re: #916 iossarian

I’m not naive. I’m looking at the actual history that led to the civil rights legislation. Was it the government who finally said to the people “hey, segregation is bad. you should stop doing that” or was it the other way around. To say that attitudes weren’t changing; that the trend wasn’t toward desegregation is to completely ignore what actually took place. Would it have been an overnight thing? Of course not. The civil rights movement wasn’t an overnight phenomenon. It would have taken a sustained movement to make racism economically inviable. That was occurring. It’s called the boycott. I’m saying violence shouldn’t be used against non-violent actors even if you think your end is desired.

I’ve read some locke and do believe in his theory of property rights as I understand it; that is, that property rights come from the mixing of ones labor with the soil, so to speak.