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Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers by BobaFloutist on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:39PM (#42704930)
>Just as, for example, if a business decided (if it was legal) to only allow people of a certain race to enter, I would like to think that most members of that race would be disgusted enough to boycott that business and the business will rightly fail.

We literally have federal laws outlawing this because it was, in fact, a selling point to exclude other races. Are you unaware of the history, or just hoping that racism has successfully been ended in the United States?

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Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers by jahewson on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @06:03PM (#42705129)
1964 was 60 years ago.
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Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers by BobaFloutist on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @06:15PM (#42705252)
So you think if the law was removed from the books people would simply choose not to have racist public establishments in 2025?
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Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers by shric on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:51PM (#42706414)
Most businesses struggle to stay afloat without adding racial discrimination.

I suspect almost all such businesses would die quickly.

So yes, there would be such public disgust and stigma that even those patrons who valued such a business would hopefully hesitate to expose their bigotry.

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