Re:Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
by otterley on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:40AM
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These laws exist because the market doesn't work the way we want them to. If discriminatory businesses failed because they were discriminatory, we wouldn't need such laws.
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Re:Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
by ams6110 on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:42PM
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If people didn't recognize discrimination, we wouldn't have enacted those laws.
The market would have eventually driven these discriminatory businesses to bankruptcy. Majority public opinion had changed. That's why we were able to pass the laws. Would there be some holdouts? Maybe, but they probably wouldn't have lasted in the face of protests and pickets and lack of customers. Those that did would not be numerous enough to matter.
Re:Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
by otterley on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:50PM
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If you don’t believe that discriminatory companies don’t necessarily fail because they discriminate against minorities (especially small businesses in segregated communities), I kindly suggest you read Katzenbach v. McClung, 379 U.S. 294 (1964) and Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964).
The landscape may have evolved since, especially with large companies, but if you don’t believe there are still scores of small businesses in small towns who get away with discrimination on a frequent basis, you should get out some more.