{"id":374190,"date":"2018-08-20T22:10:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/major-rapper-attacks-me-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:10:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:10:17","slug":"major-rapper-attacks-me-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/major-rapper-attacks-me-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Rapper Attacks Me – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"This is a juicy one, folks.<\/p>\n

For 12 straight hours, and now again today, rapper Taleb Kweli \u2014 who\u2019s evidently a big deal, though I hadn\u2019t heard of him \u2014 went on the attack against me, and against some of my followers.<\/p>\n

It was bizarre.<\/p>\n

On my\u00a0entrepreneurship email list<\/a>\u00a0I wrote about some business lessons I drew from this.<\/p>\n

It began when someone linked to my lecture on Hitler\u2019s views of economics, in order to demonstrate to Talib that Hitler wasn\u2019t really a free-market guy.<\/p>\n

Instead of evaluating my claims, Talib went around looking for evidence that I was a bad person.<\/p>\n

He then replied, speaking about me:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a vile racist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huh? Evidently Talib based this claim on an article by \u2014 of all people \u2014 Max Boot, who as I recall did not actually accuse me of racism. Boot\u00a0is a pretty awful neocon,\u00a0though, and in any case I
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\n<\/span>smashed his article in a reply that appeared in\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Then Talib said:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not respected in his field.\u201d<\/p>\n

So I linked him to reviews of my book\u00a0The Church Confronts Modernity<\/em><\/a> (published by Columbia University Press), which was praised by all the major journals:\u00a0Journal of American History<\/em>,\u00a0American Historical Review<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of the Historical Society<\/em>,\u00a0Catholic Historical Review<\/em>,\u00a0Choice<\/em>\u00a0(review publication for academic libraries), and numerous others.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know it doesn\u2019t matter whether a rapper attacking me knows any of that, but sometimes you just say things anyway.<\/p>\n

Now for a few snippets. (If you have images disabled, you won\u2019t see them.) Hard to reproduce many of Talib\u2019s, since his language is so foul, but it\u2019s all there…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop all books by Tom Woods This is a juicy one, folks. For 12 straight hours, and now again today, rapper Taleb Kweli \u2014 who\u2019s evidently a big deal, though I hadn\u2019t heard of him \u2014 went on the attack against me, and against some of my followers. It was bizarre. On my\u00a0entrepreneurship email list\u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}