huh would you look at thathttps://twitter.com/LPNational/status/1532802789184872448 …
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Replying to @lionel_trolling
one of the non-racist ex-libertarians on here should write an insider history of the movement from the Bush era to now, would be genuinely interesting
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Replying to @pareene @lionel_trolling
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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Replying to @BruceBartlett @HeerJeet and
Someone a few years ago — maybe
@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
iirc, Farnham's Freehold is a paean to racisim but it has been a while since I read it
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Replying to @Bluefishdude @BruceBartlett and
It’s trying to be anti-racist using a “what if we swapped roles?” lens. I think it fails because I don’t think the swapped-roles trick really works, but to be fair African-American novelist David Bradley mentioned it favorably in an essay once.
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My line on Farnham Freehold is that it's an anti-racist novel that only a Klansman can love.
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