Are Libertarians Racist?

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In conjunction with Ralph Nader's appeal for a left-right alliance and given that Nader and Ron Paul presented the face of such an alliance a chorus of voices rose to reject this conceit on the grounds that one of the two and the entire right-libertarian cohort well as Nader by association were racist bigots.

For my part, since I reject MSM consent-manufacturing propaganda, and since I am, above all, antiwar - and thus find libertarians to be my fellow travelers -  I decided to look into the matter by keying 'libertarians, racism' into my search engine.

Moving past the MSM propagandists' howling - much as they howl about Russia, because it's true - out popped: Can you be a libertarian racist or anti-Semite?  That it appeared on the Bleeding Heart Libertarian's website illustrates that American libertarianism is not a homogenous cohort and that those painting all subsets of this otherwise socialist tendency with a broad brush as racist are willfully ignorant.


"Can you be a libertarian racist or anti-Semite?


No.
OK, now we’ve got that out of the way, here’s why:
As a political philosophy libertarianism is based on the view that all individual humans are worthy of respect, and that their actions should not be subject to the coercive interference of another without just cause. Now, what counts as “just cause” is open for debate. But it’s clear that if we truly believe that all individuals are worthy of respect then the mere fact that someone has a particular ancestry wouldn’t justify treating her differently from anyone else. (Nor, incidentally, would the mere fact that someone is a different sex justify her differential treatment.) If you believe that it does then you’re treating persons primarily as tokens of types of people, and not primarily as individuals. And that’s just not an individualist–or libertarian–view."

Next up: Libertarians Tell White Nationalists, Racists to Leave Party

Noooo. Can't be!

and at Counterpunch: Libertarians Have Almost Nothing In Common With the Alt-Right

So I suggest that before playing into the neoliberal establishment's ploy of ripping asunder, compartmentalizing, slicing, dicing and sectionalizing the awesome power and threat which a unified public presents to them, we may want to consider questioning their authoritative bloviations, if not for any other reason than to assert our own agency.



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