Bigotry and Libertarianism

All alleged bigotry must be legally tolerated

bigotry  Bigotry is, broadly, having unfairly intolerant views regarding some (or possibly all other than one’s own: universal bigotry) opinions, ideologies, ways of life, or groups of people (by race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, etc.). The first thing to note is that people have an absolute libertarian right to be bigots in the expression and implementation of any such view, as long as it is within the framework of consenting persons and their libertarian property. This is part of free speech and freedom of association. Therefore, any alleged bigotry must be legally tolerated. If bigotry does result in initiated impositions on the persons and property of others, then it is the initiated impositions that need to be rectified (see restitution) and not the bigoted views in themselves (at least, not by any unlibertarian censorship, propaganda, and “education”).

Many self-described “anti-racists”, “anti-sexists”, and wokeists of all sorts typically accuse people of “bigotry” even when those people have entirely fair reasons for their views (not wanting self-described “women” with male genitals in real women’s communal changing rooms, for instance). So, it is ironic that wokeists are usually hypocritically bigoted in their own views. But the real problem is that they attempt to aggressively impose their views on other people; whether via state legislation or by physically attacking them.

See dogmatism; prejudice.

(This is an entry from A Libertarian Dictionary: Explaining a Philosophical Theory [draft currently being revised].)