Episode 004 | Politely Up Yours - Discrimination
- Author
- Dave Rael
- Published
- Tue 03 May 2016
- Episode Link
- http://politelyupyours.com/episode-004-politely-up-yours-discrimination
Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss the nature and acceptability/unacceptability of discrimination. The discussion touches on freedom of association, remedies for unreasonable discrimination, and becoming that which we claim to oppose.
Chapters:
- - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State
- - Rationality of decisions of individual actors?
- - Incompleteness of information
- - Consumer goods and producer goods
- - Our main topic of the day - Sexuality as illustration of the acceptability of discrimination
- - What is discrimination?
- - The example of a baker discriminating based on not wanting to bake a cake for a gay couple
- - Liberty - Freedom of association
- - Institutionalization of discrimination
- - Discrimination in employment and livelihood
- - The importance or nonimportance of membership in a group and how to approach judgement on color of skin
- - The futility of persuasion
- - The present and future of "runaway" discrimination
- - The primacy of sensitivity, empathy, and better parenting
- - Reciprocation of open-mindedness and freedom of association
- - Becoming the thing we claim to oppose
Resources:
- Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
- Oregon Wedding Cake Controversy
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- "I have a dream" speech - Martin Luther King
