Racial discrimination aside, it gives me hope to see liberal/libertarian ideals holding against the ever expanding state in almost every country on Earth. Liberty and self determination are dying virtues, and people don't know what it is they're giving up so willingly.
Orania is managed as a private company, and the town council retains a tight grip on who can move in. Each prospective resident is carefully screened—not by race, the council claims, but by avowed devotion to Afrikaner culture. Either way, the end result is the same: All of the town’s 1,500 or so residents are white.
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challenging me to name a country where "blacks have gotten it right"
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There is a map of South Africa, with a magnifying glass hovering over Orania. The village is surrounded by spear-bearing Africans and huts emblazoned with ANC flags. The introduction reads: "The year is 2017 AD. South Africa is entirely occupied by the blacks. Well, not entirely … One small town of indomitable Afrikaners still holds out against the invaders."
That's an allusion, not evidence. They're not a gated community in Johannesburg, they're a town in the sticks and every culture on earth self-segregates to some degree or another. It sounds like the Wired author found a peaceful community is wanting to change that because they read racism into where there may not even be any.
I'm just assuming that for a population that makes up 10% of the total population to make 100% of the community, race is probably an active differentiator, although of course that's not necessarily the case.
For countries where economic standing/language/culture are very highly associated with race, then it's entirely possible for populations to sort themselves along racial lines without race actually being an active factor...I think it's just the "100% white" part that is making me assume that it's likely a factor.
Subscribing to a political ideology for selfish or hypocritical reasons is hardly rare. I suspect there would be few libertarians left in the world if their motives had to be pure. Most just want to not pay taxes.
I wouldn't trust a state that's threatening taking to take land without compensation. A state that's electing leaders who sing "Kill the [insert your racial identity]". Would you? Whether or not they were a-ok with a different state doesn't matter, should they be punished for that? What about their children?
I could be wrong, but I didn't see an example of them being "libertarian to the extent" of anything, in that they do leverage the state insofar as it furthers their racism. They just strike me as libertarians that may or may not be racist.
