Cultural Libertarians From History

Klopek_ · 2015-08-28T19:38:21+00:00

I have no problem with the term "cultural libertarian" -- seems like a pretty good fit -- but it's important to remember that not all people who oppose the current crop of insane SJW's embrace right-libertarian economic and political views.

Several of the people on that list are actually libertarian socialists/anarchists, including Wilde and Chomsky.

Aside from violent campaigns against outspoken blacks, the most significant free speech battles in the US occurred during the early 20th Century. Almost all of the victims were anarchists and to a lesser extent socialists. The IWW, an anarcho-syndicalist union, fought for the right in over a dozen cities just to speak in public. They were often imprisoned, tortured and murdered by police and state-backed vigilante groups. Following the assassination of McKinley, Congress passed the anarchist exclusion act, which allowed for the deportation of people with anarchist beliefs.

During WWI, the sedition act allowed for the imprisonment of anti-war voices, including Socialist leader Eugene Debs, who received 2 million votes for the presidency while in prison.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the current authoritarian wave of SJW's is not a new phenomenon, they just identify with the left instead of the right (it never seems odd to these "leftists" that the men in power, whom they ostensibly despise, support them in their quest to push identity politics on the rest of the population -- I think they're useful idiots, personally).

Title	Cultural Libertarians From History
Author	eaton80
Upvotes	15
Comments	1
Date	August 28, 2015 6:06 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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