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18345423 No.18345423 [Reply] [Original]

It's been almost six months since he died and the Scruton shaped hole in the world seems to still not be filled. Who can take up the honor?

>> No.18345427

>>18345423
>dude what I'm a conservative but also a capitalist, that will work!
retard. capitalism and conservatism are not compatible.

>> No.18345436

>>18345427
>"“not every social problem has a market solution, and there is a need for the maintenance of traditions in education and in culture and in the law, which are not traditions of free enterprise". - Roger Scruton

>> No.18345437

>Professor Roger Scruton, darling of the moral right, asked one of the world's biggest tobacco companies for £5,500 a month to help place pro-smoking articles in some of Britain's most influential newspapers and magazines.

>The controversial conservative academic offered to use his Fleet Street contacts to get pieces published in his own name and those of others on "major topics of current concern" to the tobacco industry.

>In a leaked email to Japan Tobacco International seeking a £1,000 rise on his existing £4,500 monthly fee, Prof Scruton argued that in a business "largely conducted by shysters and sharks" he represented value for money.

Really makes one ponder.

>> No.18345438

>>18345423
Roger Scrotum

>> No.18345443

>>18345427
I agree with this idea but probably for different reasons than you do.

>> No.18345463

>>18345423
He was probably the only living conservative who was also a respectable intellectual. I doubt that hole will be filled for a while.

>> No.18345494

>>18345437
Someone who likes Scruton steel-man this for me.

>> No.18345496

>>18345437
It's something he already believed so he was paid to write about something he already believed in. Along with this he never hid that he was being paid. Man's gotta make it his living. No one gets angry when Zizek get's paid to advertise for Abercrombie & Fitch

>> No.18345514

>>18345496
>No one gets angry when Zizek get's paid to advertise for Abercrombie & Fitch
Come again?

>> No.18345528

>>18345514
Are the same guy who posted that? The Communists I've seen seem to excuse it

>> No.18345592

>>18345496
Almost like there's a different between a fashion outlet and Big Tobacco

>> No.18345610

>>18345592
Yes, tobacco is good, A&F is shit.

>> No.18345620

>>18345592
The selling out part is the part that matters not the tobacco part. Again it's something he already believed in and was already writing about hence "asked one of the world's biggest tobacco companies".

>> No.18345626

>>18345494
I don't like Scruton at all, but there's nothing remotely wrong with this.

>> No.18345629

>>18345437
Sugar is probably worse yet no one complains when some famous singer advertises for coca-cola or some chocolate brand.
It's not like Scruton was being a hypocrite. He was pro-tobacco.

>> No.18345630

>>18345528
No, just wondering if you were joking or not?

>> No.18345632

>>18345620
>it's something he already believed in

Obviously he's going to say this since he was caught

>> No.18345638

He's a writer who got paid to write something.

>> No.18345646
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18345646

>>18345423
Don't worry. I'm sure another conservative apologist will come along soon enough.

>> No.18345649
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18345649

>>18345632
The dude smokes and never stopped smoking. Pretty much all of his beliefs are counter to the modern liberal world it's not a jump to think he supports smoking. He writes about dumb shit like legalizing fox hunting

>> No.18345716

>>18345649
What exactly was his rationale for smoking?

>> No.18345824

>>18345649
Why is fox hunting dumb shit?

>> No.18345868

>>18345423
Scruton, Bloom, and Steiner, all gone just a few months apart from each other.

>> No.18346010

>>18345824
>Why is dressing up like a fag and watching dogs hunt a rat-fuck creature dumb shit?
No idea mate.

>> No.18346020

>>18345423
>six months
??????

>> No.18346259

>>18345423
It’s been 15 months since he died

>> No.18346275

>>18345427
Kill yourself retarded leftist imbecile.

>> No.18346282

Leftists are not human. They carry the plague with them like the lice they are.

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>> No.18346514

>>18346259
>>18346020
my bad it feels so soon

>> No.18346680
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18346680

>Leftists are not human. They carry the plague with them like the lice they are.

>> No.18347296

>>18345592
Smoking is good and a hobby enjoyed by all intellectuals for hundreds of years.

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>>18346383
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qvZT_y2g4

>> No.18347337

>>18347296
Cancer stink

>> No.18347963

>>18346275
Not even a leftist

>> No.18348005

>>18345437
>gets payed for saying something he believes in
The horror!

>> No.18348280

Um, he's been dead for 17 months.