Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Libertarian Debate: The Civil Rights 'Dilemma'" video.

@Barskor1 The southern states, literally, said they were separating over slavery, and enshrined slavery into their constitution. The Civil War was always about slavery. The north still had segregated military units and widespread racism, even if they were anti-slavery. The nation still allowed Jim Crow laws, and all kinds of discrimination to take place, after the Civil War, for another century. Even immediately after Lincoln's assassination, Johnson stopped reparations and even gave any land that had been given to freed slaves back to the former slave owners. Anti-slavery doesn't necessarily equate to not a racist, or not a bigot.
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@NikhilVandanapu The US was built on free government handouts of land. They weren't Libertarians back then.
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@Barskor1 That's why I said "after the Civil War", dumb dumb.
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@robinsss There were land grants during colonial times right up until the revolution, and there were land grants between the revolution and the Homestead Act. Back in the day, "property tax" also referred to all property owned, not just land and home. The US was also built on slavery. From the perspective of the owner, having the freedom to own other people might be considered libertarian, but from the perspective of the ones being owned, not so much.
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@robinsss Say what? "Libertarian" only equates to the federal level? State and local governments can tax as much as they want and/or be as restrictive as they want? Puritans, that made PDA illegal, burned witches, etc., were "libertarians", simply because they weren't federal? Slave owners were "libertarians" right up until the federal government okayed slavery? That makes zero sense. Look up the headright system, look up William Penn handing out free land in Pennsylvania, look up the US recognizing Spanish land grants after acquiring Florida, as a few examples.
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@robinsss Many were also leaders and representatives of their states, cities, and towns. Those were taxes they didn't revolt over. They didn't create federal laws banning any and all taxes. How is it not representative of what they were and weren't okay with? Did you even try Googling "headright system"?
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