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To be fair, if you are a libertarian, many people claim the libertarian moniker but then say very illiberal things; check any comment section of Reason when the
by noobermin 9y ago
To be fair, if you are a libertarian, many people claim the libertarian moniker but then say very illiberal things; check any comment section of Reason when there is a black person killed by a cop. It is getting very hard for people outside your group to identify what libertarian means anymore because of that.
A similar thing is happening on the left I think, but since it is my group, I might not be as mindful of it. The same might follow for you.
- nnfy 9y agoLibertarian != liberal Also, it is unfortunate that people continue to politicize police killings and attribute them to race. Such treatment is ignorant of stastics. I think these glaring inconsistencies are just starting to tear the left apart. The right have their own problems, but they dont tend to be so obscenely inconsistent as to divide the base along racial and gender lines.
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- lovich 9y agoWhat are the statistics they are ignorant of?
- deathanatos 9y ago> check any comment section of Reason when there is a black person killed by a cop. It is getting very hard for people outside your group to identify what libertarian means anymore because of that. Care to elaborate? I don't read Reason, but am curious as to an example of what you mean? (I do agree the liberal moniker is losing value; most folks I interact w/ seem to take extreme characters as if they're the norm, and won't hardly discuss whether the values have any merit.)