Marshall is equating libertarianism with white supremacy. I think this is roughly equivalent to equating socialism with Stalinism, conservatism with Nazism or Islam with terrorism. This attitude of some of the left is unbelievably destructive and dangerous. https://twitter.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1079490048968527873 …
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Kim-Mai, my claim was that libertarianISM=white supremacISM and thus libertIANS=white supremicISTS is a quasi-hate speech statement. What the actual implications of a doctrine are in the real world is complex and fraught question. Does socialism inevitably lead to Stalinism?
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As a historical matter, the periods of greatest divergence between the income and social standing of whites and blacks in the United States since Independence were probably the Jacksonian period, Redemption period and post-War, pre-Civil Rights.
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I had thought that my brilliant-but-at-times-highly-annoying coauthor
@Econ_Marshall was making a more sophisticated point—that here in America "libertarianism" is a Frankenstein's monster that got its lightning-bolt juice from massive resistance to the Civil Rights Movement. 1/ -
Dismantling the New Deal and rolling back the social insurance state were not ideas that had much potential political-economy juice back in the 1950s and 1960s. But if the economic libertarian cause of dismantling the New Deal could be harnessed to the cause of white 2/
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As though the Davis-Bacon act, Social Security's job exclusions, FHA redlining, didn't extend white supremacy. In the 1990's they were calling for an end to the drug war when Bill Clinton was locking up more.
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Please just go and search the rest of the comment thread network before jumping in. Thx.
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By that logic no possible policy can be seen as not white supremacy.
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I like this thought experiment
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Yes. The geolibertarian one. Taxes the rent of rentiers. Probably has UBI. Might have pollution taxes. Doesn’t pick winners and losers otherwise.
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