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I have no doubt that your personal libertarianism finds racism, nationalism and isolationism distasteful. I also have no doubt that prominent people who identi
by ubernostrum 9y ago
I have no doubt that your personal libertarianism finds racism, nationalism and isolationism distasteful.
I also have no doubt that prominent people who identify and are accepted as libertarian, and sites which are cited as and claim to be libertarian, have cultivated alliances with racist/nationalist/isolationist groups. To those groups, many libertarian positions are appealing: sweeping away all government regulation, for example, would get rid of those pesky laws that make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race. Holding private contracts to be sacred and doing away with government interference in their performance means exploitative contracts -- close or even identical to actual slavery -- "entered" into on extremely coercive terms become perfectly acceptable. And so on and so forth.