Re: Libertarianism on Segregation?

Kater Moggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>      Talk about it to Leo Frank:  railroaded on a murder charge
> and then lynched when the Georgia governor commuted his sentence to
> life in prison.

Yep.  That's what I called the one serious objection: If you decide
that mild prejudice and voluntary discrimination are acceptable, then
you're making stuff like this less unacceptable.  On the other hand,
there are a fair number of race-based murders these days -- I'd guess
more than in Leo Frank's time -- even though prejudice and
discrimination are officially considered the worst form of evil.

Does an anti-discrimination policy reduce violence?  Again, consider
all consequences, intended and unintended.  Example: One unintended
consequence of racial integration is an increase in racial violence in
the schools/prisons.  I'm already getting off-topic here because these
institutions of learning are government-funded, but to the extent
racial segregation would be allowed -- say, school and prison inmates
given the choice of going to integrated or de facto segregated
institutions -- this one type of violence would be reduced.  I think I
read something about some major city implementing something like this,
with a special school for gay high school students who are getting
persecuted by the other students.

The principle is, forced integration leads to conflict.  Separation
reduces it.