I think the government has a legitimate interest in a heterogenous society. The more homogenous certain areas are, the more civil and racial unrest when those lines get blurred for any of a number of reasons.
For this reason, the government has a vested interest in not allowing discrimination based on any of a number of protected classes. I don't think there's a specific criteria for what makes a protected class other than that class having been either marginalized or having its rights restricted or taken away.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you've ever been turned away from a business, Dys. I don't think you've ever experienced what it's like to be told that you are not good enough to shop at a store, eat at a restaurant, be a patron at a public establishment. I have. To some of the less educated yokels in this state, I look like I could be a Muslim. I have been called a raghead and told to leave a restaurant, that ISIS money was no good. I see the stupid fucking confederate flags that these idiots fly off their gas guzzling bubba trucks here, and I am reminded of America's history when we tried the separate but equal gambit. It doesn't work. It is nice in theory, but we tried it. It failed spectacularly, and the effects of it are still being felt today no matter where you look in this nation that bends itself to liberty, but really couldn't give a fuck about it.
For this reason, the government has a vested interest in not allowing discrimination based on any of a number of protected classes. I don't think there's a specific criteria for what makes a protected class other than that class having been either marginalized or having its rights restricted or taken away.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you've ever been turned away from a business, Dys. I don't think you've ever experienced what it's like to be told that you are not good enough to shop at a store, eat at a restaurant, be a patron at a public establishment. I have. To some of the less educated yokels in this state, I look like I could be a Muslim. I have been called a raghead and told to leave a restaurant, that ISIS money was no good. I see the stupid fucking confederate flags that these idiots fly off their gas guzzling bubba trucks here, and I am reminded of America's history when we tried the separate but equal gambit. It doesn't work. It is nice in theory, but we tried it. It failed spectacularly, and the effects of it are still being felt today no matter where you look in this nation that bends itself to liberty, but really couldn't give a fuck about it.
"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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