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tweakabelle -> RE: Ron Paul pounds another nail into his coffin. (5/15/2011 6:38:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
I'm having a really tough job trying to understand how someone who claims to be a 'libertarian' (which I take to be very pro-individual liberty and civil rights) has a problem with a civil rights law or could take any anti-desegregation position.
The first explanation that springs to mind is that the civil rights of blacks don't count in this person's mind. Because if one believes the rights of all citizens, irrespective of their colour, are equal, there is no way in the world any one could possibly oppose de-segregation as it existed in the old South.
That the zennys of this world, with their obnoxious racism, sympathise with this stance seems to add weight to this explanation.
Libertarianism in the American style is utopian nonsense: attractive and appealing to muse over but impractical in application for the simple reason that it gives free reign to unregulated greed. It is only a stalking horse for social darwinism to which the ascendent and privileged class members rally. It rationalizes stealthily class and race prejudice by assuming property is more important than life and pretending we have no social contract or obligation other than what we wish to distribute by way of charity.
Yes. That sounds spot on to me. Though social Darwinism is far to nice a title for something that in the end amounts to little more than pure greed. Nevertheless, both concepts share total redundancy in today's world.
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