I find libertarians to be a very mixed bag. Their biggest issue is usually not understanding how much power they’ve been given, and what it would actually take to return that power to people who have historically not had much. I would think that a black man would have better context.
From what I’ve heard of afroman speaking he seems to feel that he has “hustled” his way into the American dream and that those who haven’t achieved the American dream just need to hustle more. He clearly understands that structural racism exists, but it’s easy enough for someone in his position to suppose that anyone can succeed despite any disadvantages, and take pride in the fact that he has done so. It’s a common mindset of people who have become moderately wealthy to believe that the system works (since it worked for them) and feel that that the government - rather than helping - should simply “get out of people’s way.” Libertarians see taxes on the rich and regulations as just making it harder for people to succeed, and don’t really have a good understanding of the power that wealth and privilege gives you over others. They see power as stemming only from the state.
It can also just be as simple as pure self-interest. “Why is the government taking all my hard-earned money!! I gotta do something about these taxes, this is theft!!!”
I find libertarians to be a very mixed bag. Their biggest issue is usually not understanding how much power they’ve been given, and what it would actually take to return that power to people who have historically not had much. I would think that a black man would have better context.
From what I’ve heard of afroman speaking he seems to feel that he has “hustled” his way into the American dream and that those who haven’t achieved the American dream just need to hustle more. He clearly understands that structural racism exists, but it’s easy enough for someone in his position to suppose that anyone can succeed despite any disadvantages, and take pride in the fact that he has done so. It’s a common mindset of people who have become moderately wealthy to believe that the system works (since it worked for them) and feel that that the government - rather than helping - should simply “get out of people’s way.” Libertarians see taxes on the rich and regulations as just making it harder for people to succeed, and don’t really have a good understanding of the power that wealth and privilege gives you over others. They see power as stemming only from the state.
It can also just be as simple as pure self-interest. “Why is the government taking all my hard-earned money!! I gotta do something about these taxes, this is theft!!!”