Turns out "free market" is just another racist buzzword.
It is this last point that I want to talk about more, because the people who are making this “free market solutions” argument are ignoring, I think in most cases deliberately, that the “classic liberals” (which is a euphemism for “reactionaries that dress their assholery up in fancy pants language") of their time were supported by the Tea Partiers of their time, and the latter were under no illusions about why they preferred “free market” solutions. And that reason is they wanted to keep black people out of their stores, neighborhoods, etc. And their rationale for this was.....economic. They believed and argued strongly that black customers are bad for business. They did not believe black money spends as good as white money.
Always remember, if it wasn't for desegregation laws in the 60's, we would still see all-white businesses today across the south. The so-called "free market" establishes more racism than it eradicates.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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