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
In fact the Jacksonian ideology and the post-War, pre-Civil Rights official ideology probably has more in common with the standard left than it does with average libertarianism.
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Replying to @glenweyl @kimmaicutler
Furthermore, the great majority of black and brown people (not to mention other non-whites) live outside of North America and Western Europe. The periods of greatest income and power divergence between non-whites and whites is clearly 1925-1975.
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Replying to @glenweyl @kimmaicutler
During this period, the prevailing ideology was Keynesian social democracy. Does this mean that Keynesian social democracy is, in practice, a ruse for white supremacy?
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Replying to @glenweyl @kimmaicutler
The historical period of greatest convergence, on average, between the incomes and standings of non-white people and white people has been, by far, 1980-today. During this period the prevailing ideology was neo-liberalism/libertarianism.
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Replying to @glenweyl @kimmaicutler
So if we are going to go by historical associations, I think libertarianism=significant erosion of white supremacy is probably closer to being accurate, though I think this whole game is a stupid one.
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Replying to @glenweyl @kimmaicutler
In terms of prospective questions, freer immigration, of which libertarians are much more aggressive and consistent advocates on average than are progressives, would make a far bigger difference to average non-white/white power and income gaps than pretty much any other policy.
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Yet but in practice over the last generation, which alliances have libertarian organizations and donors been willing to make that have net enabled the exact opposite of a policy shift toward more open borders?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
And which alliances have "progressives" been willing to make that would have led, if successful, to what consequences for people in the global south?
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