What Ashlee is Reading

 This book is broken into 50 topics, each of which the great Dr. Ron Paul posits is a threat to our liberty.  1. Abortion. He tells of how his view on abortion changed when he had to assist in an abortion. The baby initially survived and lay crying while everyone in the room pretended not to hear it. Then the crying stopped. Shortly after he assisted with a birth of a baby just a few weeks older than the first. This baby, being early, required extra care, which everyone was eager to give. Dr. Paul couldn't find any reason why the difference in care could be viewed as moral. So how to reconcile this with the generally "pro-choice" ethos of libertarianism? Dr. Paul thinks that in modern society, abortion beyond a certain point isn't really necessary; a morning after pill solution would be hard to police anyway and then would be just an individual moral choice. He does, however, advocate for decentralization, even though some states or localities would make abortion laws

 "Critical Race Theory holds that race is a social construct that was created to maintain white privilege and white supremacy. This idea originated long before postmodernism with W. E. B. Du Bois, who argued that the idea of race was being used to assert biological explanations of differences that are social and cultural, in order to perpetuate the unjust treatment of racial minorities, especially African Americans."  Of course, the reality is that this is only partially true. Some physical differences- hair texture, eye shape, skin color, relative susceptibility to certain diseases- are clearly based in DNA reality, not social constructs. The *importance* we put on those differences to divide into classes is not reality based, nor is it reality based that those differences sometimes overcome our shared humanity, the fact that we have so much more in common than we have differences. Some interesting historical examples are given of times when these differences were not signif