tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post2524846192435161859..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Are School Vouchers A Path To Religious Freedom?Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-14883944471498598492021-03-19T18:27:44.536-04:002021-03-19T18:27:44.536-04:00Libertraian is consistently an effort to make the ...Libertraian is consistently an effort to make the perfect into the enemy of improvement. The right wing list interest in schools once they lost control of what is taught in them.northierthanthouhttps://northierthanthou.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-60389524067248849422019-10-03T08:45:27.456-04:002019-10-03T08:45:27.456-04:00I’ve never met a Libertarian who did not suffer fr...I’ve never met a Libertarian who did not suffer from a blissful unawareness of their own privilege. The undercurrent of winner-take-all and might-is-right in Libertarian philosophy makes espousal of vouchers make perfect sense, given the racism that drives many voucher decisions: “Getting away from those terrible public schools [where they let anyone in]”. “Choice” as king so we can pretend all options are equally available to everyone in our society. It’s a terrible brutal idealism, Libertarianism, where they assume that they will always be on top, a sort of God-Free Calvinism that posits that freedom from government will benefit everyone because it will benefit them, since obviously it is their choices and natural superiority that have led them to where they are, and not privileges bestowed by a society and reinforced by government structures. I guess the Libertarians you know aren’t the same as those I’ve run across. This vast illogic of supporting vouchers, as you’ve laid out here, does not surprise me in the slightest.<br /><br />Once I had a small boy argue with me that using a rotation system to assign which children got to use the beanbag chairs was unfair, because the child (him. Always him.) who got there first clearly WANTED to sit there more and therefore should be able to. I always think of Will when I hear Libertarians talk.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com