12. Libertarian anti-racism tends to falter at the point where challenge to racial status quo requires collective social action
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13. More broadly, since 1950s at least, libertarians often talk as if anti-racism were a bigger threat to liberty than racism.
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14. Sociologically, of course, libertarianism is very white, even as ideologically it is often the most cosmopolitan wing of the right.
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15. Coupled with antipathy towards collective social action is libertarians think of racism as individual malice not structural problem
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16. I'd like to see some more introspection from libertarians on their movements checkered history with race.
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17. Murray Rothbard would actually be a good entry point for an analysis of libertarian contradictions on race.
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18. Rothbard was as more complicated figure than either his admirers or critics allow.
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19. As historian, Rothbard was very innovative in linking progressive-era statism with Jim Crow racial control.
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20. Rothbard's smart handling of historical racism and very sharp critique of Cold War policies was offset by his 1980s turn to paleo-cons
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21. You can't understand the Ron Paul stuff without understanding the Rothbard/Rockwell embrace of white nationalism in 1980s
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22. This Lew Rockwell piece supporting police beating of Rodney King is symptomatic of libertarianism's race problem: http://www.theagitator.com/2008/02/02/lew-rockwell-on-rodney-king-in-the-la-times/ …
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@dickens432 Yes, agree, but there's a wider conversation to be had.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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