On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's not like he campaigned on a white supremisist platform. In fact I'd put > good odds on a majority of the people who voted for him not having heard that > opinion till after the fact. Americans >are kinda stupid about elections that > way.
I don't think he is a white supremacist, honestly. I take his view as being more about the relationship between private business and government. He feels that there is no reason for the government to be able to intrude in the relationship between a business and its customers. Taken to the logical (or illogical) extreme that view point means letting businesses discriminate on the basis of skin color. That makes him an ideologue but not necessarily a racist. > Also it seems a very odd view for a Libertarian. I know they believe in the > absolute minimum laws, but the civil rights laws are ones that they generally > agree are neccessary. At least the >ones I've looked into seem to think that > way. Rand seems to be on the more corporatist side of the Libertarian philosophy. He appears to believe that corporations are an absolute good and, more precisely, that they are basically individuals. And if you take this view, America holds that individuals can have seemingly wrongheaded notions (like racism) but we still ensure them freedom of speech, association, etc. If you take this view to the extreme, once again, that means that it would be wrong to compel an individual (in this case a business) to associate with those that they would prefer not to, like black people. There is logic there even if I think it is wrong and rather twisted. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319303 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
