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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 681 Public Accommodation, Antidiscrimination, and How Minority Groups Really Advance

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If libertarians are going to take the nonaggression principle seriously, they have to oppose the doctrine of "public accommodation," even though 99.999% of the public supports it. Ryan McMaken's work on the true history of minority advancement makes our job here a lot easier.

Show notes for Ep. 681

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 681.

0:04.0

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.7

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods show.

0:14.8

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:16.2

Controversial subject, warning for you here.

0:20.2

Talking about the doctrine of public accommodation,

0:23.8

which is an adjunct of anti-discrimination law. And we're talking about it. It's a very controversial

0:31.1

subject, and it's one on which libertarians take a highly unpopular position. but we're going to look at a little more deeply,

0:39.5

and it might seem to make more sense and be more defensible by the time we're done talking about it today.

0:45.1

And I'm talking about it with Ryan McMacon, who is economics editor and communications director at the Meases Institute,

0:53.4

which you should visit at Mises.org.

0:55.6

You all know that's M-I-S-E-S-D-org.

0:58.2

And you can visit Ryan at Ryan McMakin.com.

1:02.4

These will be linked, of course, at tomwoods.com slash 681, as will be Ryan's recent article

1:09.2

on this general subject that I urge you to read.

1:12.9

So tomwoods.com slash 681 is where you'll want to go to get all this fun stuff.

1:18.5

Ryan, welcome back to the show.

1:20.0

Thank you very much.

1:20.9

It's great to be here.

1:22.1

Your article, The Trouble with Public Accommodation just blew me away.

1:26.8

So interesting. And I guess when you get to be our,

1:30.6

I don't want to speak for you. I don't know how old you are, but I'm 43, and I'm turning 44 very

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