Yes, I too have black friends, which therefore proves that I do not support policies and ideas that have practically and systematically undermined equal access for African Americans to opportunities and resources in the United States.
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Replying to @ProfDBernstein @glenweyl and
Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Lysol In E Flat
I think that you should examine more of the entire sprawling conversation:https://twitter.com/geedee215/status/1079789994691227649?s=21 …
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Lysol In E FlatVerified account @GeeDee215Replying to @GeeDee215 @glenweyl and 8 othersWhite supremacy is an organizing force of US life, and always has been. There have been strains of it in all manner of ideologies, but libertarians have a very specific, ongoing relationship to antiblackness and anti-civil rights policy.3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes -
Replying to @kimmaicutler @ProfDBernstein and
@profDBernstein looks like somebody interested not in participating in but disrupting this conversation. I don't see any point in engaging. As I see it "mute or block?" is the choice here...1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @delong @kimmaicutler and
No, David Bernstein is just pointing out that unlike Goldwater, who as a Republican opposed segregation, Franklin Roosevelt, as a Democrat, supported it, and enforced it in the army and in his federal programs.
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this is a really interesting rendering of the record of a man who vocally opposed the most important civil rights legislation of the 20th century on dubious small government grounds (and gave cover for segregationists to do the same)
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Replying to @GeeDee215 @erasmuse and
And again, this gets back to the broader convo, in which libertarianism exists as *just another white supremacist ideology* and not one with a specific relationship to it and whose adherents oppose even the most modest and fraught mechanisms meant to ameliorate antiblack racism
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Replying to @GeeDee215 @erasmuse and
and again, i think a really basic tell about the motivations of institutional libertarianism lay in its demographics. Either a whole lot of Black folks don’t want liberty — — OR what “liberty” means to institutional libertarianism is fundamentally arranged around whiteness.
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Replying to @GeeDee215 @erasmuse and
If that is your concern, why did you post something from
@NiskanenCenter all of those leaders are white men?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Probably because there are so few self-reflective conversations inside libertarianism on this particular issue that that piece might’ve been one or one of the only ones out there. I haven’t seen a piece like that before.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @GeeDee215 and
Also: Will Wilkinson, Brink Lindsay, Jerry Taylor and the others are Jack Kemp libertarians, or rather Jack Kemp ex-libertarians. They've been wrestling with these questions for quite a while...
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Replying to @delong @kimmaicutler and
This exchange makes me wonder if most of you have any meaningful relationships with actual libertarians. The boogeymen described in this thread — with their dark motives and constitutional deficits of humanity — they bear zero resemblance to me or anyone I know.
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