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Political correctness pushers fling their piety at people much as zoo monkeys fling their feces at people.
So what’s an individualist libertarian to do?
One approach would be to fling the PC feces right back in their faces. If the correctness crowd demands that we live by their sanctimonious sermonizing let’s make them live by it too.
Here are three recent responses to political correctness from our fellow libertarians.
The sycophant donkeyphant
Libertarian James Snedden Jr. saw elephant and donkey figurines on the counter at the Licking County, Ohio, Elections Board when he filed his candidate paperwork.
Deciding that the display constituted "bias toward candidates for the two major parties" he filed a complaint with the board. The statuettes disappeared.
Being bipartisan is politically incorrect when there are more than two partisans.
In your face, Facebook
The Libertarian Party is protesting Facebook.
The LP had been running a "highly successful" Facebook ad to express its support of marijuana legalization until Facebook banned it a week after accepting it.
Facebook is famously anti-marijuana according to Cannabis Culture.
It's apparently PC to be anti marijuana and anti free choice as well, which prompted the LP's Kyle Hartz to call the social network's position 'bizarre."
The politically correct poor
What could be more PC than the poor?
Conservatives traditionally help the poor in their communities through church-based charities and non-government organizations but progressives absolutely need the poor, first to justify their grandiose statist redistributionist welfare scams and second to demonstrate the superiority of their refined and finely developed sensibilities. (Hillary once famously pontificated “Janitors have feelings too” as though Her Entitled Highness alone possessed such singularly superior sensitivities.)
So the announcement that “I’m a libertarian, and I hate poor people” is a definite in-your-face counter-PC attention-getter.
But Bevan Sabo explains at Free Market Mojo, "Like all advocates of free market capitalism, I seek the complete eradication of the poor."
He advocates lower taxes on wealthy producers who provide capital investment, which creates jobs, which lowers unemployment and raises wages, which increases goods and services, which lowers prices, which leads to a higher standard of living for everyone.
"It is my hope that eventually the poor will be eliminated altogether – having been lifted into a higher income strata," he explains.
Political correctness needs to become politically incorrect.
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Comments
Garry, why should only wealthy producers who make capital investments be the lucky winners in Bevan Sabo's scenario? What about the less-than-wealthy, or the wealthy who choose to blow the wad on a cruise or a Malibu beach house? I don't like exclusivity when it comes to "tax incentives." That itself is a form of PC and it stinks.
"The poor you will always have with you."
Poverty is relative. In a truly free market, those who had less than others would be motivated to work, save, learn, grow, and create.
Also, those who work hard and innovate, save and create will always have more worldly goods than those who do not. There will always be a segment of the population without the will to do what is necessary to obtain even abundant available resources.
And some just don't care. Read the history of the "hobo." Many of the "homeless" are on the streets and living under a bridge because they honestly want it that way.
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