Read it again. Seriously. It's an honest accounting of Paul's views. I read it and thought "Yeah, that sounds about right. I might consider voting for him." I have other reservations about Paul, but the article wasn't a smear. Many will, no doubt, assume his views are motivated by racism rather than principle, but I don't think that's the fault of the OP.
Paul isn’t ‘racist,’ he’s simply ignorant and naïve, as are most libertarians; indeed, libertarianism is in essence utopian political dogma.
It’s naïve and inane, for example, to think that if public accommodations laws were eliminated, and businesses allowed to discriminate based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation, ‘decent’ society would ‘shun’ such practices and those businesses would either go under or stop discriminating, free from government ‘coercion.’
Needless to say nothing could be further from the truth, as businesses that discriminate would continue to thrive.
And as with most libertarians, Paul is a reactionary, fearful of change, in a pathetic search for an idealized American past that never actually existed to begin with.
I think you're the naive one here.
Do you honestly think if gov't eliminated racial laws then suddenly everyone would revert to a 1950s mindset? Hotels would bar Jews and blacks. Restaurants would be white only?
That's absurd and without foundation. Society has changed considerably. I tell 18 and 19yr old kids sometimes, You know in this very city it was illegal for blacks to drink out of White Only water fountains and they think I'm talking about Mars.
Busineses do not thrive by turning away customers Business is far more competitive today than it was 50 years ago. They would go under in many circumstances if they started posting No Blacks signs.
Paul is not fearful of change. Paul wants change. It is you who cling to an outmoded past.
You know, I think they do get it. They know this isn't about racism. They know it's a rejection of the power of the state to dictate our personal decisions - and that is what the statists are loathe to let go of. It's the premise behind their ambitions to control society more generally, from health care, to education, to family finances - the acceptance of the idea that the state can, and should, tell us how to live and what to think is fundamental to their ideal conception of government.