Re: Libertarianism on Segregation?

On 01 Dec 2003 12:21:15 +0200, The Other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"Stephen Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The Other wrote in a message to All:
>> Is there any difference if integration is unforced?
>
>Unforced integration often causes conflict too.  Maybe the big
>difference isn't whether it's forced, but whether "white flight" is a
>practical solution.
>
>> I take it that the separation may be either forced or unforced. 
>
>You take it right.  Of course you need a very, very good reason to
>force separation.  What I meant was that separation reduces the
>conflict caused by integration.
>
>> But the experience of Yugoslavia, and South Africa, appear to
>> contradict that.
>
>Have you read Steve Sailer's new column today, "The Partition
>Possibility"?  It's at www.vdare.com.  After today I guess it will be
>moved to their Recent Articles column.

No, I hadn't. I'd never heard of him. But will look.

Without having seen it, though, I not the apartheid didn't work, but as soon
as we realised that, places like Yugoslavia adopted it. Cyprus suffers from
it. And Ireland. It doesn't seem to have solved many problems.

A Methodist bishop from here recently visited Palestine. Said it was just like
the bad old days here, same problems, only far les willingnes on either side
to seek a solution. Said the idea of "one man one vote" was almost
inconceivable.




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