It is now 65 years since Murray Rothbard and his ilk began trying to harness the lightning bolt of white supremacy to animate the dead tissue of their Frankenstein’s monster of the anti-New Deal cause. Does it still matter? I think it does. I have heard a lot of people who 10/
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Replying to @delong @kimmaicutler and
The right knows this! "We talked about the sanctity of free enterprise until we were blue in the face....But we never really won until we began stressing issues like busing, abortion," R. Viguerie, GOP strategist & guy who invented direct-mail strategy.
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Replying to @ikuziemko @delong and
Yes, and Christianity didn't really won until it allied with the power of the Roman state. I do not think this means that the entire Christian project is inherently monarchical, hierarchical, etc.
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As a young girl growing up devoutly Catholic, it felt pretty hierarchical and monarchical to me. I don't think it's controversial to say the sex scandals would have been fewer had the Church been less hierarchical and lay people less unquestioning of priests' power.
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Replying to @ikuziemko @delong and
What I am saying is that "Many people who believe in problematic doctrine X have strategically embraced evil institution Y" does not imply "All believers in X are supporters of Y". Not only does this not follow, but this style of logic is incredibly pernicious.
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Few of us on this thread are saying that, so no need to shoot down that strawman. But as
@delong says, it is also ahistorical to minimize past/present prejudices of powerful groups (e.g., libertarians, who have an outsize influence, as you say) bc you want them on your side.3 replies 0 retweets 22 likes -
Replying to @ikuziemko @delong and
I have said, about a dozen times and will say again now, that many libertarians, perhaps even most, in the United States and certainly most who followed libertarian leaders were motivated by white supremacist ideas. So no disagreement there.
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Replying to @ProfDBernstein @glenweyl and
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 @kimmaicutler @ProfDBernstein and
You skip right over the construction of whiteness when it’s convenient to do so. How surprising.
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Clearly this very sarcastic comment was not sarcastic enough for some people.
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