Politely, Up Yours!

Episode 004 | Politely Up Yours - Discrimination

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Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss the nature and acceptability/unacceptability of discrimination. The discussion touches on freedom of association, remedies for unreasonable discrimination, and becoming that which we claim to oppose.

Chapters:
  • 0:26 - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State
  • 3:01 - Rationality of decisions of individual actors?
  • 5:39 - Incompleteness of information
  • 7:31 - Consumer goods and producer goods
  • 8:39 - Our main topic of the day - Sexuality as illustration of the acceptability of discrimination
  • 11:19 - What is discrimination?
  • 14:34 - The example of a baker discriminating based on not wanting to bake a cake for a gay couple
  • 15:35 - Liberty - Freedom of association
  • 16:42 - Institutionalization of discrimination
  • 19:42 - Discrimination in employment and livelihood
  • 24:21 - The importance or nonimportance of membership in a group and how to approach judgement on color of skin
  • 27:51 - The futility of persuasion
  • 29:46 - The present and future of "runaway" discrimination
  • 34:08 - The primacy of sensitivity, empathy, and better parenting
  • 37:19 - Reciprocation of open-mindedness and freedom of association
  • 39:18 - Becoming the thing we claim to oppose
    • Resources:
    • Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
    • Oregon Wedding Cake Controversy
    • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    • "I have a dream" speech - Martin Luther King
      • ...more
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      Politely, Up Yours!By Joe Macaluso, Dave Rael