I Apologize to My Fellow Americans

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-28-2017, 12:47 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I thought it was well known that segregation was enforced by law, but here's a source.  It's not a great source, so if you are skeptical about such laws, we might have to find a more reliable one:

I don't question that there were laws in place.  The bigots had a working majority.  Of course they passed such laws.

(01-28-2017, 12:47 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: For a successful business owner, bigotry can't outweigh profits;

Bigotry was good for business.  If one followed the local traditions, one got more business than if one didn't.  There is nothing in the history books about second bathrooms and bubblers being abandoned, about restaurants and hotels spontaneously abandoning segregation due to economics or libertarian theory, of the southern states repealing the Jim Crow laws.  These are all figments of your values locked imagination.  MLK and LBJ should get credit for what happened, not Ayn Rand.

You remind me of Kinser denying Stalin's and Mao's famines.  You are putting your political and economic theories over the history of what actually happened.  Bigotry and segregation existed.  They went away due to a mostly non-violent series of protests resulting in government action.

(01-28-2017, 12:47 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Market forces would have done a fine job of equalization, if they had been allowed to operate without government interference.

I see this as libertarian doctrine with nothing to do with history.  Segregation went away due to government interference.  There is nothing to suggest that market forces were going to effect things at all any time soon.  Your theory that someday hatred and bigotry would have eventually faded away has as much validity as the Marxist notion that the state would wither away.  Bigots hate.  They will continue to hate until they are stopped.

Libertarian freedom of association is to a great extent just another ploy to justify the hate continuing.