DaveInSeattle wrote:So you don't think the Civil Right laws back in the 60's should have been passed? Because the way I'm reading this, it sure sounds like you think that those Lunch Counter owners had every right not to serve black customers.
Not what I'm saying at all. You know that. And I know that you understand that Civil Rights legislation and lunch counter sit-in protests are two quite separate entities.
You really ought to be posing that question to Jerloma. After all, as I mentioned above in more detail, it is his "let business owners discriminate at will" line to which you are really responding.
Worth noting, too, that it is not Civil Rights legislation the enables a PC-nutcase to walk into a business and attempt/succeed to destroy it. Not even close. The type of kangaroo tribunals to which I referred are not enforcing laws from within in the canons of federal, provincial, or municipal law but are rather simply neo-communist apparatchiks strong-arming their own extremist agenda; these are people infinitely more discriminatory than the people they accuse of discrimination. I have a problem with that and so should you.
There should never be a fine line between "civil rights" and "nanny state" but rather a vast divide between the two. Civil Rights legislation, despite inevitable unintended consequences that may accompany its fundamental necessity, move a nation properly toward a more "just" and civilized society. Nanny state groupthink not only destroys a society but the lives of all within it.
Civil Rights legislation in the United States was (is) necessary and surely long overdue when it did arrive; glaringly required in some states more than others but unquestionably had to be foremost a federal policy. America's two solitudes quite visibly need Civil Rights laws and the laws were written with praiseworthy intent. I don't believe I've ever heard someone who merited the listening, in all my years, ever suggest otherwise.
Excuse me for a moment . . .
Giff wrote:You wanna argue with someone who is equating discrimination against gays to people selling Justin Beiber shirts?
Isn't Reddit a troll board? One of those places where deliberate idiocy reigns? The shallow end of the ePool. Hmmm? Some place more appropriate for your aimless absurdities? Or at least stay out of a conversation in which you are not capable of contributing anything; it will be no less compelling in your absence. (Apologies if I'm affording you
too much credit. I simply assumed anything so staggeringly stupid must surely be intentional.)