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<title><![CDATA[Day 21 (17.vii.08)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marius Ostrowski</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Another lecture day today - this time on Kymlicka and multiculturalism. Much more my line of busines]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://mariusostrowski.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/kingdm1411_468x678.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-173" src="http://mariusostrowski.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/kingdm1411_468x678.jpg?w=207" alt="" width="180" height="261" /></a>Another lecture day today - this time on Kymlicka and multiculturalism. Much more my line of business, given that my animated response to the discussions in tutes back in Hilary term of hate speech, the offence principle, and general limitations of liberty have led me to adopt a rather hostile attitude to theoretical attempts to justify any sort of inegalitarian privilege accorded alien and minority cultural phenomena. What I mean is that I'm tempted to side with social conservatives in the face of excessive exemptory legislation that benefits (predominantly immigrated) minorities at the moral if not usually physical or economic expense of the extant cultural <em>status quo</em> and those that adhere to it. I'm all for tolerance, but the balance is all too often tipped too far the wrong way nowadays, in that cultural traditionalists are seen to varying degrees as simple-minded, anti-progressive or even racist. <em>That</em> risks undermining social cohesion and generating civic instability, using measures that are doubtless aimed at setting up a two-way process of integration, which Kymlicka himself advocates. A two-way process it surely is, but the onus is on the newcomers to adapt to the hosts, not vice versa; I speak as just such a newcomer, and while the difference between European cultures may not be that great compared to that between European and African or Asian backgrounds, the rule still applies, and I reckon I've followed it rather well.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Such moralising aside, which I don't doubt will find its way into some talk or essay at Oxford over the course of the next year or so, the rest of my day was ruthlessly inactive (as it generally is on lecture-days) - a spot of Skype, extensive trawling of the political blogs and news, from which I've gathered that the government wants to rewrite the rulebook where borrowing rules are concerned so as to avoid another tax hike, thereby pulverising what little remained of Gordon Brown's integrity and reputation as an economic <em>savant</em>. The Conservatives have called it 'the last nail in the coffin' for Brown - I disagree; he's been a dead man walking since Northern Rock, to be brutally honest. Vince Cable, one of the few Lib Dems who talks sense on a regular basis, and with a sense of humour to boot, has called for an independent body to be set up to scrutinise fiscal policy in the same way that the Bank of England is already independent (at least nominally) for all things monetary. Good idea, at least in theory - let the economists handle what the politicians can't, and eliminate the political business cycle in one fell swoop - but I can see the notional body going to war with the BoE over policy quite a bit, one team of economists against another (let's just hope it doesn't turn into neoclassical vs Keynesian as well, or we'll be here till Ragnarok), with the government impotently caught in the crossfire. I think I might just sit back and relax on that one... with a su doku, no less...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Eu aceitei o dinheiro do inimigo e fiz bom uso dele!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 21:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>claudio</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Um dos campeões de voto do PT no Rio, em seu sexto mandato como deputado estadual, Carlos Minc não]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><a href="http://si.knowtec.com/scripts-si/MostraNoticia?&#38;idnoticia=15880&#38;idcontato=1135&#38;origem=fiqueatento&#38;nomeCliente=FUNCEX&#38;data=2008-05-17"><span class="texto">Um dos campeões de voto do PT no Rio, em seu sexto mandato como deputado estadual, Carlos Minc não tem, pelo mapa de doações da Justiça Eleitoral, grandes mecenas. Seu quadro de doadores é formado, na maior parte, por pessoas físicas, amigos, parentes e até ele mesmo, que em 2002 colocou R$ 10.530 do próprio bolso para honrar suas despesas. Ninguém, empresas ou conhecidos, doou nenhum valor acima de R$ 50 mil.</p>
<p>Mas se as doações refletem um pouco do perfil de quem paga as contas da campanha de um político, é curioso analisar que um dos doadores da campanha do novo ministro do Meio Ambiente, Carlos Minc, em 2002, foi a Analytical Solutions S/A, laboratório de análises de alta tecnologia que vende soluções para setores como agronegócios (verdadeiro palavrão para os ambientalistas), meio ambiente, indústria e petróleo. Uma ajuda de módicos R$ 6 mil. </span></a></p></blockquote>
<p>Eis aí como funciona a política. Um outro mundo é possível, tá vendo? É só tirar a venda do fanatismo e da idolatria e você enxerga melhor como funciona o mundo da política à direita ou à esquerda. A diferença é que, atualmente, se você fala da esquerda, é xingado de tudo quanto é nome feio. O porquê desta hipocrisia não necessita explicação, claro.</p>
<p>De qualquer forma, perceba como o mercado político é muito mais complicado do que se diz por aí. Qualquer cientista político sério pode atestar o que digo. Mas só os sérios.</p>
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