Topic Suggestion/Request:
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Liberalism and Race
Reasoning:
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In today’s political climate, it evident that liberalism and racial realism are incompatible.
But this wasnt always the case. When we think of a nation like Australia and upon their federation in 1901, one of the first policies to be passed was the White Australia policy. But the men of that time and the following prime ministers who endorsed this policy wouldn’t self describe as fascists or national socialists. The men of this time were quite liberal around trade, market, civil liberties, democracy etc.
Was the liberalism of this time something different to it’s incarnation today, or is it a category error to say these men were liberal. Or is it the case that liberalism was intended for a White homogeneous society, and when these parameters aren’t met, the system collapses in on itself.
Additionally - is liberalism as a political philosophy worth hanging onto or trying to reinvent/revitalise?