The Libertarian Catholic Has Incurred the Wrath of Zuckerberg - Being Libertarian - Michael Morris:
December 11, 2017 - "I would like to think that our often maligned, but still boisterous, hybrid of libertarian Catholics have managed to make one huge step towards legitimacy in pro-liberty circles. Unfortunately we have also taken a huge step backwards.... You see, our page, The Libertarian Catholic, was 'Zucked' recently for what Facebook considered hate speech.....
"We were shut down specifically because we posted a meme to our page that alerted a large community of 'Bernie Bros' to our existence and, since reason and math offer a check on their utopian sensibilities, they lashed out by running to daddy Zuckerberg and begged him to intervene....
"A quick look at any random profile that accused The Libertarian Catholic of 'hating the poor' or 'disappointing Jesus' consistently revealed an almost fetishistic nostalgia of childhood memories. We all love to wax poetic about the times long past, but as the Apostle Paul explained about adulthood, 'When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became an adult, I put aside childish things'. (1 Cor. 13:11)....
"We also encountered some interesting views on property that intended to make a distinction between personal goods and private ones. The problem is, for every socialist who had infiltrated our page there was a uniquely Orwellian distinction of the two.... Ultimately, the need for this dichotomy occurs precisely because they wish to take from certain groups to keep for themselves. So they are only socialist insofar as you have something that they want....
"The final accusation which we had encountered on our site repeatedly, and still encounter often from within the church as well as from outside, is some version of the belief in the incongruousness of being both a libertarian and a catholic. Straw men abound when leftward leaning ideologues begin to conjecture on fundamental human rights.....
"This line of thinking also abjectly fails to consider Vatican II’s declaration 'that the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person as this dignity is known through the revealed word of God and by reason itself.” It ignores Pope Leo XIII’s unequivocal support for the right to own private property according to the dignity of man being made in the image of God. Furthermore it fails to account for the way free markets have allowed individuals and communities to escape poverty, time and again, in ways that have never before been experienced throughout human history. Instead they yell, 'Jesus was a socialist!' (wrong) and 'libertarians hate the poor!” (patently false)
"In summary, our page was shut down over an inability to encounter ideas at odds with the preconceived notions of several thousand basement dwellers that live as children in perpetuity. We were shut down because, in an effort to establish equality and fairness, Facebook acquiesced to the pleas of those grown up children and unfairly deemed our well-reasoned — though against the social grain — beliefs to be hate speech. We were singled out for providing a different view than our critics cared to hear and thus had our page thrown onto the metaphorical fire to burn like a forbidden book. "
Read more: https://beinglibertarian.com/libertarian-catholic-incurred-wrath-zuckerberg/
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December 11, 2017 - "I would like to think that our often maligned, but still boisterous, hybrid of libertarian Catholics have managed to make one huge step towards legitimacy in pro-liberty circles. Unfortunately we have also taken a huge step backwards.... You see, our page, The Libertarian Catholic, was 'Zucked' recently for what Facebook considered hate speech.....
"We were shut down specifically because we posted a meme to our page that alerted a large community of 'Bernie Bros' to our existence and, since reason and math offer a check on their utopian sensibilities, they lashed out by running to daddy Zuckerberg and begged him to intervene....
"A quick look at any random profile that accused The Libertarian Catholic of 'hating the poor' or 'disappointing Jesus' consistently revealed an almost fetishistic nostalgia of childhood memories. We all love to wax poetic about the times long past, but as the Apostle Paul explained about adulthood, 'When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became an adult, I put aside childish things'. (1 Cor. 13:11)....
"We also encountered some interesting views on property that intended to make a distinction between personal goods and private ones. The problem is, for every socialist who had infiltrated our page there was a uniquely Orwellian distinction of the two.... Ultimately, the need for this dichotomy occurs precisely because they wish to take from certain groups to keep for themselves. So they are only socialist insofar as you have something that they want....
"The final accusation which we had encountered on our site repeatedly, and still encounter often from within the church as well as from outside, is some version of the belief in the incongruousness of being both a libertarian and a catholic. Straw men abound when leftward leaning ideologues begin to conjecture on fundamental human rights.....
"This line of thinking also abjectly fails to consider Vatican II’s declaration 'that the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person as this dignity is known through the revealed word of God and by reason itself.” It ignores Pope Leo XIII’s unequivocal support for the right to own private property according to the dignity of man being made in the image of God. Furthermore it fails to account for the way free markets have allowed individuals and communities to escape poverty, time and again, in ways that have never before been experienced throughout human history. Instead they yell, 'Jesus was a socialist!' (wrong) and 'libertarians hate the poor!” (patently false)
"In summary, our page was shut down over an inability to encounter ideas at odds with the preconceived notions of several thousand basement dwellers that live as children in perpetuity. We were shut down because, in an effort to establish equality and fairness, Facebook acquiesced to the pleas of those grown up children and unfairly deemed our well-reasoned — though against the social grain — beliefs to be hate speech. We were singled out for providing a different view than our critics cared to hear and thus had our page thrown onto the metaphorical fire to burn like a forbidden book. "
Read more: https://beinglibertarian.com/libertarian-catholic-incurred-wrath-zuckerberg/
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