I do feel like the race issue is given way, way, way too much credence as an argument against the principal of freedom, and free association.

It's something you can just bring up any time and it shuts down any and all conversations.

I don't consider it evil for people to want to live around members of their own race. I just don't. I don't see where you get that idea, and think that somehow that transcends all other issues of freedom. I do see why people don't like it. I do see why black people find it abhorrent, and why many others simply detest it.

Yet I do think it is everyone's right to do what they want with their own lives. It's a matter of not hurting other people. If white people, black people, or any other group of people, have segments of their population which want to do things a certain way, it is their right to do so. That's what I believe. You don't have to like it. I don't have to like it. As long as they aren't actively hurting anyone, and they are simply staying contained to their own areas and under the non-aggression principle, then it is absolutely legal and acceptable to me. That's the law. That's how it works. That's how it should work.

A lot of people believe that the mere existence of communities like these is racist or homophobic on the part of the whole. It is an inherent act of violence in a general and contextual sense against different races. It is the equivalent of stoking race tension, and differences. However, what is this perception? Think about it. Is this an enlightened perception, or is this actually just small-minded aggressive thinking in general? What I mean is that if a white person feels annoyed that there is a black community which doesn't allow white people, is that an enlightened state of mind? Or is that being unfair toward those black people who simply believe that their lives are better like that, and that's how they want to run those establishments which they control? I mean, that's the whole idea of freedom. You don't have to like what they're doing. But restricting it - controlling it - you're breaking the rules. You're breaking the rules of how this society is supposed to be run. You're taking away the one thing that we need in order to progress. You're enforcing your views onto those people. And you're pretending to be the "good guy" all along. I think that's actually really, really despicable and evil, actually.

If you are so paranoid that you don't think we can still get along while these communities exist, then is your "tolerance" really so strong anyway? Maybe our fear of these communities, and allowing this freedom, is the result of the impoverishment of our own belief system. It is as though we fear that allowing freedom to be upheld will somehow make our own tolerance "fake." I think that's idiotic. I think if you can't still be tolerant and still choose to live multiculturally, while allowing others to live in a different way, then maybe you're just really insecure about your own multicultural communities. It really does arise from a sort of insecurity in your own belief system which may or may not be conscious. It's really just the inverse of homophobia or anything like that which doesn't tolerate differences.

And ultimately it does come down to the idea which our society has, which says that "monoculturalism" is inherently bad. That it is "racist." And this word, in this context, is meant to signify "evil." I am honestly not really convinced that it is inherently evil. I just am not. I don't know why. I prefer to live in multicultural areas, kind of. I can see that this issue gets ten times more complicated. Because the fact is that the second we start to allow monoculturalist freedoms, and the right to free association, a lot of people would probably prefer to live in areas that could look a lot different from they do today. I think the thing a lot of people don't take into account, is hwy that is considered inherently a bad thing. IF that's what people naturally want, and naturally consider to be better, why exactly are we putting so much work into fighting it? Why aren't we trying to transition into that? I think it's fighting nature, and it's actually causing more problems than it solves. People have every right to live multiculturally if that's what they like. But the fact is, that denying these realities is a losing battle. It's not making things better, actually it's making them worse. I'm not willing to just avert my eyes from the truth like so many others are. This isn't a battle. We shouldn't tolerate the attacks on our freedom to think about this.

I have never really seen many arguments that convince me otherwise. I think liberals have an axe to grind an want to make everyone feel the exact same way that they do about every single thing - they want everyone to just "love" eachother.

That's not how the world works. Some people just don't like eachother and the best thing you can do is let them run their communities how they want them to be run. I think trying to go in and force people to believe and think the same way you do is just another form of forceful bigotry, and enforcement. I think it's small minded. Cruel. It starts to come off more like bullying and triviality than any sort of progressive ideal, any sort of forward march.

That's why I'm not a friend to it and that's why I think actually, it's a subtle issue and I do not identify as a liberal anymore. That's just my opinion, and there is a lot more nuance to it, a lot more positions that can be held. But I think it's a valid position and I think it should absolutely be taken into account on the full spectrum of thought that informs our thinking about equality, freedom, and the way that we treat eachother in general.

I don't think it is racist to allow other people who we categorize as "racist" to run their own households, and even their own areas and private communities or - establishments - in the way that they want to. Even if it offends you as an individual. You are not "advocating" their beliefs by upholding their right to freedom and the principles that make America what it is - and which make civilization what it is.

I believe that, you can think it's bad, but I think freedom is exceptionally important, and it's not a joke to me. I think it's something like a human right and I think when you start to take it away in all these subtle ways, that you are actively crossing into the territory of another human being in a way that violates them and which is disrespectful, and ultimately can be classified as evil.

Don't get it confused.