Ep. 966 Left-Libertarians and Their Endless Moral Outrage

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Tom Woods

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🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Mises Institute president Jeff Deist, who was Ron Paul's last chief of staff, delivered an excellent and well-received talk at the Corax libertarian conference in Malta last week.

As usual, though, emotional hypochondria got the better of a small group of left- and establishment libertarians, who are denouncing the speech in hysterical terms.

The speech is so commonsensical, and the reaction on the part of this crowd so perverse and bizarre, that I can't let this episode pass. It's part and parcel of the "Ron Paul is a racist" libertarians who have resented Ron and affiliated institutions ever since being left in the dust after 2007.

So I'm going to play it for you, followed by my commentary. You need to hear it, so you can see for yourself the lengths such folks will go to in order to pretend to be outraged.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 966.
0:03.6	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.4	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.6	Folks, if you're like me, you were a victim of educational malpractice when you were in school.
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0:28.3	checking out my coupon page, libertyclassroom.com slash coupons. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:36.8	Here's what I'm going to do for this episode.
0:39.1	We're going to start off listening to a speech, an excellent common sense speech,
0:43.4	delivered by Jeff Dice at the Korex Conference in Malta over the weekend.
0:47.9	We had one of the organizers of that event on the show, a number of episodes ago, Martin Erickson.
0:53.2	We had a very good conversation with him about
0:55.6	libertarianism in Europe. So we're going to play Jeff's speech. I'm not going to give any commentary
1:01.1	right now. I just want you to listen to the speech. I want to hear what's a normal person's
1:06.2	reaction to the speech? Not an emotional hypochondriac. What's a normal person's reaction to the speech?
1:11.9	Because my audience is full of normal people. A whole bunch of them. A whole bunch of normal people
1:18.3	listen to my show. And I'd like to know your thoughts about the Jeff Dice speech. So here we go.
1:24.2	And then when it's over, I'm going to add some commentary about how crazed hysterics responded to this speech.
1:31.8	And by the way, when I listened to it at the time, and I was talking to people who were in Malta when it was delivered.
1:37.6	He delivered it via Skype because he was in Auburn for the Mises University, where they teach Austrian economics, and he
1:46.1	delivered it to the audience at the Mises Institute while also broadcasting it to Malta. So that's
1:53.3	what's going on here. I'm not going to include the Q&A session just because I want to just
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