Comments for Matthew Hurtt http://matthewhurtt.com "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." - Ronald Reagan Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on When discrimination is acceptable… by jasonjohn http://matthewhurtt.com/when-discrimination-is-acceptable/comment-page-1/#comment-6670 jasonjohn Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:59:16 +0000 http://matthewhurtt.com/?p=3072#comment-6670 BOOHOO! Campfield gets booted out of a Restaurant for his actions, yes ACTIONS, as a state senator and all of the sudden the Left is just as bad as the Right. Yes, hmm, the Left invented Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Virginia Slave Codes, yes, hmm, hmm, just as bad. No wonder you're a libertarian. BOOHOO!

Campfield gets booted out of a Restaurant for his actions, yes ACTIONS, as a state senator and all of the sudden the Left is just as bad as the Right.

Yes, hmm, the Left invented Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Virginia Slave Codes, yes, hmm, hmm, just as bad.

No wonder you’re a libertarian.

]]> Comment on When discrimination is acceptable… by Matt http://matthewhurtt.com/when-discrimination-is-acceptable/comment-page-1/#comment-6669 Matt Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:26:03 +0000 http://matthewhurtt.com/?p=3072#comment-6669 The stuff that Stacy Campfield said about AIDS is not a difference of opinion, and the owner said that his comments about AIDS was part of the reason that she kicked him out. Here are the comments I speak of. "Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community -- it was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall." "My understanding is that it is virtually -- not completely, but virtually -- impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex...very rarely [transmitted]." "What's the average lifespan of a homosexual? it's very short. Google it yourself." 1. The "screwing a money" thing has NO basis in reality, it's a blatant lie and attempted smear to equate gays with bestiality. It is simply irresponsible as an elected official to spread unsubstantiated lies like this 2. The airline pilot is Gaeton Dugas who was shown to be connected to a few early AIDS cases in the US. He didn't bring AIDS from Africa, he was not "patient zero," and he was not the first AIDS case in the US. This stuff was disproved in like 1983. 3. It is apparently "virtually impossible" to get AIDS from heterosexual contact, aside from those 20+ million heterosexual Africans who are dead from AIDS among numerous others. 4. The lifespan comments are from a study done by Paul Cameron who was discredited LONG ago. The stuff that Stacy Campfield said about AIDS is not a difference of opinion, and the owner said that his comments about AIDS was part of the reason that she kicked him out. Here are the comments I speak of.

“Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community — it was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall.”

“My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex…very rarely [transmitted].”

“What’s the average lifespan of a homosexual? it’s very short. Google it yourself.”

1. The “screwing a money” thing has NO basis in reality, it’s a blatant lie and attempted smear to equate gays with bestiality. It is simply irresponsible as an elected official to spread unsubstantiated lies like this

2. The airline pilot is Gaeton Dugas who was shown to be connected to a few early AIDS cases in the US. He didn’t bring AIDS from Africa, he was not “patient zero,” and he was not the first AIDS case in the US. This stuff was disproved in like 1983.
3. It is apparently “virtually impossible” to get AIDS from heterosexual contact, aside from those 20+ million heterosexual Africans who are dead from AIDS among numerous others.
4. The lifespan comments are from a study done by Paul Cameron who was discredited LONG ago.

]]> Comment on When discrimination is acceptable… by Dave2 http://matthewhurtt.com/when-discrimination-is-acceptable/comment-page-1/#comment-6668 Dave2 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:07:57 +0000 http://matthewhurtt.com/?p=3072#comment-6668 Liberals agree with the Civil Rights Act that it's legitimate for public accommodations to discriminate by political beliefs, but not to discriminate by race, sex, etc. There's nothing inconsistent or hypocritical about that. In any case, shopowners who kick out known Stalinists are certainly more likeable than shopowners who kick out blacks or gays. Liberals agree with the Civil Rights Act that it’s legitimate for public accommodations to discriminate by political beliefs, but not to discriminate by race, sex, etc. There’s nothing inconsistent or hypocritical about that. In any case, shopowners who kick out known Stalinists are certainly more likeable than shopowners who kick out blacks or gays.

]]> Comment on When discrimination is acceptable… by cbpooh http://matthewhurtt.com/when-discrimination-is-acceptable/comment-page-1/#comment-6667 cbpooh Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:50:47 +0000 http://matthewhurtt.com/?p=3072#comment-6667 I have indeed read the Fountainhead. The theme is selfish interest. Roark's selfish interest is that his vision is preserved. When he builds a building for another man who decides to change it, he throws a fit and blows it up. This selfishness manifests itself in this discussion in Matthew's statement about how one man's buck is just as good as any others. I pointed out that in the South in the 50s, it was indeed in that selfish interest to deny service to blacks. What society came to understand that it simply could not be left up to private businesses i n the South to come to the correct conclusion that excluding people from your establishment because they were of a different skin color was wrong. We realized that trying to live in a community where you had to walk past 10 restaurants with signs that say "No Blacks" to get to one that would accept you, we weren't living in a free society at all. The balance of the dehumanizing and segregating effects it had on the black population versus the property rights of the proprietors of the businesses clearly favored the interests of blacks not being 2nd class citizens. Libertarians would do well to see the massive expansion of liberty for blacks in society and reject the idea that land owners should be able to just do whatever they wish regardless of whom they discriminate against. I have indeed read the Fountainhead. The theme is selfish interest. Roark’s selfish interest is that his vision is preserved. When he builds a building for another man who decides to change it, he throws a fit and blows it up. This selfishness manifests itself in this discussion in Matthew’s statement about how one man’s buck is just as good as any others. I pointed out that in the South in the 50s, it was indeed in that selfish interest to deny service to blacks. What society came to understand that it simply could not be left up to private businesses i n the South to come to the correct conclusion that excluding people from your establishment because they were of a different skin color was wrong. We realized that trying to live in a community where you had to walk past 10 restaurants with signs that say “No Blacks” to get to one that would accept you, we weren’t living in a free society at all. The balance of the dehumanizing and segregating effects it had on the black population versus the property rights of the proprietors of the businesses clearly favored the interests of blacks not being 2nd class citizens. Libertarians would do well to see the massive expansion of liberty for blacks in society and reject the idea that land owners should be able to just do whatever they wish regardless of whom they discriminate against.

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