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Originally Posted by SeanL
How can you support someone who is against the Civil Rights Act and panders to racist groups?
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Because if you listen to him talk, you'll realize he's the only one out of the white guys on the stage who ISN'T racist. He stated his support for the repeal of the Jim Crow laws (government forcing segregation) but also objected to the laws that required private property and business owners to behave in one way or another (government forcing desegregation, essentially). (
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Paul said he objected to the Civil Rights Act because of its infringement on private property rights. He said that while he would favor repealing Jim Crow laws, the United States "would be better off" without government intruding on and policing personal lives.
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In other words, a
truly color-blind government wouldn't force anybody to do ANYTHING one way or the other. Forced segregation is just as racist in nature as Affirmative Action. One may seem racist and the other standing up for minorities' rights, but in reality, the basis of
BOTH is that we are forcing people, businesses, and government entities to treat people one way or another on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Why, then, is one okay while the other is not? Dr. Paul demonstrates his ideological consistency in pointing out that both are unconstitutional intrusions of government on the rights of private citizens.
One of the consequences of liberty is that you have to coexist with people who don't share your views. At one point in time, people in this country fought and died to preserve the right to think differently (or even incorrectly). Your right to think and behave in a way that pleases you doesn't end when your opinions are, in the opinion of the majority, wrong.