libertylol
  • LibertyBlog
  • Libertarian Book Club
  • Courses
    • RETHINKING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: HISTORY, THEORY, AND ECONOMICS BY ​STEPHAN KINSELLA
    • Cato's LEARNING ABOUT LIBERTY
  • About Us
  • Shop Liberty
  • Policy Analyses
  • libertyLOL Newsletters
LIBERTYBLOG:
MUSINGS DURING AN ERA OF DECREASING LIBERTY

Nicholas Sarwark's positions on Racism and War are Inconsistent

9/13/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture
Nicholas Sarwark appeared on Dave Smith's Part of the Problem podcast this week following the debate between them on Gene Epstein's Soho Forum.  The podcast is embedded below.

The exchange begins respectfully between the two and it only really breaks down when they begin discussing what each describes as the #1 issue facing America and the Libertarian Party. 

Sarwark believes this to be "Racism" while Dave Smith believes it's "Foreign Policy / The War State". 

This is when things get heated.  

Sarwark argues that President Trump's Wall on the southern border is racist because it disproportionately affects Mexicans, who have brown skin, and not Canadians who are white.  For simplicity, we'll ignore the other implications of the southern wall for now (ie., open borders, the movement of drugs that exist in the south which isn't a problem on the northern border).

He also notes that President Trumps “Muslim Ban“ was racist because the people in those countries are brown skinned, even if, admittedly, not all countries on the list were Muslim, nor were all Muslim countries added. 

He even claims that the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville during the "Unite the Right" protest is proof that racism exists and that it is more important than the death of thousands overseas.  

Dave Smith pushes back against this well moral inequivalence, but my focus is on something different.

At this point, Nick Sarwark doesn’t understand his own contradiction. Who are we at war with? The bombs that we drop, who dies when they explode?

If, very overwhelmingly, we are only killing brown people isn’t our foreign policy just as racist as the Wall?  Isn't it just as racist as the Muslim ban?  Is our foreign policy only killing Norwegians? Or is it killing brown people in the Middle East?


Nick, if you want to stay consistent please keep beating the drum against these policies that overwhelmingly affect minorities. Your conversation regarding our failed justice system because it inordinately affects minorities is ON POINT. 

Take that point to its logical conclusion though.  Our foreign policy also disproportionately affects minorities.  And by “affect“ I mean it kills them, ruins families, eliminates entire family trees, destroys cities, introduces famine, and also just happens to executed with OUR tax money.


The episode ended well with a dual call from Nicholas Sarwark and Dave Smith for people to join the Libertarian Party.

The Libertarian Party isn’t just made up of people who talk about liberty on the Internet, quite the opposite. Libertarian party is made up of those who actually show up.

Show up. Oust Nicholas Sarwark.  Principles over Party.

CoinBase Buy Sell Bitcoins Free BitCoin
FREE BITCOIN! When you buy $100 Bitcoin through this link, you'll earn $10 of FREE Bitcoin! (IMMEDIATE 10% ROI!)

MORE FROM LIBERTYLOL:

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    national debt

    Search the
    libertyLOL Archives:

    Archives

    December 2020
    November 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    March 2019
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016


    Picture

    Enter your email address for Liberty Articles sent DIRECT to your inbox!


    Search and Shop on Amazon.com!

    Tom Wood's Liberty Classroom

    "Get the equivalent of a Ph.D. in libertarian thought and free-market economics online for just 24 cents a day...."

    At Liberty Classroom, you can learn real U.S. history, Western civilization, and free-market economics from professors you can trust.

    Short on time? No problem. You can learn in your car.
    ​
    Find out more!


    Tweets from libertyLOL

Blog Home

Shop Liberty

libertyLOL Steemit Blog

Policy Analyses

About Us

Copyright © 2014.
​

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites
  • LibertyBlog
  • Libertarian Book Club
  • Courses
    • RETHINKING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: HISTORY, THEORY, AND ECONOMICS BY ​STEPHAN KINSELLA
    • Cato's LEARNING ABOUT LIBERTY
  • About Us
  • Shop Liberty
  • Policy Analyses
  • libertyLOL Newsletters