Ron Paul thinks it is perfectly peachy if business owners engage in racial discrimination. He thinks it's perfectly fine to put "no Negroes or Jews" covenants into deeds.
Paul lives in Cloud-Coo-Coo Land, for he seems to think that businesses wouldn't have survived if they discriminated. Paul ignores the historical truth that Jim Crow was alive and well throughout the South in the early 1960s. There was no way in hell that every diner, every store, every movie theater could have been desegregated without the force of law.
Paul exposes the ground-level logic fault of Libertarian/Randist ideology, which is that businesses will do the right thing because doing the wrong thing will cost them business and their reputation. Right. From the Radium Girls of the 1920s to the coal miners in Massey Coal's mines and the natural gas frackers who are poisoning the water table, there is no shortage of examples that show that business will almost always do whatever is expedient and will maximize profit, regardless of the risk it poses to the workers and the general public.
Does the above mean that Ron Paul a racist? Arguably not, but for that evidence, you have to look elsewhere, and it is not hard to find.
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"You can do anything you want as long as you don't hurt anyone."
But because they are ignorant and at most, have the maturity of a 12yr old, they never think past first tier reactions. Never think about the long term effects of their policies. See gold standard/lack of monetary system. See bartering.
Ron Paul is not the saint of Libertarians. What he represents, at least for Libertarians like myself, is a wedge in the tired and stale national debate.
I don't agree with him on many fronts, namely his fundamentalism; but his candidacy is a net plus...unless of course you're happy with the status quo. The media sure is.
Well, he's the laissez faire and "leave almost all governance in the states" candidate.
Judging by his track record, I suppose he would have attempted to handle the racism troubles of the 60's differently - and likely with more motivation than most politicians did in '64.
How would Paul have handled racial discrimination in 1964, other than trying to ignore it?
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