You need to go back further to the Brown decision or at least the Civil Rights Act. While I think most classical liberals opposed racism, they were disturbed by the use of government power to end racist policies.
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Exactly, the roots go back further I think to von Mises pro-fascist politics. In 1940s Mises worried that Nazis were discrediting the valuable side of race science.
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It's like the old debate about how much intolerance can a tolerant society tolerate. If you believe that government is the ultimate evil, then using government--even in the pursuit of virtuous goals--is a doubled-edged sword. Racism may be evil, but government is more evil.
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Replying to @BruceBartlett @HeerJeet and
Back when I was a libertarian, I don't recall anyone advocating racism on libertarian grounds. But neither did any libertarian think racism was a particularly serious problem. THE problem was government and to the extent racism was problem it's because it was government-enforced.
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@delong? — posted a long letter from Robert Heinlein to H. Beam Piper from the early 1960s on civil rights. The letter is Heinlein unwittingly demonstrating that libertarianism had nothing at all to offer the victims of racism.4 replies 1 retweet 14 likes -
Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @BruceBartlett and
Yes, I remember that. Notable because Heinlein didn't see the problem with racially exclusive racial covenant contracts.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @BruceBartlett and
They’re contracts! The most sacred thing! I mean sure they bind parties not present and in perpetuity but hey
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Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @BruceBartlett and
In the case of Rothbard though it goes beyond the typical blindness of whites to systematic racism. He knew what racism was and he openly embraced it.
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Absolutely the founder of Students for Thurmond did, yes
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Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @HeerJeet and
I genuinely don’t see why the Mises faction even cares about the LP at this point except force of habit. The Trumpified GOP is the Rockwell-Rothbard Report brought to life. Any paleolibertarian wanting to do politics can do so in a major party!
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I'm working on something on this but it's a plausible to see all this as a Bannon ratfucking operation designed to eliminate a party that takes away GOP votes.
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Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @HeerJeet and
I think your hypothesis is not crazy, but also, and I am keen to hear Bruce’s view here, you may be underestimating the sheer pettiness of the Lew Rockwell set
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