RE: Whatever you may think of Rand Paul...
January 26, 2012 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2012 at 9:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 25, 2012 at 6:57 pm)paintpooper Wrote: I can see both sides of the issue, but the bigger question is why. Why would someone want to hurt their business by not allowing someone based on a belief or color or anything else that is arbitrary. It is not logical or rational in any sense. So why would/did people do it?
Because it didn't hurt their business all that much, was socially acceptable (and in some cases expected), and importantly, it was legal to do so. There's always somebody you can hang a sign up for. Maybe it isn't "No coloreds allowed" anymore..maybe now it's muslims, as one poster pointed out. It's rare to see a moneyed demographic get turned away from stores. Also, far from the free market swooping in to help, when the "whites only" signs were up, specialists ran shops for coloreds, raking them over the coals for goods which could be cheaply bought across the street if it weren't for the signs.
So, there's our model, there's our case study. Before these laws, goods were unavailable or not competitively priced to minorities. Businesses still operated, "whites only" signs bankrupted no one. There was then (as there is now) an urge to discriminate based on imaginary/petty distinctions. They did it because they could, because people do things like that. The laws that compel businesses to provide services indiscriminately were good when they were written, they are good now.
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