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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 3478532" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>Not an expert on libertarianism. The most prominent libertarianish politician that I’m aware of is Rand Paul. When he was running for his Senate seat in like 2009 or 2010, he gave an interview that I watched. He was asked a question about the 1965civil rights bill and whether he supported its passage.</p><p></p><p>He basically said no because he thinks people have a right to be racist in their private businesses.</p><p></p><p>His reasoning was so terrible that I remembered thinking is this how libertarians think?</p><p></p><p>Yeah, they think there is some kind of magical force field of separation between giving private businesses the legal right to be racist that wouldn’t involve the government being racist.</p><p></p><p>Yet if you give private businesses the legal right to be racist, the police, the courts, elected officials will have to write laws and legally enforce and defend their right to be racist, which means the government will be carrying out racist policies against Americans</p><p></p><p>There is no way to separate the two and so the government made the correct decision that the government isn’t going to give private businesses a legal right to be racist that the government will then have to enforce and defend, which means de facto the government would be enforcing and legalizing racism against American citizens.</p><p></p><p>The fact that Rand Paul hadn’t or couldn’t work that out in his mind, and I was like libertarianism is useless to me. It’s for those who view politics as a mental exercise as a philosophy without taking in the real world implications. Not for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 3478532, member: 66082"] Not an expert on libertarianism. The most prominent libertarianish politician that I’m aware of is Rand Paul. When he was running for his Senate seat in like 2009 or 2010, he gave an interview that I watched. He was asked a question about the 1965civil rights bill and whether he supported its passage. He basically said no because he thinks people have a right to be racist in their private businesses. His reasoning was so terrible that I remembered thinking is this how libertarians think? Yeah, they think there is some kind of magical force field of separation between giving private businesses the legal right to be racist that wouldn’t involve the government being racist. Yet if you give private businesses the legal right to be racist, the police, the courts, elected officials will have to write laws and legally enforce and defend their right to be racist, which means the government will be carrying out racist policies against Americans There is no way to separate the two and so the government made the correct decision that the government isn’t going to give private businesses a legal right to be racist that the government will then have to enforce and defend, which means de facto the government would be enforcing and legalizing racism against American citizens. The fact that Rand Paul hadn’t or couldn’t work that out in his mind, and I was like libertarianism is useless to me. It’s for those who view politics as a mental exercise as a philosophy without taking in the real world implications. Not for me. [/QUOTE]
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