FROM TUTOR2U? (Seriously?) Ok, you know, what I write about is controversial. I

http://tutor2u.net/BANNED FROM TUTOR2U? (Seriously?)

Ok, you know, what I write about is controversial. I defend the conservative and libertarian political and economic programs. (Although I also defend redistribution under certain circumstances.) I explain conservative theory using libertarian reasoning. And I think I’m as good or better at it than anyone else out there. So, to check myself, I just went through all of my comments on Disqus and they’re pretty tame. I changed my debate strategy this winter so that it’s less antagonistic and more explicative. But whatever they banned me for must have been recent.

SO FAR WHO HAS BANNED ME?

1) Mark Thoma’s Left Wing link aggregator The Economist’s View (top leftist site on the web after Krugman) And I deserved it probably, for stooping to their level now and then. I’m only human.

2) Tutor2u’s economic site (no idea what I said there that was controversial). I mean it’s a progressive site.

And that’s it.

Other Notices:

3) TED didn’t ban me but deleted a comment I made on why I didn’t think it’s statistically likely that more women will become CEOs of major companies, or senior managers (IQ distributions favor men at the extremes.)

4) I got a threatening notice from Arnold Kling’s editor because I was posting my responses to him on my web site, maybe a year and a half ago, but not for the content itself. I just explained that I was documenting my comments and they were fine with it.

So, I don’t get banned often. I though Paul Krugman would have done so by now, but I’m tame next to some people there. Or one of the other leftist economists that I argue with now and then. I’m pretty prolific. At the rate I produce you’d think that if I was really awful that I’d get banned all the time.

Here is the post. It’s in response to the question of which exit from the Euro will cause the least harm.

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“I don’t know why it isn’t pretty obvious that the optimum answer is the split north and south, with the north doing the planning, and bearing the cost, of restoring the Mark.

The US mountain, midwest and south have the same problem with the northeast and west. A lot of political conflict that could be solved by markets if they weren’t under the same federal government and currency.

I wouldn’t wish our level of political polarization on europe. It certainly seems like that’s what they’re asking for. And, at least in political theory, we’re pretty certain that big is bad and small is good. We should be thinking about breaking up the states. Europe shouldn’t be trying to federate like we do. It’s a recipe for conflict and paralyzation.”

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