Libertarian Movies, Films & Documentaries
I happened to run across this Reason article about the Klu Klux Klan’s favorite law: gun control. The article examines the history in several ex-slave states and cites Clayton Cramer’s book The Racist Roots of Gun Control. I was reminded of the film Innocents Betrayed, which relates the broader pattern of genocidal dictators likewise being advocates of gun control. There certainly is a pattern here.
Why would a state prevent boys and girls from dancing together? It’s one of those cases of perverse incentives in law. Title IX is a federal statute requiring schools to offer both sexes equal access to educational opportunities. In order to demonstrate compliance, states want to get as many girls in sports as boys, but some popular sports like football are male-dominated and have no female equivalent. So, in the case of South Dakota, the state decided that dance would be exclusively a girls sport — boys would not be allowed to dance. The libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation fought that rule on behalf of Freddie Linden, a talented boy who was shut out of his school’s dance team. They won.
An examination of the rise of the left-wing paramilitary group Antifa reveals its Marxist roots and violent plans. [ Antifa: Rise of the Black Flags credits: Dir: Dave Lugo/ Raheem Kassam, Jack Posobiec, David Reaboi/ 61 min/ Documentary/ Anti-Socialism/ 2020]
Note: the full documentary follows the trailer below and can also be found online via search.
“Joe Biden may dismiss the Marxist movement, but this doc does no such thing.”
–Antifa: Rise of the Black Flags’ Shows the Chaos, Anarchy Hatched by an ‘Idea’
Film critic Christian Toto has released a new book: Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul captures Hollywood’s depressing decline. “It’s my primal scream against a trend that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives but reared its head in unique ways in La La Land: casting via identity politics, woke comedy restrictions, hostage-style apologies, virtue signaling gone wild, the unwatchable Oscars, [and more]. Virtue Bombs connects all the necessary dots, framing an industry at war with itself…and consumers.”
Massive anti-Covid restriction protests are going on throughout Europe, and as nerves wear thin on both sides police in many cases are getting aggressive. In this short viral clip, after a German police officer shoves an old man, a gutsy young girl protestor responds in kind and outwits her pursuers.
Meet Eleanor Holmes Norton, 84, who Pelosi wants as Transportation Czar, i.e. head of Congress’s powerful Transportation Committee. She was videoed a few years ago trying to park her car — she couldn’t do it, and not only blocked someone else in but just walked away and left it like that.