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Old 10-25-2020, 07:14 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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If a racist business owner had a policy that charges blacks a higher price than he did for whites, you don’t think people would be up in arms? By the same token, a racist business owner who charges whitey more also should be justifiably condemned.
As I said, be "up in arms" if you like.

If a local bike shop wanted to offer whites a discount just for being white, I couldn't possibly care less. I'd think it's a bad business move, just like I think this shop is making a bad business move. Not my business, not my concern.
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:22 AM
 
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As I said, be "up in arms" if you like.

If a local bike shop wanted to offer whites a discount just for being white, I couldn't possibly care less. I'd think it's a bad business move, just like I think this shop is making a bad business move. Not my business, not my concern.
I’m pretty sure it is illegal to charge different prices to people based on race. Otherwise, a racist and antisemitic real estate developer could advertise this way:

New, beautiful 5-bedroom houses for sale! Prices are as follows:

White Christians: $600,000
Jews and Blacks: $9 million
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:27 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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I’m pretty sure it is illegal to charge different prices to people based on race. Otherwise, a racist and antisemitic real estate developer could advertise this way:

New, beautiful 5-bedroom houses for sale! Prices are as follows:

White Christians: $600,000
Jews and Blacks: $9 million

Maybe so. If it is, then there's nothing for anyone to worry about. Right?
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:30 AM
 
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Maybe so. If it is, then there's nothing for anyone to worry about. Right?
If it’s illegal, you mean? Then yes....authorities can straighten out the anti-white racist bike shop owner. But it’s Oregon, where the government seems to be very soft on scofflaws.
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:51 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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If it’s illegal, you mean? Then yes....authorities can straighten out the anti-white racist bike shop owner. But it’s Oregon, where the government seems to be very soft on scofflaws.

That's a problem for Oregonians, then.

I've got bigger fish to fry than something possibly happening at a bike shop 2000 miles away.
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:53 AM
 
Location: USA
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What if I "feeL' black today? Do I still get my victim discount?
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Old 10-25-2020, 08:01 AM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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Unless you are a shareholder/investor for this company, I can't see why anyone would care.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/poli...ott-after.html


But when the "other side" does it...
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Old 10-25-2020, 08:03 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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https://www.city-data.com/forum/poli...ott-after.html


But when the "other side" does it...

What's your point? I said the exact same thing in that thread.

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Old 10-25-2020, 08:05 AM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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What's your point? I said the exact same thing in that thread.

Mostly to show the blatant double standard that exists in America. Mass boycotts were not being called for the bicycle shop.

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What if I "feeL' black today? Do I still get my victim discount?
America is a strange place because lefties have been allowed to gain power. Because of the left, a man can legally become a women, and vice versa. So perhaps in the near future, a person of another race may have some path to becoming a black person, although I'm not sure it would be a one day only type of deal.
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Old 10-25-2020, 08:08 AM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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It's quite an involved project to exhume the bodies of every former slave and dump money into his or her coffin, not to mention that it serves no useful purpose and will not make the corpse feel better about its circumstances two hundred years ago when it was alive.

Insanity is disbursing victim-feel-good funding to someone six generations removed from the victim. Perhaps we could visit a gypsy fortuneteller and offer feel-good funding to someone who will have a great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchild who will be victimized in some fashion.
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