Excerpted by Nicholas Stix
‘Blackout’: Are Reality Defying Libertarians Doomed to Extinction?
Some simple-minded, lite libertarians feel (for they do not think) that describing race reality is a feature of a collectivist habit of mind. Crimes described by their perpetrators as “polarbearing” or Jew hunting, these libertarians refuse to frame in anything but race-neutral terms….
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The right-libertarians really aren't much better. Even if they acknowledge race, eventually the race denial and race lying that libertarianism requires will present a moral contradiction in their heads, and they'll have to choose between recognizing race and denying race (libertarianism), because they can't do both.
ReplyDeleteHowever, one thing they do to forestall the inevitable mental paradox is somewhat acknowledging the racial aspects to things like Knockout Martin Luther King, but couching the root causes and ergo the solutions in aracial often libertarian ideological terms.
Unfortunately, no, they are not doomed to extinction. A lot of left-libertarians are well-educated and live in the best parts of the city, so they tend not to be the prime targets of black violence.
ReplyDeleteI would be far more worried about 'white trash' folks--denigrated as such by the liberal media--in integrating neighborhoods without the economic means to relocate to better areas.
There is a strain of libertarians who believe in states rights, property rights, and the right to free association. If those rights were available then separate (segregated) communities, counties, and possibly even states could exist. If I own a property I should be free to sell it or not sell it to anyone I chose. If I can't do that, then I don't really own the property. The same goes for shops, restaurants, and even "planned" communities. If those God given rights were restored to the American people, the county would be stronger, wealthier, and sustainable. I should even have the right to spit when I see a lowlife thug walking down the street and I should have the right to shoot him, should he threaten or even reasonably seem to threaten violence against me. With such a change in the balance of power, order and decency would return to our lands. Unfortunately such a return to the justice of free men, requires a significant, often catastrophic change to the political structure of the nation.
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ReplyDeleteI've been working on a theory for some time about this... I suppose it comes under the heading of 'White pathology'.
There seems to me, quite a strong case that many White liberals are overcompensating on race to disguise their own truthful seeing of it and instincts about it.
Rather a lot of White liberal rhetoric (not including lefist Jewish activism which has been very influential and set the tone) is something like a kind of self-punishment for being subconsciously racially aware. And there's a least some interesting experiments that have been done on this.
And on another note, it's worth remembering there were a lot of great White minds who didn't like slavery, but those same minds didn't for a second believe that blacks should have equal status to Whites or be forcibly integrated together.
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Anon 11/30 11:42 wrote:
ReplyDeleteThere is a strain of libertarians who believe in states rights, property rights, and the right to free association.
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And as long as they're seriously libertarians, they will deny race and deny the right of people to make public policy around race. Sure, they'll talk and talk and talk about "states rights, property rights, free association rights," but the combination of their fundamental race denial and our politically correct culture means that if you give such libertarians any real power, they'll be as bad as the worst liberals when it comes to using the power of government to enforce egalitarian diktats.
If you recognize race, you are by definition not a libertarian. If you are a libertarian, you by definition do not and cannot recognize race.