Apparently, Lots of Libertarians Don't Think Women are People Either

[paft.livejournal.com]

So The Mercatus, a right-wing think tank, has declared North Dakota -- which recently passed an incredibly restrictive anti-abortion law, one of the free-est of all the fifty states

Once again, we see that when right wing libertarians use the word "liberty," they're using their own extra-special definition of it. As Salon has pointed out reproductive freedom apparently isn't even entered into the calculations,

Women, you see, just don't count.



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Comments

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

He tried do that when and where?

According to Clay Jenkinson, Jefferson tried to introduce anti-slavery legislation on a few occasions in Virginia, never at the national level. I'm not sure when.

If people from Pennsylvania and New York, where the largest slave populations in the North existed, could do that, the Virginians were on rather thin bases to claim it was outside their power.

In his book 1493, Charles Mann presents a theory I had never heard; malaria. Big problem in the South, not so much in the North (too cold). The border of the malarial skeeter breeding ground was essentially marked by the Mason-Dixon line.

As indentured servants arrived in early colonial times, up to 70 percent croaked in the south. Those that survived the year-long acclimation to the disease served their term of labor, then went off to start their own claim rather than stick around and work existing farms. The land was still abundant (once your screwed over the local native tribes).

Given this, and given the immunity many west Africans have to the more debilitating malaria, the South slowly began replacing white indentured servants with black West Africans. Over the decades, this became the tradition.

He even noted that the plantation estate most envision is perfect to avoid mosquitoes. Surrounded by lots of lawn (no puddles for breeding); big windows to promote airflow. It makes some sense.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That's a curious argument given that by the time the US colonies were in full swing with the Atlantic Slave Trade, it already existed in great numbers in South America and indeed had its biggest customers there. Reliance on black slaves gives the USA more similarity to its neighbors south of the Rio than difference, especially in terms of the long term danger zone caused by that particular culture's influence.