Everyone will embrace diversity and multiculturalism. Therefore, fixing the social problems will let everyone be treated the same and the gaps between the races will close.
This let’s them wriggle free from the vice of freedom and anti-racism, by claiming that systematic social inequity is the cause of racial differences. This is why libertarians have been forced to embrace egalitarianism. In other words, there is no need fro freedom of association. Benjamin starts spinning around like a top, trying to re-frame Taylor’s point as compulsory segregation. When that does not work, he then says that everyone he knows loves diversity and they want to forget about the whole race and ethnicity stuff. You see this in the interview at about the 10 minute mark. Places where you need to get permission from authorities to be around other people are called prisons.īut, there are no modern libertarians who embrace this as it runs afoul of official orthodoxy on race. Progressives have declared private discrimination to be a mortal sin. That means having the right to not be around people you don’t like, for any reason or no reason at all. After all, what can be more basic to personal liberty than the right of association? If you can stuff your body with illicit drugs, because you own it, you should have the right to put your body near whomever you like.
In theory, libertarians like Benjamin should embrace freedom of association. At some point, a peaceful divorce will be arranged. The logical solution is to junk the compulsory integration and let people do what they do naturally, which is self-segregate. Compulsory integration over the last 40 years has done nothing to improve the lives of blacks and nothing to improve relations between the races. In the video, Jared Taylor makes the reasonable point that race relations in America are at a standstill because blacks are fundamentally different from whites. He styles himself as an intellectual, but he is just another shallow end of the pool libertarian, afraid to venture into deeper water. He’s also made a habit of going after feminists, who always take the bait.
He used to spend his days attacking alt-right people on twitter with this tactic, but they largely ignored him. His go-to move for years was to post gay porn into the twitter feed of people he was trying to provoke. He is also an incandescently obnoxious troll, who goes out of his way to pick fights with people on-line. That means he embraces the libertine social polices of the Progressives, but he likes getting cheap stuff from Amazon without paying sales tax. His views are consistent with what you see from the Reason Magazine types. He describes himself as a liberal, but to Americans that should be understood as libertarian. Benjamin is a British provocateur who goes by the handle Sargon of Akkad on social media. They both operate in the same narrow space.Ī good way to illustrate this is with this interview Carl Benjamin conducted with Jared Taylor. It’s why the differences between libertarianism and what passes for conservatism are trivial now. Libertarians have gone down the same road, embracing the morality of Progressives, while trying to find a way to carve out a place for individual liberty within that moral framework. The reason that Buckley Conservatism completely failed to halt the advance of Progressivism is that the Buckleyites eventually came to accept the moral framework of the Left.