Bumper sticker seen on a pickup truck in Tacoma: "Liberty > Equality".

[Aristus]

If that ">" is mathematical notation, then the sticker reads "Liberty is greater than Equality".

Has anyone ever seen this slogan anywhere? Know what it means? Is it a veiled expression of white supremacy?

I'm confused...

[Cant trust em]

1. It had to be on a pickup truck.

Stereotype comes true.

[The Traveler]

2. The only time I ever ran into that expression

(mathematically speaking) was in the context of extreme Libertarianism ... which is virtually indistinguishable from anarchy. The strong should be free to dominate the weak or inferior, so the logic goes. Dressed up social Darwinism.

[unpossibles]

3. a friend of mine refers to that as Anarchy for Rich people

if you can afford the police and fire department and roads and other perks like clean water, then I guess it's easy to favor getting rid of those pesky things like infrastructure and taxes.

[The Traveler]

4. Yep. That's the basic idea

Anarchy for rich people. The regimen of the sweatshop or freedom of the underpass for the rest of us.

[Brigid]

6. Sounds like Objectivism to me.

Never much cared for Ayn Rand.

[The Traveler]

8. Nobody who has successfully navigated the perils of puberty

... cares much for Ayn Rand. :) She is the philosopher of the emotionally handicapped. Objectivism is merely a sophomoric attempt to provide a philosophical rationale for bestiality.

[Generic Other]

5. Tacoma: home of < average morans

Who needs equality when ya got no brains?

And I can say this because I am from Tacoma.

[ProgressiveFool]

7. What a fucking moran: Equality is a pre-requisite for Liberty /nt

[knitter4democracy]

9. I'd be tempted to draw a line under that.

Liberty is greater than or equal to Equality. It would mess with their head. :evilgrin:

[Quantess]

10. I saw a car with AYN RAND license plate in Federal Way, WA.

Maybe that was the same person in their other vehicle.

[Juche]

11. Could be a reference to taxes for social programs

If you assume liberty = not being taxed for medicare, medicaid, social security or education and equality = wealth redistribution due to taxes for education, healthcare or senior pensions.

That would be my take on it, he is saying it is better to be free of taxation than to be taxed to pay for programs that promote equality. The guy who has it has probably collected 60-80k in education subsidies for k-12 or maybe college in his life and will eventually collect hundreds of thousands in social security and medicare.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

12. lay off Tacoma

My daughter and her friends have organized a day of silence (in honor of LGBT teens who have persecuted due to their sexuality) tomorrow at her school, and Friday night, there is a Night of Noise to support a teen who was beat because she was thought to be gay, in Tacoma.