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Your link doesn't provide the proof that Dinesh D'Souza is an idiot. Its either out of date, or doesn't actually exist.

September 15, 2008 at 1:59 PM

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