STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY declares that in order to be a libertarian you MUST be for groups that have been “historically oppressed by the state”- which, of course, is a thoroughly CONTESTABLE position.

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-new-libertarianism

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Whereas libertarians of the past learned from classic texts, large books of integrated but contained theory, these young people extract information from an hourly blizzard of news, memes, videos, social media threads, texts, forums, tweets, and group hangouts.

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. “This necessarily means a special identity with groups that have been victims of State oppression and remain so in many parts if the world.”

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For this reason, we should embrace the ideals of feminism in the same way we embrace the anti-slavery cause. It is our cause, our banner, our history, our movement. We should never give this up to the oppressor class.

From this to the Euston Manifesto – Bible of the liberventionist religion – is not even a step.
http://eustonmanifesto.org/

While mouthing pieties about being tolerant, the piece is a clear call to be INTOLERANT of those it declares are bigots ….(but who are really to be censored and pushed off the web, because their views DECONSTRUCT the leftist ideology).

So these new, new libertarians are going to use social media to shout down views they don’t like.  Which is what the CIA does with Twitter and Facebook, anyway.

I’m waiting for the call to turn in people for “purist” thinking.