(January 26, 2012 at 1:53 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: And then you have to also consider not black customers, but what happens in a store with "whites only" on the front when a black man comes looking for a job? You think he's going to find gainful employment anywhere? If we get rid of all EEO laws then we'll be free to discriminate against people based on race, religion, or gender when it comes to hiring or equal pay. Do you think it'd be right for an employer to pay a black employee 1/3rd the pay of a white employee doing the same job? After all, it's his property, his business, so he should be able to do what he wants with it.
Bingo. Its obvious that Adrian is an Idealist and rather naive on his approach to race relations, especially in America. Gladly many of us Americans have progressed past the view that Adrian is suggesting. not ALL of us, but enough to make equal rights a political reality.
How about a "whites only" hospital Adrian? I guess the blacks will just be dying on the lawn, or at least until the cops come to throw them in jail for trespassing.
Adrian is driving down the road in alabama and gets in a car wreck. The closest hospital is 10 minutes away. Sadly for him, it is "non-whites only" and they flat out refuse to accept him as a patient for any reason. The closest hospital to accept him as a patient happens to be an hour away.
Congratulations Adrian, your right wing views just killed you.
And in a scenereo like this, that "non-whites only" hospital has every right to turn you away. Nor can you claim that they killed you or even allowed you to die. Its not your right to be treated by them in your own words, and if you beg them to help you then they have the right to have you arrested and hauled off into jail.
Heres a good one, because I know how much you right wing libertarians LOVE contracts:
A pharmaceutical corporation finally discovers a cure for cancer! The person who owns 51% of the stock insists that his product (which is legally his by the way) can be contractually sold and used in all of its prescribed ways EXCEPT to be administered to known homosexuals. Homosexuals make up an extremely small percentage of the worlds population, so obviously none of the board members consider this to be an impact on their profit margin. In fact they see it as a bonus because hatred of homosexuals is a very popular thing in many parts of the world.
So now in this "free market" all it takes is a few media reports of the miracle cancer cure for everyone except homosexuals and then what do you know...suddenly there are a lot less homosexuals in the world. Obviously dying from cancer. But many other homosexuals would be forced to no longer be open about their homosexuality in fear of not receiving the cure if they happen to get cancer. Since homosexuality can be more easily concealed as opposed to skin color, many "homosexuals only" bars and businesses would obviously suffer even more than they normally would....well, you get the point. In the name of a free market, you have made the market less free.
Oh, yeaah, how about that media? Lets just say the owner of a local newspaper is a white supremecist. He decides to be slick and not hang the "whites only" sign on his business, but the policy is definitely apparent in the way he runs his business. He hires a very small handfull of blacks, but makes sure the majority of his staff are populated by white supremecists or racists. he informs them not to be open and blunt about their racist mission and instead makes selective editing on stories to push his racist agenda, all the while seeming "inclusive" and NOT lying in the legal sense. Now we have the entire populace being influenced by a white power newspaper in the guise of a normal and "open minded" media.
Man, I can go on and on and on with this pile of horse shit....
