Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics

I think the thing that bothers me most about libertarians...

…is the fact that they’re always crying, “But that’s not fair!” I have to pay more taxes. I have to pay for that guy’s social services. I have to pay more health insurance—even though I’m not sick—because other people are sick! If I’m equally qualified for a job/scholarship/some other social reward as a “minority”, the law requires the person giving the reward to give the reward to the “minority”—and even though no one ever follows that law, and I’m probably going to get the reward anyhow, that’s just so unfair and wrong! Oh, poor pitiful me for being white and/or male and/or well-educated and/or in a privileged economic class!

But the first time one of the rest of us goes, “But that’s not fair,” when we are talking about women or people of color or people of a less privileged economic class, you better BELIEVE you are going to get called out on it.

The “free market”—which is essentially just an economic system in which the wealthy, powerful, and educated get to do whatever the fuck they want, and the rest, being lesser beings, don’t matter so who the fuck cares what they do—is the great equalizer! (Even though we know it’s not.) It will magically disappear all the inequities of our society! (Even though we know it won’t.) And whatever inequities it doesn’t get rid of, well, you can just suck it, because LIFE’S NOT FAIR, BITCH.

(Unless, of course, you are a person of privilege. In which case, life must always be extra fair to you.)