A clueless guy came to our Ron Paul meetup group sporting a brown shirt and a buzz cut. by Billy Joe
(libertarian)
Saturday, December 29, 2007
It starts like a bar joke: This neo nazi came to my Ron Paul meetup group....
Actually, I am not positive the guy is neo-nazi, but when I asked him about his brown shirt and black tie, he got awfully evasive. He then suggested that there is possibly room for "national socialists" within our movement. Trying to be as nonconfrontational as possible, I explained that libertarianism is a philosophy centered on individuals, not class, religion or ethnic groups.Â
Maybe I should have been more forceful, but I don't think it was necessary. Our group organizer is black.  Many of our members are Mexican. Ron Paul's economic policies are based on the writings of Ludwig Von Mises and Murray Rothbard (both Jewish). I doubt he will be at the next meeting and if he is, maybe he will find something else to wear. Â
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If you simply cast him away, it will not refute his ideologies. You simply will push him back to his base that will support the way he thinks. All the better to embrace someone like this and talk to him. Let him see the good works being done and the kindness and brotherhood he can receive from those minorities he might *hate.*
Those that seek to perpetuate racism are the ones that tell you that you must be "forceful" with these people. Why not simply debate with him? Only a person with a weak argument forcefully reject anyone.
If you can change the mind of even one of these people, you have done good. Ron Paul is changing a lot of these minds. They are rejecting collectivism by supporting him.
The real racists are the ones that are planting the silly notion of shunning people in your head. Reject noone unless they are harmful to you or others.
The only way to refute racism is to talk about it.
Actually, there _is_ room for all manner of "evil" in libertarianism. As Ron Paul himself has stated, he's for liberty, not for how some people use their liberty. You can't use government power to make people "good".
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has attempted to do just that. It, in essence, criminalizes act of two consenting adult whites to form a contract based, in whole or even in part, on their race. The supposed "victim" of this "crime" is any member of a "minority" that would have been awarded the contract by one of the whites had the whites not been "racist".
Government interference in the preferences of these white individuals is an uncompensated taking of their rights and exacerbates mere preference for kind into hatred of minorities AND the government that so "benefits" minorities.
Denial of this reality by so many "libertarians" during the Ron Paul campaign's efforts to distance itself from "nazis" is merely evidence of how powerful this dynamic is.
What if you had a 'rainbow family' hippy who runs a very pro-cannabis website whose only banner ad what-so-ever is "Ron Paul 2008"? Isn't freedom (I prefer that term to 'liberty' which is granted for periods of time) all about, well choice? As a Jew, I know the ex-chief of security for the Arayan Nations of Canada! So what? He holds his beliefs, I hold mine. It makes for a fine night of old scotch and arguing.
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