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Nov. 1st, 2010
Your Missing The Point Post of the Day
Nov. 1st, 2010 02:19 pm Good old Jordon Bassior said this to me today:
<i>Do you realize that only the "with money" part follows logically from your argument regarding the "libertarian" aspects of the 19th century? While it is true that, in 19th-century English-descended countries, it was better to be "white" or "Anglo-Saxon" or "male" than to be "non-white" or "not Anglo-Saxon" or "female," this bigotry had absolutely nothing to do with liberty, and indeed it was the spread of liberties in the Victorian Era that ultimately moved our societies toward being less racist, less ethnocentric and less sexist.</i>
He doesn't really understand why I'm finding this statement unintentionally funny.
<i>Do you realize that only the "with money" part follows logically from your argument regarding the "libertarian" aspects of the 19th century? While it is true that, in 19th-century English-descended countries, it was better to be "white" or "Anglo-Saxon" or "male" than to be "non-white" or "not Anglo-Saxon" or "female," this bigotry had absolutely nothing to do with liberty, and indeed it was the spread of liberties in the Victorian Era that ultimately moved our societies toward being less racist, less ethnocentric and less sexist.</i>
He doesn't really understand why I'm finding this statement unintentionally funny.