Tests to see if your pals are really open-minded, reality-oriented Voluntaryists. State the following and gauge reaction:
Venezuela collapsed in large part due to US sanctions, not just “because socialism.”
John F. Kennedy was a terrorist leader no better than any other MSM bogeyman, burning children alive with napalm and escalating the Vietnamese conflict.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were massacres of innocent human beings of unprecedented scale.
Abe Lincoln viewed blacks and whites as irreconcilably different and wished to send blacks “back to Africa.”
George Washington and the other founding fathers were slaveholding hypocrites.
Implicit American exceptionalism has crept into even the most vocally “anarchist” groups, think-tanks, and conferences. It’s a wonderfully insidious way to keep anarchists and Voluntaryists from actually becoming a threat to the status quo: DANGLE A CHUNK OF PURE ANARCHIST PHILOSOPHICAL, JUICY MEAT ON A STRING, GET THE GOOD-HEARTED FOLKS LOOKING FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE SALIVATING, AND THEN QUOTE SOME KENNEDY INTO THEIR EAR, OR FIRE UP THE TWO-MINUTES' HATE ABOUT FOREIGN SOCIALISM!
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)