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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Replying to @glenweyl
Is there a theoretical world in which libertarianism /= white supremacy but the practical, real-world effect of libertarian policies over the last 40 yrs has been to extend white supremacy, given that different groups did not start out w/ equivalent resources & capital in the US
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
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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Replying to @glenweyl @kimmaicutler
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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Replying to @glenweyl @kimmaicutler
It would be extremely hard to characterize the prevailing ideology of the first and third periods as libertarian, and probably pretty hard to do that for the second period.
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Replying to @glenweyl
the people I know who have designed the largest scale content moderation systems for American technology companies generally prefer the framing of “threats” to the imprecision of “hate speech” as a term
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @glenweyl
but if we had to use that term, speech that falls under that term would prob also need to include causing actual harm, intent to cause harm, the speech inciting bad action beyond the speech itself and/or a context that makes a violent response possible
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @glenweyl
I don’t interpret Marshall as making that argument that libertarianism is more white supremacist than other ideologies. He seems to acknowledge that the New Deal also has these elements, in racializing access to homeownership finance via redlining
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Ummm, he works for the
@rooseveltinst. And he literally equated the two. So are you saying he accepts that, literally, he works for the White Supremacist Institute1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
I actually don’t think @Econ_Marshall would be grossly offended by that statement, but I’ll let him speak for himself. Regardless of the ideology, I think it is really hard to devise equitable policy and it’s OK/normal to self-examine for disparate outcomes on a constant basis.
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