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And I don't mean the liberals who like to call themselves libertarians because it makes them sound smarter (Go back to pretending to be Buddhist beat poets, guys). I mean actual libertarians.
They have no believe in the institution of "society" - they don't believe that the social situation a person begins and grows up in has any impact on them in their later life. Thus they look at statistics like the low college graduation rates among minorities, and the conclusion they draw? Brown people are dumb. it's not that affluence breeds affluence and poverty breeds poverty; that's "Class Warfare™" and so can't ever possibly be true. it has to be because white people are just superior.
The overwhelming majority are vibrant, vociferous supporters of the confederacy, and even the ones who aren't buy into the "state's rights" bullshit. As raving capitalists, most are active proponents of slavery; they don't base this on race or ethnicity, but on social class (which is odd, given their pretentions that neither society nor class actually exist). of course, brown people tend to have the lowest socioeconomic rung so... heh. That's what they get for being inferior, right?
I haven't met libertarians that hate gays. Most are okay with gay people. They're just not okay with the big, evil, smelly government "overstepping its bounds" and giving rights and protections to gay people. Honestly the distinction is a little too subtle for me, but they insist on it.
Hatred towards liberals isn't a feature of libertarianism? I've had libertarians get in my face and declare that there needs to be a violent, bloody purge of liberals from government. Most I've spoken to seem enamoured of an "us vs. them" bloody civil war. They insist that liberals are behind every single atrocity in human history - even ones that aren't fucking atrocities (My favorite? "Those poor people in Sweden are living in chattel slavery to the state! They don't know how fucking bad they have it, because of how brainwashed they've been by their liberal overlords!")
Libertarians are almost entirely defined by what they are against rather than what they are for; and what they are against tends to be anything and everything that provides a leg up or protections to anyone who's not a white male that shares their own bloody, anti-government, shark-capitalist outlook.
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