They see individuals as being oppressed by the power of the state. They're completely blind to the oppression from other forces, which often only the state can counteract.
There's a good illustration in that useful quotation that acmejack posted: "We applaud the liberation of blacks and women from the statist restrictions that for so long kept them out of the economic mainstream." They seem to think that the government was the main force between race and sex discrimination. Of course, a true libertarian would have to oppose the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Pay Act as interferences with the marketplace.
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