Should City Government Mediate Race Relations?

Vincent J. Curtis

31 Mar 2019

You couldn’t be more blatant about asking for a handout from the city council of Hamilton than by alleging the existence of a race-relations problem in the city and then presenting yourself as the person to deal with it.

The whole idea of the city mediating race relations is absurd.  Race relations in the city is a neo-Marxist collectivist idea.  It carries tons of undeclared philosophical assumptions, all of which are antithetical to western ideas of individual liberty.  Treating people as categories and not at individuals with individual rights is a Marxist idea.

A role of civic government is not to mediate relations between the races.  Insofar as it mediates relations between private individuals, it does so by means of a police department and by-law enforcement.  That’s it.

It would require a massive expansion of government power and reach to claim and enforce the power of mediating relations between the races.  But that’s the whole idea, isn’t it?  The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is power.  And the government will pay to advance a neo-Marxist agenda.

Seen it all before.
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