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 @KindPragmaticLibertarian from North Carolina commented…2wks2W

I think they're just being consistent with the position of "libertarians can do whatever they want as long as they are not being compelled or compelling anyone else."

So they're not interpreting it as state-ordered segregation, but voluntary grass-roots level instead.

 @G3rrymanderMacawLibertarianfrom Illinois disagreed…2wks2W

There's no such thing as "voluntary segregation". "Grass-roots" could be people organizing without the government to impose segregation via small arms and clubs, as in the days immediately after Reconstruction, but it's still violence. There's no other way to do it.

 @KindPragmaticLibertarian from North Carolina disagreed…2wks2W

"I made this club for my friends only."

Nothing someone else does can compel them to let someone who isn't their friend in the club.

It is a logically coherent libertarian position. Where it breaks down is at scale.

 @G3rrymanderMacawLibertarianfrom Illinois disagreed…2wks2W

"Segregation" generally refers to scale, public property, civil society, etc. Also, to refer to the South again, when one group has a near total monopoly on "private property", they can create de-facto segregation, which gets in to the inherent coercive nature of "Libertarians"/

 @KindPragmaticLibertarian from North Carolina disagreed…2wks2W

Small scale examples of segregation exist all over right now. Go to any university campus and you can find [ethnic minority] club and such. Capitalism, at least as intended, is primarily incentive based as opposed to coercion-based. There is no system that is free from force.

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