Excellent News on Race Issues
After generation after generation of racism, diversity has become an unstoppable force. Especially if we stop talking about it.
Labels: blogging, racism, white privilege
posted by Dan at 1/27/2009 06:22:00 AM
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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6 Comments:
A lot of white dudes do, Meesha.
Does this mean that my friends here in Kansas City will support the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative next time around?
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Lance misses the sarcasm. I think MV is the only one who really believes that bullshit.
You're right. For a minute I thought that collectivism was being discredited. Not yet.
Lance - as our foul-mouthed anonymous cohort guessed, I was intending to be sarcastic in my posting. Even if I believed in the legitimacy of a libertarian utopia, it seems to me that a conversion to an unregulated economy would need to be accompanied by some sort of adjustment to current reality, wouldn't it? Or do libertarians really think that justice could be achieved by starting a "fair race" simply by firing the pistol, and having the disadvantaged and advantaged starting to run from their respective places?
No utopia has "legitimacy" except as an ideal toward which imperfect humans can strive. Since I'm sure you agree that goals are useful, do you recommend a different brand of utopia other than a libertarian one? What other kind could there be that ensures freedom for both of us?
Conversion to an unregulated economy would only involve the elimination of involuntary transactions. I'm not sure what "sort of adjustment to current reality" you imagine must accompany such a diminution of violence but if a business owner discovered an embezzler within her office would you recommend that she rid herself of the thief gradually or all at once?
Of course the foot race you describe in your last sentence isn't a fair one. But that scenario seems more analogous to our present system of racial discrimination than to a world in which government didn't embrace such division. I think justice is merely another ideal but treating individuals differently based on membership in a particular racial collective is not the best way to achieve it.
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