• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    All the people who wanted to maintain segregation (i.e. Rand’s father) had principled stances. Should we admire them?

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        6 months ago

        In Rand’s father’s case? Libertarian nonsense about not being forced by the big bad government to stop with the ‘whites only’ bullshit.

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          6 months ago

          Ah. Free association is what it’d be called by libertarians. I see what you mean now.

          Was he against government-forced segregation?

          I’m kind of bad in these situations (from a libertarian perspective) because I tend to refuse to worry about things I like the outcome of.

          If you and I had incredibly similar views on how people should behave, and we both put time and money into achieving those outcomes, but I didn’t support using violence (libertarian reductionist view of government), does that mean I support things I’m ostensibly fighting personally?