Selfish White Men

Via Jackart, my attention is drawn –  unfortunately –  to some wonderful idiocy over at Left Outside.

Apparently, wanting the state to leave us alone and, more importantly as this was the point Jackart was originally making, leaving others alone to live their lives as they see fit is, wait for it, the identity politics of selfish white men. I suggest you read Jackart’s original article that triggered this piece of buffoonery to see just how staggeringly daft it is. Yup, that’s right, Jackart decided that we shouldn’t ban t-shirt slogans that we don’t much like. The leftists, naturally, gainsay this approach. Banning that of which they disapprove, after all, is what they do best. And this, apparently, makes the world a better place for women. Oddly, Mrs L doesn’t agree with them and last time I checked, she is a woman.

I guess, that as leftists see the world through the prism of identity politics, they cannot grasp that those of us outside the rarified atmosphere of their self-righteous pompousness do not. Indeed, we despise it along with those who perpetuate this corrosive mindset. And as Jackart points out, political freedom is not a zero sum game.

I have to say, I’ve come across some pretty weird misrepresentations of the libertarian position in my time –  which, in essence, for the really hard of thinking, is at its most basic, little more than “leave me alone and I’ll do likewise” –  but this one is taking stupidity to new extremes.

But then, if having experienced leftist philosophy once exposed to the realities of the wild, one still believes that there is a place for it out here in the real world, stupidity is the least of one’s problems…

It’s why I am no longer a lefty. Which sort of leads me to a comment by Hayek quoted by the Nameless Libertarian. It’s why I am not a conservative, either. Indeed, socialists and conservatives are the same nasty authoritarians under the skin and as far as I am concerned I would visit a pox on both their houses. I have no desire to tell people what to do –  and certainly no desire to tell people what slogans they should or should not put on t-shirts.

If this makes me a selfish white man, I’ll wear the slogan with pride.

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