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A comment on San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide. Parent comment

Re:San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide by anbop on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:40AM (#19615126)
Have you paid attention to the “cityhood” movement in Atlanta, where white people are using their friends in state government to split themselves off from the black neighborhoods in their towns?
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Re:San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide by atom-morgan on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:16PM (#19616885)
I have not and if that's true, that's fucked up and why I'm a libertarian.

In the context of this argument, I think it's worth distinguishing between private and public actions. People have the right to be racist, governments don't.

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Re:San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide by anbop on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:52PM (#19618833)
Wouldn’t the libertarian position be that a group of people looking to secede from a municipality be allowed to do so? Even if they do so in a bloc that includes only wealthy neighborhoods plus lucrative commercial real estate?
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