Rand Paul on racism in business...

phenomena · May 21, 2010

When the government is taking the risk of being a business owner instead of me, when the government makes my payroll, and when the government pays my overhead then, and only then should they tell me who I can hire, serve, and what kinds of signs I can put up. Until then, it's none of the governments business.

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I think what is being missed is the difference between implicit and explicit discrimination. Explicit discrimination is against the law and rightfully so. Implicit isn't and shouldn't ever be.

Putting a sign out front that says "No blacks" is an example of explicit discrimination.

Starting a hair salon with pictures of white women with different hair styles is an example of implicit discrimination. While a Black woman can walk in there, it would be pointless as the establishment is not equipt to deal with a Black woman's hair. That they had pictures of White women outside should be clue enough for a Black woman to not seek service there. Should the government force that business to properly cater to everyone? Or should the market do that?

This is something you don't want the government to regulate. The government's role is to protect its citizens. Not to dictate what kind of business they can run and who they must cater to. Public safety laws notwithstanding.

I disagree with Rand Paul's desire to remove government from protecting its citizens against explicit discrimination. But there has been increasing encroachment into private enterprise's right to implicit discrimination through activist litigation.
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OPTIONAL777 · May 21, 2010

Freedom to be a racist and to practice racism...what a goal.

...and the klannish wonder why they are in a minority status.

phenomena · May 21, 2010

No, racism is what you practice and you are free to do so. It's what all Americans deserve, the freedom to choose...

As much as you'd love it, the bureau of thought police does not yet exist.

Funny how you call other people "klannish" in the same conversation you use racial slurs. LOL!!!

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Freedom to be a racist and to practice racism...what a goal.

...and the klannish wonder why they are in a minority status.
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bigarrow · May 21, 2010

Quote from phenomena:

When the government is taking the risk of being a business owner instead of me, when the government makes my payroll, and when the government pays my overhead then, and only then should they tell me who I can hire, serve, and what kinds of signs I can put up. Until then, it's none of the governments business.
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What kind of business do you own?

Gabfly1 · May 21, 2010

Quote from phenomena:

...This is the United States not Nazi Germany.

There should be no race laws, for anyone.
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Before race laws, the distinction was less clear.

Gabfly1 · May 21, 2010

Quote from Covertibility:

Ayn Rand Paul will be a hypocrite just like daddy. Proclaim one thing but do the opposite while living off the taxpayer's dime.

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Amusing: Meet the Pressâ transcript for Dec. 23, 2007

MR. RUSSERT: When I looked at your record, you talked about big government and how opposed you are to it, but you seem to have a different attitude about your own congressional district. For example, "Congress decided to send billions of dollars to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Guess how Ron Paul voted. `Is bailing out people" that choose--"that chose to live on the coastline a proper function of the federal government?' he asks." And you said no. And yet, this: "Paul's current district, which includes Galveston and reaches into" the "Brazoria County, draws a substantial amount of federal flood insurance payments." For your own congressional district. This is the Houston Chronicle: "Representative Ron Paul has long crusaded against a big central government. But he also" "represented a congressional district that's consistently among the top in Texas in its reliance on dollars from Washington. In the first nine months of the federal government's" fiscal "2006 fiscal year," "it received more than $4 billion." And they report, The Wall Street Journal, 65 earmark-targeted projects, $400 million that you have put into congressional bills for your district, which leads us to the Congressional Quarterly. "The Earmark Dossier of `Dr. No.' There isn't much that" Ron--Dr. "Ron Paul thinks the federal government should do. Apparently, though, earmarks" for his district "are OK. Paul is the sponsor of no fewer than 10 earmarks in the water resources bill," all benefiting his district. The Gulf Intercoastal Waterway: $32 million. The sunken ship you want to be moved from Freeport Harbor. The Bayou Navigation Channel. They talk about $8 million for shrimp fishermen.

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Hell of a small gubba'mint track record.
He also wants term limits yet he's been in Congress since '78.
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Beautiful.

Gabfly1 · May 21, 2010

Quote from Hello:

Point me to a single quote where someone on this thread has supported racism.
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You are either against racism or you support it, tacitly or otherwise.

Lucrum · May 21, 2010

Quote from OPTIONAL777:

Freedom to be a racist and to practice racism...what a goal.

...and the klannish wonder why they are in a minority

status.
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Quote from OPTIONAL777:

Better yet, ask me about white klannish in name only Christians

that dominate the landscape in America...
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Soooooo ZZZzzzzz/Optional, which is it?

Or do you just pull all this shit out of your ass?

Lucrum · May 21, 2010

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You are either against racism or you support it, tacitly or otherwise.
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...and how is all this perceived racism, that has your panties in a wad, affect trade between our two countries?

Gabfly1 · May 21, 2010

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Of course private businesses should be allowed to be racist...
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I gather the sheet was getting too stuffy for you. Especially as the weather gets warmer, eh?