Mike Brock

“Yeah, it's very strange because you often find with extreme libertarians there's this sort of sense of like I just want to be left alone by the state but then objecting to people who are now being left alone by the state to do things that they want to do with their bodies. They want to present themselves as a different gender or they want to love someone of the same sex. I think when you pull back the layers of the onion on that, what you find is they really just only care about a very narrow set of economic goals. Keep as much money as they possibly can, they don't want it taxed, but generally speaking, they have very socially conservative goals. This actually speaks to another element of libertarianism. And I sent out a tweet on this the other day, which is a true story about how I left libertarianism. And what was like the actual straw that broke the camel's back was this sort of realization that I came to having a conversation with someone that this person was starting to talk in ways that were suspiciously sounding bigoted and, and quite frankly, racist. And I remember asking him straight up, I said, it really sounds to me like what you're really concerned about here is you want to use property rights in their most strict sense as an excuse to basically create an all white community in society.”