New Cat's Eye responds to me:
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Well yeah, that was the law.
And who wrote that law? Socialists? Communists?
Oh...that's right. Capitalists did.
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It wasn't evil bigoted capitalist hating that black money.
Oh, yes, it was.
Are you about to invoke "No True Capitalist"?
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A capitalist will go to racism when their clientele demands it with their wallet, not because they're trying to not take money.
Yep. You are.
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We know that it won't sort it out when the state is involved and preventing them.
And as the history of the US trivially shows, that's completely backwards. Capitalism actually made things worse. It was only when the state got involved that things got better.
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Further, it wasn't a hit the their hearts that caused Woolworth's to start serving blacks, it was the hit to their wallet
No, it was the publicity. The sit-ins weren't a one off. It started with just four people in a single lunch counter. They were refused.
The next day, 20 people showed up. TV cameras and newspaper reports covered it.
The third day, it was 60 people and corporate made a statement saying they would continue to segregate.
The fourth day, 300 people took part.
Within a week, the movement had spread to other towns.
Now, here's a question for you, since I know you're going to say, "that was the law."
What did those original four people do before they went to the lunch counter?
That's right...they bought some toothpaste.
From the desegregated counter.
At the end, six months later, Woolworth's desegregated the lunch counter. How could they do that if the law required them to do so?
And why was it that the Greensboro store desegregated but the ones in Nashville and Jackson stayed segregated for another five years?
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People are going to be bigoted, capitalists are going to go for the money despite their bigotry.
No True Capitalist.
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Which requires them taking it, that is, they are providing the service.
And yet, they aren't taking it from people whose money isn't apparently good enough for them.
Wait...I forgot...No True Capitalist, right?
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That's the issue, not whether or not people are secretly thinking bigoted thoughts while they're taking your food order.
(*chuckle*)
It's cute how you think you're thoughts are being legislated.
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Have a state that passes laws making the capitalists be racist.
Except the history of the United States trivially shows that not to be the case. Even when there were no laws mandating segregation, there was still racism. Capitalists were routinely engaged in racist activity and the capitalism made it even worse.
Wait...I forgot...No True Capitalist, right?
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You're never going to "end racism" in the sense of people not being "a racist";
Not as a direct consequence, no. I'm sorry, but you're so precious when you think your thoughts are being legislated.
No, the law can't make you think anything. But by requiring you to engage with the public when you open up a public accommodation, you will learn, albeit slowly and only as a side effect, that the people you were insisting were the devil incarnate actually aren't which may lead to the possibility of considering that maybe, just maybe, you were wrong to think so in the first place.
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The free market can end racist practices though.
It never has before. In fact, the free market has always made it worse. What makes this time different?
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lol that's silly.
But that's what you're advocating: No laws to regulate the actions of a business. Just as a business should be allowed to refuse service to black people because the "free market will end racist practices," then a resataurant should be allowed to serve spoiled food because "the free market will end disease-spreading practices."
If you get to be protected from a proprietor doling out salmonella, why don't you get to be protected from a proprietor doling out racism?
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It's the tactic of looking to the feds to provide people's thoughts and behaviors through force of law.
(*chuckle*)
It's cute how you think your thoughts are being legislated.
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That your immediate response to 'we don't need this' is: "But how are we going to end racism?" shows your totalitarian nature.
That you think legal regulation to prevent discrimination is "totalitarian" shows your bigoted nature.
We've been through this before:
Stopping bullies is not bullying the bullies.
Stopping intolerance is not intolerant of the intolerant.
Stopping bigots is not bigotry against the bigoted.
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That's because you're prejudiced.
Oh, looks like we need to add another:
Stopping prejudice is not prejudicial against the prejudiced.
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Oh, I'm able. I'm just unwilling.
Which is very telling. You know the flaw in your argument, so you'll avoid any questions that point it out.
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You're just being passive-aggressive because your bigotry caused you to pre-judged me and think that inane questions were pertinent to the position that I must be taking. Turns out you were wrong about me.
Turns out I nailed you.
This whine of yours is precisely proof positive.
Rrhain
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