Niall Ferguson: An Apology

Full Disclosure And That: Fagburn added the following as a postscript to to the post below Elites And Society And Sport on Friday after seeing a tweet with a link to the story in Financial Advisor - whatever that is - and updated it as it unfolded.
Being generally clueless and hopeless, I had no idea this would become a major news story, for the reasons I have outlined below. 
But anyway, as it has become quite a "thing", I've now separated it out.
Still rather baffled as to why it blew up quite so big, beyond the usual manufactured outrage of the mainstream - and, of course, the gay - media.
Now I'm not a leading academic/popular historian, but considering what a power-worshipping right-wing shitbag Niall Ferguson notoriously is, I'd call this obnoxious and apparently off-the-cuff remark "a detail". 
Enjoy!

Update: 'Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes' economic philosophy was flawed and he didn't care about future generations because he was gay and didn't have children', Financial Advisor.
Uh-huh...

Update update: Seems I thought this NF story was of a bit less import than some others did.
Right-wing historian makes stupid right-wing claim shock... meh.
Let's hope no-one finds out his best-known work involves writing and arguing in defence of "Civilisation" and "Empire" and "the West and the Rest".
Who said history is written by "winners"?

Update update update: Ferguson issued "an unqualified apology" on Saturday.
"Comments... that were as stupid as they were insensitive..." etc etc.

FINAL ACTUAL UPDATE: This soon became a stuck record, with lots of over-acted outrage by journalists and twitters who probably had to Google Keynes and Ferguson to find out who they were.
Here's an article that's actually interesting and insightful, by someone who knows what they're talking about - Sex, Economics And Austerity by Jeet Heer - that explains why "Keynes is so threatening to conservative economists and moralists alike", and pointing out such thinking goes back to Aristotle.

And finally? Ferguson's "argument" gets taken apart by... the Financial Times!