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Wow...
You would never be in my circle of friends with such a selfish attitude.
I wouldn't let most libertarians near me anyway.
Wow...
You would never be in my circle of friends with such a selfish attitude.
The first two are not rights and the rest I have no idea what that they have to do with anything.
But you are surely talking about not all the people in a society but SOME of the people. How is it that the particular individuals acquire authority over other individuals?
If a person says, "You must do X, or else I will seize you", this can't be anything but aggression. I can't "tone it down", because it is what it is, the initiation of aggression. Why do you think such aggression is ethically justified?
When you are completely shoved off of an equal footing from the rest of the population simply because of who you are, and it impacts every facet of your life, you can bet your bum we want to force it down their throats to treat us like human beings.
Perhaps the problem is that we are just using the word "inequality" differently. I don't see anything wrong with a situation where the parties all have the same rights. Yes, some business excluded certain people, but all property works this way and all property owners have the power to exclude who they desire from the use of their property. :shrug:
Perhaps the problem is that we are just using the word "inequality" differently. I don't see anything wrong with a situation where the parties all have the same rights. Yes, some business excluded certain people, but all property works this way and all property owners have the power to exclude who they desire from the use of their property. :shrug:
We need to disassemble all laws that continue to use race, or else we will never become a colorblind society.So that is what you would like to see? More division among ethnic groups, more excuses for racism to continue for more generations? That is freedom to you?
So that is what you would like to see? More division among ethnic groups, more excuses for racism to continue for more generations? That is freedom to you?
When you are completely shoved off of an equal footing from the rest of the population simply because of who you are, and it impacts every facet of your life, you can bet your bum we want to force it down their throats to treat us like human beings.
We need to disassemble all laws that continue to use race, or else we will never become a colorblind society.
Do you advocate never achieving that goal?
I said nothing about what I would like to see nor did I advocate racism.
But you consider racism a right...correct? The kinda sorta means you do, I'm afraid.
For anything owned and operated by the government, no. For private businesses, yes. All private businesses should hold the right to refuse service and employment to anyone for any reason.Should the public accommodations portion of the law be repealed?
Like any disease, it needs to run it's course. as long as you violate peoples freedoms in the name of equality, you will never have equality. you cannot make that resentment disappear. Let people be racist, and those remaining decades later will have no new friends. Peer pressure will eliminate more than can be eliminated by law.We could never do that by accepting discrimination as a personal right. It is a disease that is passed on from generation to generation. Once it is gone the laws will be superfluous.
History shows abuse. Have you read about the civil rights movement?
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Keep living in the past. You will never have a better future if you can't let it go. What I find most appalling of those living in the past, is they blame those of us, and accuse us, who never had part of the past inequities.
Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. We can all spout these things. But here it is appropriate. We have history that can inform us and promote better decisions in the fortune.
And as I said, you can this prejudice and exclusion in the present as well.
We have learned from the past. Those who like to wield power have learned how to use the past for political power, especially in race relationships.
I'm not talking about unlearning the past. I'm talking about not living in the past.
And there are laws that are either repetitive, or that deny some personal freedoms that are obsolete, and need to be removed.No one here is. The lesson was the laws we've written. They are the present. It is this e wanting o go back to the past and undo lessons learned who are not in the present.
And there are laws that are either repetitive, or that deny some personal freedoms that are obsolete, and need to be removed.
Why are liberals so authoritarian, forcing people to do things they don't want to?Little is absolute. Not then, not today, and not in the future. People must live together. There will always be rules about that.
Why are libertarians so sympathetic to the racist swine who practiced segregation and discrimination for decades before the Civil Rights Act?Why are liberals so authoritarian, forcing people to do things they don't want to?
Correct ... Everyone has the right to be a douche ... but they do not have the the right to PRACTICE their douche-baggery when it interferes with the Civil Rights of others Americans:roll:
Everyone has the right to be a douche. :shrug: