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TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
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TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 12:49 pm
This was a (funny as hell) piece by Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show last night.

Discriminatory Dinner Discounts

This, to me, is an example of stupidity on the part of FFRF. (This guy should be fired as a spokesperson of any sort, either way.) It completely undermines the serious civil liberty and church/state separation battles that FFRF does. This makes FFRF (and to a smaller extent atheists) look stupid.

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RE: TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Some people like to get carried away... oh well...
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RE: TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 1:03 pm
Meh.

I understand the principle, and I might agree somewhat, but in practice this doesn't seem discriminatory. It's just the restaraunt didn't market it well, and the FFRF didn't look into it close enough.
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RE: TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 1:13 pm
(December 10, 2014 at 12:49 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: This was a (funny as hell) piece by Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show last night.

Discriminatory Dinner Discounts

This, to me, is an example of stupidity on the part of FFRF. (This guy should be fired as a spokesperson of any sort, either way.) It completely undermines the serious civil liberty and church/state separation battles that FFRF does. This makes FFRF (and to a smaller extent atheists) look stupid.

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Why is it stupid to inform someone when they're breaking the law?
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RE: TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 1:18 pm
My favorite part was when the dude jumped to genocide (I guess in an attempt to make an analogy), and Jordan says "That's my point." Pick your battles FFRF.
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RE: TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 1:23 pm
(December 10, 2014 at 1:13 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Why is it stupid to inform someone when they're breaking the law?

Are they really breaking the law?
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RE: TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 1:28 pm (This post was last modified: December 10, 2014 at 1:28 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(December 10, 2014 at 1:13 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Why is it stupid to inform someone when they're breaking the law?

Because perception becomes reality, and this further tarnishes the perception of atheism. Because this is petty. Because they never even visited the restaurant. Because they never even tested how this discrimination was carried out or even verified that anyone ever had been discriminated against.

The owner herself said that the 'prayer' discount would be given out for a 'moment' of reflection.' Come on. It's not against the law to offer an incentive for a particular group of people based on ideology or principle. Military discounts, senior citizen discounts, local resident discounts, there's even a restaurant near where I live that has a discount for gay couples. You get a discount for fulfilling a requirement. No one is being discriminated against. Everyone can still eat there, no one is being turned away.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: TDS - Discriminatory Dinner Discounts
December 10, 2014 at 1:45 pm (This post was last modified: December 10, 2014 at 1:49 pm by Faith No More.)
Right idea, wrong application.

Also, I was really disappointed with Dan Barker. My perception of him was of someone that had a better grasp on his opinions and perspectives.
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