Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss the nature and acceptability/unacceptability of discrimination. The discussion touches on freedom of association, remedies for unreasonable discrimination, and becoming that which we claim to oppose.

Chapters:

• 0:26 - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State
• 3:01 - Rationality of decisions of individual actors?
• 5:39 - Incompleteness of information
• 7:31 - Consumer goods and producer goods
• 8:39 - Our main topic of the day - Sexuality as illustration of the acceptability of discrimination
• 11:19 - What is discrimination?
• 14:34 - The example of a baker discriminating based on not wanting to bake a cake for a gay couple
• 15:35 - Liberty - Freedom of association
• 16:42 - Institutionalization of discrimination
• 19:42 - Discrimination in employment and livelihood
• 24:21 - The importance or nonimportance of membership in a group and how to approach judgement on color of skin
• 27:51 - The futility of persuasion
• 29:46 - The present and future of "runaway" discrimination
• 34:08 - The primacy of sensitivity, empathy, and better parenting
• 37:19 - Reciprocation of open-mindedness and freedom of association
• 39:18 - Becoming the thing we claim to oppose

Resources:

• Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
• Oregon Wedding Cake Controversy
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• "I have a dream" speech - Martin Luther King