Most are former leftists who have been alienated by authoritarianism & identity politicshttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/971957873033953285 …
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Replying to @clairlemon
Classical liberalism has no authoritarianism & identity politics? John Stuart Mill thought non-whites had no free speech rights.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @clairlemon
Can you point me to a specific passage saying that?
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Replying to @CathyYoung63 @clairlemon
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This, from On Liberty:https://twitter.com/cdrogers2991/status/971974621963567104 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet @clairlemon
I don't see anything here about "nonwhites." He's saying that freedom is unworkable in societies that haven't attained a certain level of maturity; one of his examples is medieval Europeans under Charlemagne.
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Replying to @CathyYoung63 @clairlemon
Right -- but he wouldn't consider France or any other white nation to be immature any longer. It's pretty clear who the barbarians are (especially if you consider his policies for East India company).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @clairlemon
Not sure about "any white nation." Russia, for example, was widely regarded as "barbarian."
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Replying to @CathyYoung63 @clairlemon
Russians were hardly considered white in 19th century (or even much of 20th century).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @clairlemon
Are you saying that an ethnic Russian immigrant living in the American South in the 1930s would have been considered "colored"?
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As a legal example: whole point of 1924 immigration act was to shore up white identity in USA, and Russians were among those severely limited by quotas.
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