Actually I looked at it again and the Southern Poverty Law Center did not say this institute was a hate group, but they do call it “social darwinist” and it’s discription suggests that it is anti-semetic. For example Maury Rothbard believed Jewish financeers got together and had yankee lesbian women legalize child labor
At first this might sound like no big deal, but look at what happened to NORFED, National Organization for Repelling the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Code
“Feds seek $7M in privately made ‘Liberty Dollars’” Dave Wetzel
Coincidently enough, the May issue of the Mises Institute publication The Free Market included an article by David Gordon titled “Social Darwinism and the Free Market”. (For some reason the recent issues haven’t been put online yet. That link is the only online reference I could find…and coincidently it was only posted an hour ago.)
Most likely this got something to do with the fact that open discussions are possible here. Debates on otherwise taboo subjects the SPLC and others would like to have blinded out.
Notice the YouTube channel where that video is uploaded. It screams to me to be a nice retaliatory false flag in response to Huntsman’s own false flag against Ron Paul.
The problem with this is that they are successfully polarizing our image in the mainstream. SPLC is referenced by the news organizations, FBI, and IRS, people. Just to name a few. One of the kids in my political ideology class, during our discussion of Chapter XV of Human Action, asked, “Was Mises ethnocentric? Did he have racist inclinations?”
This is bad. This kid was looking for confirmation from something he had read or associated with Mises; he wanted to discredit him in this way, even if only in his mind (but acutally out loud for the whole class). My instructor said, “No. I think he was Jewish, though.” So, luckily, in this situation it wasn’t some dimwitt that said something ambiguous. But, a less astute group of people could easily have theat implanted in their minds if they aren’t thinking or don’t care.
Having said that,
I love it when they use anti-semite as an accusation at Mises and Rothbard…because it must necessarily come with an accusation that they are self-loathing which makes it two assumptions, both about their character, that each justify each other. I suppose it is actually not as funny as I had thought before I typed it out.
