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Recently, Anarchyball along with other YouTubers including That Guy T, Lauren Southern, Larken Rose, and others entitled "Questions for Statists", found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8D8mgLy4w). Now the video itself was pretty well put together, but after watching through it a few different times, I can see the problems that responses have highlighted. 

Sargon of Akkad made a response, which can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjhIn0rn-Q). This highlights a pretty big problem that I see within libertarianism as well as anarchism. One statement he made that stuck with me was the "failure of the term statist". That really made me think and I kept getting pulled back to what George Orwell said about fascism to the effect that the term fascist is so overused that it effectively no longer has meaning. 

We as anarchists/libertarians shouldn't keep falling back on the "statist" talking points.  Why? Because the term no longer means anything anymore. It treats those who in even a slight sense value a type of government function. Say someone is okay with funding public libraries and nothing else (let's just say)...they would be called a statist just as fervently as the full on ones who believe government should be in EVERYTHING. Sargon is absolutely right that this term is a failure. Now, I know that some of the questions were stated as being to "statists of the left/right", but even this makes the mistake of treating statists like a monolith.  A police apologist  is not necessarily the same as someone who supports fire departments. And I honestly believe, "but who will build the roads?" is a legitimate question. Small amounts of roads can (and do) cost millions of dollars to pave. Granted, this means methods would change; however, libertarians/anarchists (myself included) have just boiled it down to "muh roads" with every bit of condescension that you might expect. 

This might be a point of contention, but libertarians and anarchists aren't going to bring anyone over  by "otherizing" so called "statists". Honestly, libertarians and anarchists use the term "statist" in such a way that social justice warriors will use "racist" or "homophobe" or in the same way the alt-right uses the term "cuck" or "beta-male". As a libertarian, I hate the direction that this particular line of thought is going. I have spent a lot of time opposing social justice warriors and the like and I have not done so just to see the libertarian ideology become just as bad. 

L(l)ibertarians, anarchists I think it's time that we reevaluate how we approach discussions if we are going to bring more people over.