Comments on: More Racial Ugliness From Paleos

By: Brian Moore

Brian Moore — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:50:11 +0000

Absolutely intolerable. I can’t even stand to read that.

“He even makes a specific argument against individualism, calling it irrational as commonly understood.”

Yeah… you can’t separate libertarianism from individualism. You can’t say things like that and expect to have any right to be considered a libertarian.

Complete and total crap.

By: Greg N.

Greg N. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:05:07 +0000

CLS has always been a Rothbard/Rockwell project (Rockwell is the current VP of CLS). Whether there’s any “official” affiliation with the Mises Institute is irrelevant; the relevant personnel are the same.

By: Russell Hanneken

Russell Hanneken — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:30:42 +0000

The Journal of Libertarian Studies is today published by the Mises Institute, but in 1996 it was published by the Center for Libertarian Studies, which I believe had no official connection to the Mises Institute. I do get the impression their staff came from the same Rothbardian/paleo-libertarian clique. Today, the JLS is edited by Roderick Long, who describes himself as a "left-libertarian." Long's views seem a bit out of step with those of his predecessors, and I think it shows in the issues of JLS that have been published since he assumed editorship.

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Libertarians, Old and New « MANSIZEDTARGET.COM — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:26:15 +0000

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By: Persona non grata

Persona non grata — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:13:57 +0000

Label this, thpppt.

Labels are used inorder to obscure the truth or hide fear.

They certainly never help with defining a debate.

By: Dave Empey

Dave Empey — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:26:23 +0000

Jerri,

look at the top of page 316.

(I found it instantly with a search for “black time”.)

By: Jerri Lynn Ward

Jerri Lynn Ward — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:14:14 +0000

“swifter imposition of harsher sanctions on blacks than whites for the same infraction, in light of higher black time preferences, and (in light of the apparent more rapid maturation of blacks) treatment of blacks as adult offenders at an earlier age than whites” (p. 306).”

I went to the link where the article resides and went to p. 306 and did not find the above. Instead, I found information about Africa. I plugged the sentence into my search engine and got no hits. I scanned page by page of the article and looked for the above, and found nothing. What I found was analysis of data. I didn’t read line by line because this was some complex stuff.

Has anyone else found the offending sentence?

Analysis of racial differences in intelligence is of absolutely no interest to me. I do not judge God’s children on the basis of race or intelligence. I leave that to the social darwinists and evolutionists.

By: David in GA

David in GA — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:59:49 +0000

I can only speak for myself but I think many suburbotarians had a similar position. The Ron Paul newsletters were common knowledge among libertarians (unless you don’t read your own magazine) but as soon as a mainstream publication “discovered” them, cosmotarians who had been supporting Dr. Paul suddenly couldn’t condemn him harshly enough or often enough. The criticism had nothing to do with your anti-racism stance and was certainly not in defense of the content of the newsletters. It seems to me like this post is implying that anyone who criticized the cosmo crowd is a racist or racist supporter but that is just not the case.
However, your work on other issues is outstanding.

By: Greg N.

Greg N. — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:57:12 +0000

By quoting these people, you’re just smearing them.

I didn’t know the Orange line extended into Del Ray, but one day you and your fellow STATO/(t)Reason turncoats (except Gene Healy) will pay for these attacks.

By: Christopher Monnier

Christopher Monnier — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:53:46 +0000

Put me in the cosmotarian camp.

By: johncjackson

johncjackson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:26:08 +0000

Just wanted to say I haven’t read this site in awhile. I was reading from top to bottom. So I didn’t get the the Lew Rockwell on Rodney King post before I made the above comment. getting ready to read that now and see if it matches up with my memory.

By: johncjackson

johncjackson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:21:29 +0000

I wear the cosmotarian label as a badge of honor, though I’m not sure what to do with it.

This sort of “swift justice” for blacks was also advocated by Lew Rockwell, IIRC, in his articles about/after the Rodney King incident. I also remember him writing ( or was it Rothbard?) something about how the police should be allowed(required?) to beat suspects as immediate punishment only subject to civil penalty ( I guess only if they had the wrong guy and knew they did or something).

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:53:14 +0000

You bastard. I just read ALL of that thing. Ad a favorable review by another Mises publication from 1998.