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Rockefeller GOP
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« on: May 22, 2015, 11:55:41 AM »

Libetarianism is generally about maximizing the freedom of white men at the expense of everyone else, so the South.

LOL, you're quickly rising up the Democratic hack rankings, dude.
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« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2015, 10:45:07 AM »

Right-libertarians' most cherished belief is the sanctity of property rights. It's pretty easy to make a logical (if morally twisted) right-libertarian argument against abolitionism.
Not if that property is people.  Slavery is the antithesis of libertarianism.

Yes, I said morally twisted. I'm not alleging that all (or even most) libertarians are racist, but I can easily conjure up a right-libertararian who would be appalled at slaveowmers forced to give up their 'rightful property' because of a government regulation. To a racist who believes other races are 'below' them, an abolitionist coming to power would be the equivalent of a PETA goon coming to power and ordering farmers to release their cattle, chicken and pigs.

I mean, the vast majority of abolitionists believed Blacks to be an inferior race, of course,  too...
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