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Re: Which Is More Important? The Right to Discriminate, or Freedom from Discriminati
No, you do know quite well what I mean. Yes, you do.
And as I asked the other guys, if you got a law passed allowing discrimination, with the knowledge that the state would have to physically back up a business' "right" to discriminate, the PERCEPTION among nonwhites - and among blacks in particular - is that white America is turning against them. You can stand there all day long using your "violation of body and property" line, but the PERCEPTION among tens of millions of minorities would be that we are returning to the days of Jim Crow...
...and they would not sit back and peacefully accept what they PERCEIVE as government-backed racism. Remember what happened when Rodney King got beat up by four cops? The riots weren't just in LA, if you'll recall. Now imagine what would happen when the minority population sees the federal government explicitly allowing racism. It would make the Watts riots a cakewalk in comparison...especially since a much greater percentage of minorities have firearms today than they did back in the 1960's.
Is this really where you want America to go? Is it really? Is your 'right' to racially discriminate really worth all the death and destruction and increased hatred that would last generations?
I don't see how you can deny that such a law would result in the violation of body and property. I think you are deluding yourself.
No, you do know quite well what I mean. Yes, you do.
And as I asked the other guys, if you got a law passed allowing discrimination, with the knowledge that the state would have to physically back up a business' "right" to discriminate, the PERCEPTION among nonwhites - and among blacks in particular - is that white America is turning against them. You can stand there all day long using your "violation of body and property" line, but the PERCEPTION among tens of millions of minorities would be that we are returning to the days of Jim Crow...
...and they would not sit back and peacefully accept what they PERCEIVE as government-backed racism. Remember what happened when Rodney King got beat up by four cops? The riots weren't just in LA, if you'll recall. Now imagine what would happen when the minority population sees the federal government explicitly allowing racism. It would make the Watts riots a cakewalk in comparison...especially since a much greater percentage of minorities have firearms today than they did back in the 1960's.
Is this really where you want America to go? Is it really? Is your 'right' to racially discriminate really worth all the death and destruction and increased hatred that would last generations?