Stefan Molyneux: An Anti-Racist Perspective on His Political Career.

libertarianism is a fringe
ideology it is not presented as an important philosophy or an important school of economic thought in the universities of europe it is certainly not considered important in japan or china or africa or south america libertarianism is a fringe ideology that's very influential in the united states of america because it has had the patronage and support of some very wealthy and very influential people in the united states of america and in the united states of america only in the past few decades alan greenspan very important example most infamously perhaps the koch brothers now it is rare that i would attribute any shift in public political attitudes to a book let's admit it in the 21st century not a lot of people read books perhaps in the sphere of political discourse especially our views are much more likely to be shaped by things we see on television things we hear on the radio or even information that we learn here on youtube however bernie sanders had a hit book that sold millions and millions of copies and in that book there is a chapter advancing the narrative that the koch brothers are part of a top-down conspiracy to transform the united states of america and it characterizes the koch brothers methods goals and political positions with a selective reading of the earliest extant sources of what their political views were a lot of that evidence came from the 1980 elections that the koch brothers participated in well 1980 was a long time ago and it's also i mean understandably this is the bernie sanders perspective on the koch brothers it's not going to be a balanced view of who the koch brothers are what they want to accomplish what their political aspirations are no it's pretty much a hatchet job and let's face it guys nobody judges bernie sanders by the political convictions he had in the year 1980s so it's not really fair to judge the koch brothers with a selective reading of their political statements from 1980. nevertheless in this book bernie sanders put forward this sort of powerful new view of the significance of the koch brothers in american politics and thus of libertarianism in american politics as being this fringe ideology backed by billions of dollars and while it is true that the koch brothers have spent millions and billions of dollars trying to influence american politics it's somewhat amusing to me that this conspiracy theory narrative has developed with so little interest in understanding what the political agenda of the koch brothers actually is what you're looking at on screen now believe it or not is the front page of the koch brothers maine charity their umbrella charity stand together quote the tragic and unnecessary deaths of george floyd ahmed arbore brianna taylor and too many others demonstrate that our country has a long way to go to live up to our ideal of equal justice under the law are you starting to get the feeling that maybe bernie sanders didn't tell you the whole story about who david coke really was or what the koch brothers political agenda really means for the future the united states of america started to get the feeling that maybe what bernie sanders wrote and what a lot of left-wing people influenced by bernie sanders have been writing showed a lack of sincere interest in the evidence at hand i i continue quote we believe every person should be treated equally based on their individual conduct regardless of the color of their skin or the uniform they wear we believe there are government officials who dutifully honor their sacred oaths of office but there are also those who do not that includes police officers prosecutors judges corrections officers and other officials throughout the criminal justice system some of you in the audience will be leaping forward to complain that this is just a smoke screen that this is just like an illusion of left-wing or liberal values that are up on the website of the koch brothers main charity to distract you from their secret right-wing agenda or their dark libertarian designs on the future of democracy in america no david coke his whole life long described himself as a social liberal but an economic conservative one simple example that really would have meant a lot within his own family and within the social milieu he chose to live his life in of multi-millionaires most of whom support the republican party keep in mind david coke supported gay marriage bill clinton did not support gay marriage bill clinton did not even support equal rights for homosexuals in the military on many many issues david koch would have seemed wing compared to his own father compared to his own family members and compared to the company he would keep including yes when he was a star basketball player at mit if you look into the guy's life a little bit you start to see him as a human being and yes his political views did change dramatically in 1991 when he just barely survived an airplane crash and he apparently witnessed many other people burning to death in this self-same airplane crash so if you're going to pick and choose evidence from the year 1980 that really might not be representative of who he was what his political agenda was in all the years since 1991. now i am not a libertarian i don't even sympathize with libertarians i think their political philosophy is childish and stupid and dumb and i have had many debates with libertarians that just left me laughing at how they couldn't solve the simplest everyday problems in political science and i've had them explain to me how they really think the world would be a better place if taxpayers did not pay for sewage systems and like you ask them okay how are people gonna have clean drinking water if you don't have taxation and a government and coercion that actually prevents water pollution you know like you take away the sewage treatment plant and you take away the whole apparatus of the state that includes both taxation and you know regulation and yes coercion enforcement of the laws how do people get clean drinking water you know and their answers are just laughably stupid and childish and wrong i had one debate with a guy who's you know both a libertarian and an anarcho-capitalist out on that end of the spectrum and i said to him look if you sincerely believe that the world would be a better place if the government did not put any money into education whatsoever there's no role for the taxpayer there's no role for the state in education then explain to me how you would improve the lives of people right now on an ojibwe reservation on a navajo reservation on a cree reservation indigenous people in north america how would you improve their lives by shutting down all the schools taking away all the government funding and leaving them with no access to education whatsoever can we talk that through step by step and their answers are just childishly laughably stupid it's an outrageously dumb philosophy nevertheless i do not sympathize with fear about libertarianism i do not sympathize with bernie sanders lying about who the koch brothers are and constructing this narrative and i have no sympathy at all for people like nancy mclean who've really taken the next step in trying to make libertarianism into this bogeyman into this specter that is haunting american democracy yes i do think there's a reason why nobody in europe nobody in japan and nobody in china takes libertarianism seriously libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism do not deserve to be taken seriously as political philosophies or as approaches to economics and it just so happens that a handful of influential people like the koch brothers and like alan greenspan have made this a significant talking point in american politics in the 21st century but hey this too will pass long story short the political significance of the koch brothers is not what it appears to be and therefore you should find it completely unsurprising that i'm now going to reveal my hypothesis that the political significance of the rise and fall of stefan molyneux also is not what it appears to be stefan molyneux really is racist the koch brothers are not libertarianism per se is not even anne rand herself was vocally anti-racist specifically in dealing with the distinction between black and white in the united states of america the only way to abolish racism private racism is by advocating individualism and its corollary every society in a pre-society the white man's own rational self-interest would abolish racism and those who are irrational those who insist on running their business or their lives by racial prejudice would be their own victims they should be boycotted by rational men and they should be ostracized as that is those who are not racist should refuse to deal with those who are guilty of racial prejudice i'll just say that again i i don't support anne rand in any way her philosophy is laughable to me nevertheless ann rand was a vocal anti-racist when you know that it's less surprising to see so many statements on the front page of the koch brothers charity it's quite appealing to left-wing people today and centrist today in addressing the politics of the year 2020 but stefan molineux really is racist that always was his agenda over years and years from the dawn of his youtube channel there is a youtube channel called tulia cicero that has done a very good job of editing together the clips that will show you in just a few minutes just how racist stefan molyneux is and just how committed he has been to the pursuit of his racist hypotheses over many years and if you don't go to this other youtube channel italia cicero you would have to watch hours and hours of this guy lecturing to piece together what his racist political agenda really is i can't say to you that no libertarians are racist what i can say to you is that there's a deep distinction between people who are sincerely libertarian and people who are using the libertarian ideology as a smokescreen for something else quite often racism but sometimes also it may just be the convenience of a particular upcoming republican election there may be some other political agenda there sometimes particular examples are more important than general principles the example of school voucher programs is much more important than the general principles of libertarianism to understand the distinction i'm alluding to here between sincere and insincere libertarians in the united states of america some libertarians support school voucher programs because they really sincerely believe in expanding the role of the free market in education and reducing the role and responsibility of government education but guess what in historical reality in practice a lot of the energy a lot of the interest in supporting a transition to school voucher programs came out of white racist parents who did not want their children in the same classroom with black americans so the school voucher program was a kind of smoke screen for segregation for continuing to separate the rich from the poor the white from the black it was part of a struggle against the federal government encroaching on state and local officials and trying to force them to desegregate schools to integrate the black and the white the rich and the poor in one of the same classroom so that was a way for those people with that racist and elitist agenda to fight back against the federal government that just happened to coincide with and overlap with libertarianism the rise and fall of stefan molyneux shows that there are people so deeply committed to the racist white supremacist agenda that they will play a long con like this for years they will espouse libertarian principles they do not remotely believe in completely insincerely act out a pantomime of being a libertarian or anarcho-capitalist just to gradually draw people in to their fundamentally racist and fundamentally authoritarian right-wing world view i mean really people like to disrespect my crew but the fact is that you know my name and i don't know you