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And sending our colored cousins home again. Big-L Libertarianism is back, baby, and racist as it’s always been. Soon, I expect Jason Calcanis to arrive to expla
by KerrAvon 4y ago
And sending our colored cousins home again. Big-L Libertarianism is back, baby, and racist as it’s always been. Soon, I expect Jason Calcanis to arrive to explain how this somehow makes the MC the last bastion of the true moderates.
- ch4s3 4y agoLysander Spooner was one of the thinkers who lead to American libertarianism, and was first and foremost an abolitionist. Painting a whole intellectual tradition with such a broad brush based on the late in life nonsense spouted by Rothbard or the shitty newsletter Ron Paul used to publish is intellectually dishonest. Among contemporary American Libertarians you'll also find a lot of readers and admirers of Zora Neale Hurston who is often considered along side Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson as a founding mother of American libertarianism. You'll also find that American libertarians have long criticized Woodrow Wilson for re-segregating the government, opposed interracial marriage laws, opposed mass incarceration, and on and on.