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Note that I said that having certain biases can lead to invalid conclusions. Of course that doesn't inevitably lead to invalid overall conclusions, but it might. And it's not like I strained to find one instance of the words "lesbian", "jew" or "yankee". They're strewn throughout that essay. So the real question is why did Rothbard bring them up?

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Perhaps he was a misogynistic, jew-hating, slave-owning Austrian economist. Who cares, as long as his points are valid? You can't use the fact that Rothbard was a misogynistic self-loathing jew to invalidate his arguments regarding the origins of the welfare state. Is Woody Allen not funny because he is a self-loathing Jew? Why not attack Rothbard's ideas, rather than he prejudices?