Exactly. Government-mandated slavery was replaced by government-mandated segregation, which was replaced by government-mandated integration, and now the woke are calling for a return to government-mandated segregation.
Government is the problem because it attracts people who like minding everyone else's business but can't stand it minding theirs.
My Chartertopia eliminates all government employees, but that's hardly likely to ever happen. As long as there are any government employees, there will be discrimination other than meritocracy.
The simple solution is to allow Presidents to fire all government employees for any reason.
A meritocracy solution is to maintain separate public meritocracy lists for every government position, which anyone can take the tests for. When the position becomes vacant, everyone knows who will be hired next.
This assessment is way too kind to the "Civil Rights movement". Martin King was a communist. They never supported meritocracy, and they barely even pretended to.
They sent statist thugs to beat up citizens they didn't like. They had soldiers march citizens around at bayonet point.
King excused violent riots. It was the BLM of its time.
"But the thrust of the Protestant Reformation wasn’t separation of church and state. It was state-mandated Protestantism. "
The thrust of the Protestant Reformation was an attempt to re-examine the traditions that had arisen over 15 centuries of Christianity, and get back to the teaching of the Bible. Luther was the one who got the ball rolling with his 95 theses, but other people got involved, and several had ideas that were more radical than those of Luther. The anabaptists, who arose very soon after Luther started thing, were very soon questioning the church - state connection.
So, while the Reformation did not, in and of itself, advocate separation of church and state - but it did open the door to examining the matter.
Exactly. Government-mandated slavery was replaced by government-mandated segregation, which was replaced by government-mandated integration, and now the woke are calling for a return to government-mandated segregation.
Government is the problem because it attracts people who like minding everyone else's business but can't stand it minding theirs.
Well said!
No need to outlaw discrimination in government employment is we eliminate government employment.
My Chartertopia eliminates all government employees, but that's hardly likely to ever happen. As long as there are any government employees, there will be discrimination other than meritocracy.
The simple solution is to allow Presidents to fire all government employees for any reason.
A meritocracy solution is to maintain separate public meritocracy lists for every government position, which anyone can take the tests for. When the position becomes vacant, everyone knows who will be hired next.
The Civil Rights Movement is a huge statist conspiracy. Covertly.
Structurally the same as totalitarianism. With millions of useful idiots supporting it.
This assessment is way too kind to the "Civil Rights movement". Martin King was a communist. They never supported meritocracy, and they barely even pretended to.
They sent statist thugs to beat up citizens they didn't like. They had soldiers march citizens around at bayonet point.
King excused violent riots. It was the BLM of its time.
Excellent dive into MLK's philosophy - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-brandon-terry.html
"But the thrust of the Protestant Reformation wasn’t separation of church and state. It was state-mandated Protestantism. "
The thrust of the Protestant Reformation was an attempt to re-examine the traditions that had arisen over 15 centuries of Christianity, and get back to the teaching of the Bible. Luther was the one who got the ball rolling with his 95 theses, but other people got involved, and several had ideas that were more radical than those of Luther. The anabaptists, who arose very soon after Luther started thing, were very soon questioning the church - state connection.
So, while the Reformation did not, in and of itself, advocate separation of church and state - but it did open the door to examining the matter.