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[quote user="CrazyCoot"] One can certainly be a racist and be a libertarian, or hold any other stripe of less than desirable attitudes towards groups of people. The important thing is that one does not use the state to further ones goals. Say I don't like Canadians and a bunch of them move into my neighborhood; it would be perfectly libertarian
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[quote user="Byzantine"] That is a silly statement. Racism may be anti-Objectivist (unless you're talking about Palestinians), but it is not anti-libertarian. In a libertarian society, people would be free to discriminate based on race or any other generalized characteristic.[/quote] Of course people would be free to hold whatever beliefs
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[quote user="JAlanKatz"]I have a few friends who are truthers of various degrees, and also socialist in their economic policies. I can't fathom how one can hold these two positions together. They also tend to complain about corporate control of government, corporate welfare, and special privs - and I agree with them entirely, but I can't
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[quote user="Brainpolice"] [quote]I suppose my methodological individualism is much "thicker" than yours. Mine isn't limited to economics.[/quote] I've always thought that individualism applies to other things such as nationality and race as well (I.E. I consider racism and nationalism to be forms of collectivism that no
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[quote user="Inquisitor"] Is your friend a conservative or a liberal or something else? In the former case, Hoppe's Democracy - the God that failed might do the trick. In the latter, Rothbard's For a New Liberty and The Ethics of Liberty would be a softer introduction. In fact, the latter two texts are suitable for anyone. Hoppe's
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[quote user="Bank Run"] It may depend on what particular interest the person has. "Do you enjoy philosophy, history, politics, economics, psychology?" Metaphisics, and astrology, may be a tough stretch. I have loaned out my copy of The Road to Serfdom a few times with mostly positive responses. The P.I.G. to series are nice. My stepmom
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I’ve spent the last few years really immersing myself in learning libertarian theory, reading Mises, Rothbard, Bastiat, Rand, Hayak, Nock, Optiz, etc. and after a conversation with a friend of mine—a pretty hardcore liberal, as I use to be—I realized something: I wouldn’t even know where to begin to point him in the right direction. My conversion from
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I mean that in a purely definitional sense. There are people who call themselves libertarians, then procede to judge people in the manner suitable only to collectivist reasoning, that's true. Be we should be clear on the point, when it comes up, that to judge people based on race is the antithesis of the libertarian position.
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Deus, I agree that the allegations are serious. I think, to our unending chagrin, that racists will always leach onto the libertarian movement because it in the way it benefits everyone , it also gives them freedom of thought, and freedom to express those thoughts. A racist libertarian, however, is like a square circle; such a person cannot exist. We
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[quote user="Kakugo"] As we are talking snow is falling in Baghdad for the first time in centuries. Am I wrong or it seems that global warmers and gorites have gone into hibernation (or perhaps their vacation houses in Hawaii or Mexico) and will strike back when the weather will warm up again? If cutting CO2 production (or, much more likely