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So is this guy racist? He says pretty much word for word what I said, and you called me a racist for it.
rubbed your nose in it. Face it, guy - you got caught.Gimmesometruth
If he believes he can as a business owner discriminate against customers based on race, as you advocate business owners should be able to to, then he is a supporter of racial discrimination, like you. Why in the first place a person would want to practice racial discrimination is another thing entirely, but more than likely it is based on racist beliefs (hate).https://youtu.be/SzXXvUjg8Fo
So is this guy racist? He says pretty much word for word what I said, and you called me a racist for it.
https://youtu.be/SzXXvUjg8Fo
Dude. You claimed that you didn't advocate for racial discrimination, and rubbed your nose in it. Face it, guy - you got caught.
If you are wise, you will do a mea culpa - you'd be surprised how forgiving people are when you admit that you were wrong - even stupidly wrong - about something.
You didn't answer my question. Is that guy, who stayed the exact same thing I did, also a racist?
."Applies to government ONLY"?
So Lincoln was wrong when he said our government was "OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people"?
What's more, I think you're forgetting what the Preamble of the DofI said:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" - I guess in YOUR book, they're only referring to government workers, and not to ALL the American people. Thankfully, the great majority of Americans agree that it does refer to ALL Americans...and that "equality under the law" applies to ALL Americans...even the ones who are not so lily-white as yourself.
You didn't answer my question. Is that guy, who stayed the exact same thing I did, also a racist?
If he believes he can as a business owner discriminate against customers based on race, as you advocate business owners should be able to to, then he is a supporter of racial discrimination, like you. Why in the first place a person would want to practice racial discrimination is another thing entirely, but more than likely it is based on racist beliefs (hate).
The funny thing is that yesterday you said you were finished with this debate, but I guess something got stuck in your craw.
I'm not addressing that - I normally do not watch videos that are posted. They're usually noisy and obnoxious and not worth my time, so I normally don't watch videos. Look through all my posts, and I doubt you'll find me ever linking to a video.
What I am addressing is the fact that you got caught. You said you didn't advocate for racial discrimination, and gimmesometruth proved that you did. Whatever was or was not in that video in no way, shape, or form gave any justification for you did. It's just like I taught my sons: just because that other guy did it doesn't mean that YOU can do it.
Lol this thread just keeps on giving. :lamo
I never advocated for racial discrimination, I advocated for the right of businesses to associate with whoever they want, and not be forced to associate with people they don't want. The market will take care of the rest.
If I advocated for racial discrimination, that would mean that my business didn't serve some race of people, which is false. I'll accept money from anyone, regardless of skin color.
What you're basically doing is saying that all libertarians are racists, which is, frankly, hilarious.
Lol this thread just keeps on giving. :lamo
I never advocated for racial discrimination, I advocated for the right of businesses to associate with whoever they want, and not be forced to associate with people they don't want. The market will take care of the rest.
If I advocated for racial discrimination, that would mean that my business didn't serve some race of people, which is false. I'll accept money from anyone, regardless of skin color.
What you're basically doing is saying that all libertarians are racists, which is, frankly, hilarious.
Do you really think you're fooling anyone?
Guy, I grew up in a town where the only doctor in town had two doors - above one was "white" and above the other was "colored". Oh, they were completely painted over in green paint, and I'm sure that that's what that doctor would have said, that "Hey, I ain't racist - I painted over those signs!"
But green paint doesn't hide inch-deep chisels in marble too well. And this was in 1984, twenty years after the Civil Rights Act. And the people of that small town, Shaw MS, obeyed what those signs said, all the whites to one side, all the nonwhites to the other.
You want to believe in the power of the market...but I've seen firsthand (not only in Mississippi but overseas as well) that the market doesn't always work that way. You can tell yourself all day that everything will magically work out in the end...but I've seen otherwise - I've LIVED otherwise...because I and my entire family was among the racists. My career in the Navy helped me to unlearn my racism...but the rest of my family never did. And now they're all buried with the rest of my family line in a small cemetery by a Southern Baptist church in Sunflower County MS, all in an unbroken line all the way back to the 1870's.
In other words, yeah, I've got deep roots in the area. I know whereof I speak. And having lived it, I know racism when I see and hear it, and I know that the "magic of the marketplace" is all smoke and mirrors, nothing more than entertainment for the rich, the prejudiced, and the ignorant.
I want to say this in the nicest way possible, but man, you sound like you're from the old school in a major way. That America you're describing doesn't exist anymore. Us younger generations, myself included, I have friends and family of every race and creed you can imagine. We've grown up without segregation.
It's not even conceivable to me that a business would refuse to serve someone due to the color of their skin.... such a moronic business would not stay open for long in the modern era.
Any smart business owner is gonna say who cares about the color of your skin, the only color that matters to me is green. And if they don't, then they won't be in business for long.
What you're describing is sad, but that's a bygone era that's been dead for a long time. We can't keep living in the past my friend.
I really didn't bother to analyze his motivations....but blacks can be racists too (shocker!).So a black kid is racist against other blacks?
The incidence of measles in the US is low, so therefore we don't need to be inoculated, that is "living in the past"......and in fact we should allow folks to catch measles.I want to say this in the nicest way possible, but man, you sound like you're from the old school in a major way. That America you're describing doesn't exist anymore. Us younger generations, myself included, I have friends and family of every race and creed you can imagine. We've grown up without segregation.
It's not even conceivable to me that a business would refuse to serve someone due to the color of their skin.... such a moronic business would not stay open for long in the modern era.
Any smart business owner is gonna say who cares about the color of your skin, the only color that matters to me is green. And if they don't, then they won't be in business for long.
What you're describing is sad, but that's a bygone era that's been dead for a long time. We can't keep living in the past my friend.
That's what I'm assuming. A business would never survive.
There is no threat when that business doesn't have the support of the vast majority of America. Look at the Westboro creeps -- they have zero traction because 99% of people don't believe in what they say or do.
You think a local business cannot be considered in a national context? Ahhh... more pangs of pity.
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