John Derbyshire does not give a damn about Egyptian lives

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

[ this post was originally published on a weblog called What Is Liberalism ]

Progressive Gold Beta points to this callous remark by John Derbyshire:

In between our last two posts I went to Drudge to see what was happening in the world. The lead story was about a ship disaster in the Red Sea. From the headline picture, it looked like a cruise ship. I therefore assumed that some people very much like the Americans I went cruising with last year were the victims. I went to the news story. A couple of sentences in, I learned that the ship was in fact a ferry, the victims all Egyptians. I lost interest at once, and stopped reading. I don’t care about Egyptians.

The phrase “traditional values” refers to which values, again?

Derbyshire has made a habit lately of conflating his personal desires and apathies with “conservatism”. Angelica at BattlePanda has up a beautiful post regarding Derbyshire’s sexual hang-ups.

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    http://progressivegoldbeta.blogspot.com/2006/02/know-your-bigots-john-derbyshire-of.html
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    http://battlepanda.blogspot.com/2005/12/disturbing-glimpse-into-conservative.html
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