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Re:Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Face... by 6AA4FD on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:20PM (#23602871)
Denying service obviously requires discrimination: you normally provide the service, but you intentionally don't provide the service to certain customers you pick out from the rest.

But jim crow laws aren't bad because they are just discriminatory, they are bad because they discriminate based on race. Racism, sexism, and classism aren't bad because they are kinds of discrimination, but because they are inappropriate grounds to discriminate on. A good example of a basis to discriminate on is sexual misconduct: if any of my friends want to ostracize or refuse service to someone who has recently been convicted or accused of sexual misconduct, I won't mind at all. But if instead they want to ostracize or refuse service to someone who is black or latino, I will mind a lot. This is because I don't care whether they are being discriminatory, but what grounds they are discriminating on.

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Re:Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Face... by Fricken on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:43PM (#23606360)
If a company denies products and services to poor people because they can't afford them, and those people are poor as a result of generations of systemic racial oppression, then that company is guilty of racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is a cornerstone of the whole socioeconomic system.
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