21. Libertarianism was born of people who didn't want to make the evolution Mill did. Hayek obsessed with Mill's evolution.
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22. Hayek came up with crackpot explanation that Mill revised classical liberalism because he was henpecked by Harriet Taylor.
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23. Typically, the libertarian sees himself (let's be frank: it is HIMself) as colorblind person & having no collective identity
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24. Putative colorblindness & even genderblindness of libertarian is predicated on having privileged identity that needs no expression
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25. Colbert is very good on this: I'm so colorblind I don't know I'm white. People tell me I am, so I believe them.
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26. If you don't acknowledge racism & sexism faced by others, your colorblindness & gender blindness is defense of privilege.
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27. So libertarianism's whiteness problem emerges out of 1) limits of classical liberalism & 2) disingenuous colorblindness.
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28. Let me add: if it could grapple with it's race problem, libertarianism has much to offer for non-whites as well as whites.
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29. Libertarian critique of criminal justice system, warfare state, nativist immigration policy: all of those are genuinely valuable.
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30. Really, it shouldn't be me trying to tease out these libertarian/race issues. Should be the smart folks at Reason.
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31 A post-script: any indepth discussion of libertarianism & race should ponder career of Murray Rothbard, to me a tragic figure.
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32. Another post-script: Robert Heinlein's "Farnham's Freehold" (1964) is prime example of libertarian obtuseness on race.
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