my bigot

I finally had him!

I've long suspected that Stephan Kinsella is a hate-filled bigot. He even admits it! (And he hates exclamation points, so I've thrown one in just for him.)

He might tell you that he's only "reclaiming" the B-word. He might even try to claim it was all my idea. But we all know how he really feels, right? He is an unapologetic Southron.

Here's what I read today in a comment on the Mises blog:

Comments: Idiot Patrol

These PC college-boy punks got owned. Professor Hoppe has been vindicated, redeemed, and exalted. Hopefully, this is the last time somebody attempts to prevent us from celebrating our culture. The loser brainwashed idiots got their dessert.

Posted by Stephan Kinsella at March 2, 2005 12:20 PM

So I was getting ready to post a follow-up comment that would say only "celebrating our culture?!" (note the spurious exclamation point) but I made the mistake of asking him directly WTF he was talking about.

To my great frustration, it turns out he didn't post the comment. (Or so he claims!) A certain Misesian looked at the plumbing and found that the comment came not from Kinsella's IP address, but from an anonymizer. The anonymizer address has now been banned from posting to the Mises blog.

So what do we make of this? Certainly it's not evidence that Kinsella is not a bigot. (He'll have you believe that it's impossible to prove a negative.) But it does seem to be evidence that someone out there is awfully anxious to prove that he is.

My take on it is this: the troll would have waited for the comments to grow on that post, hoping that someone -- like me, for example -- would call Kinsella on his celebrating-our-culture comment, and the troll would use the whole thing on some other blog to trumpet the fact that Kinsella had finally slipped and revealed his true feelings.

Right on, my brother! Better luck next time ...