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Then why can I discriminate when it comes to picking my friends?
Like Affirmative Action and any place that has quotas? You're outspoken against that right?
It's about the rights of the individual. When you force someone to work for another you're violating their rights.
Or why is it acceptable as the consumer to discriminate when picking a business?
We all do it for a variety of reasons.
In the town I grew up in I refused to eat at a restaurant I knew that the owners were involved with county corruption. They also happened too be Italian.
Later in the town I lived I refused to shop in a store owned by people whose son was convicted of multiple rapes. Why? Because they made excuses for their son's behavior and tried to blame the victims.
I boycott the NFL because I feel players have 6 7/8 days a week during the season to protest all they like. Using game day isn't acceptable to me. Most jobs I know of including my own don't tolerate political protests while at work.
We all discriminate every single day for a variety of reasons.
You're off base yet again.
Finish High School, work fulltime, and wait until you're 21 to marry and have kids. Do those 3 things and you have better than a 75 percent chance of making Middle Class or higher. Nothing to do with housing.
Then why can I discriminate when it comes to picking my friends?
Like Affirmative Action and any place that has quotas? You're outspoken against that right?
It's about the rights of the individual. When you force someone to work for another you're violating their rights.
Your personal relationships is one thing. Preventing people from having commerce, real estate, education, etc, that is quite another.
If you are against affirmative action, then you also have to be for the anti-discrimination laws that take place. You cannot justify being against affirmative action while wanting anti-discrimination laws to be repealed. If you say affirmative action is a form of discrimination, then you should also be for the laws that prevent discrimination. And for what I know, I never needed affirmative action. My grades were good enough for me to go to college.
When your individual rights come at my expense, they aren't individual rights they are a form of aggression.
If you live in the US and conduct business here you accepted the social contract. If you don't like it, there are Countries where you can be free as a bird..no government at all. Somalia comes to mind
Or why is it acceptable as the consumer to discriminate when picking a business?
We all do it for a variety of reasons.
In the town I grew up in I refused to eat at a restaurant I knew that the owners were involved with county corruption. They also happened too be Italian.
Later in the town I lived I refused to shop in a store owned by people whose son was convicted of multiple rapes. Why? Because they made excuses for their son's behavior and tried to blame the victims.
I boycott the NFL because I feel players have 6 7/8 days a week during the season to protest all they like. Using game day isn't acceptable to me. Most jobs I know of including my own don't tolerate political protests while at work.
We all discriminate every single day for a variety of reasons.
This is an interesting take on it.
Those complaining about having to go 10 miles down the road to buy a soda if an owner has the right to refuse service should be required by law to shop at the closest place possible to their residence provided that the closer store has the exact same product.
How 'bout it statists? GPS on the ankle to make sure you don't go astray, courtesy of Uncle Sammy?
Your personal relationships is one thing. Preventing people from having commerce, real estate, education, etc, that is quite another.
What becomes ma
If you are against affirmative action, then you also have to be for the anti-discrimination laws that take place. You cannot justify being against affirmative action while wanting anti-discrimination laws to be repealed. If you say affirmative action is a form of discrimination, then you should also be for the laws that prevent discrimination. And for what I know, I never needed affirmative action. My grades were good enough for me to go to college.
When your individual rights come at my expense, they aren't individual rights they are a form of aggression.
you have no right to anyone else's property and calling something a business doesnt magically change that fact
It’s terrifying that we have people like this in office. Republican moderates- get out there and Vote in the primaries!!!
It is terrifying. I am very happy that we have anti-discrimination legislation on the books. I do not want it repealed. One reason is that we have racist individuals out there. Some of those persons, once allowed to openly discriminate against others based on race, they will do so. It is going to make things very hard, especially for minorities, particularly Blacks. All I have to do is look to the Jim Crow era. Some of the comments I've seen in this thread lets me know that Jim Crow could easily come back. I don't want it because.
If you live in the US and conduct business here you accepted the social contract. If you don't like it, there are Countries where you can be free as a bird..no government at all. Somalia comes to mind
Somalia!
Love it. Haven't heard it today.
I'm not done killing babies in Mogadishu by drone strike. I can only do that by paying taxes here. On behalf of the killed babies they thank you and I for their deaths.
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