I rather think Richard Murphy could become a firm favourite of this blog, if only because he seems to be so crushingly ignorant. Check out this statement that he posted yesterday about the comments on a particular website:
...the libertarians and racists are out in force (why do they go together?)
Put very simply, they don't. The fact that those Murphy and his ilk would term Libertarians and racists might comment on the same website means absolutely nothing. It is a bit like claiming that Labour and the BNP go together because they have had party members serving together on a couple of local councils in the UK.
And if you stop to think about it for more than just a second, the concept of racist Libertarians actually makes very little sense. In order to implement racist policies, you need a high level of state intervention - something that Libertarians will instinctively be against. Indeed, two of the most racist states in history - Nazi Germany and South Africa under apartheid - made a veritable fetish out state control. And such states are clearly the opposite of what a Libertarian would want. Sure, you might be able to find some racists out there who dub themselves Libertarians, but the same is true of any political party/movement in the world. There will be racist Labour party members, racist socialists and racists tax lovers.
To try to lump Libertarians and racists together is frankly an ignorant thing to do, and looks for all the world like the desperate attempt to discredit an enemy that Murphy cannot argue against properly.
UPDATE
In the comments section of this post, Christie Malry points out that Murphy is now claiming that he is a Libertarian. Words fail me. I literally don't know what to say. It's a bit like Ed Balls claiming he's a Libertarian (although the way his leadership campaign is going he may yet do so) or Margaret Thatcher saying that actually she was a socialist. It is, not to put to fine a point on it, absolute bollocks.
Actually, I do know what to say now, and it's this: there is nothing Libertarian about Murphy. He worships at the altar of state control, seems to find taxation almost erotic rather than (at best) a necessary evil, and he wants to suppress free speech. The man isn't a Libertarian; if anything, he borders on facist a lot of the time.
Labels: Libertarians, Morons, Racism, Richard Murphy, Witless Morons
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 10:01 am
3 Comments
3 Comments:
He is a fuckwit all the time.
No, he's a frustrated Librarian... with bar far less grace than The Librarian.
Tim Worstall mocks him all the time, so he's the go-to guy for Murphy-baiting.
But maybe your reaction to Murphy's claim to be a libertarian should be "Woo Hoo!". There is no way that a statist like Murphy could realistically be called a libertarian, unless "libertarian" is a meaningless cheer word that people use to describe anything good. Just consider how every major political party in Britain has described itself as "progressive", thus rendering the word utterly meaningless.
If "libertarian" is being used in the same sense, which is the only sense in which Murphy's claim would not be absurd, it suggests that libertarian ideas have become far more mainstream than most libertarians realise. If that were not the case, why would Murphy even feel the need to contest ownership of the term?
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