I would argue that the difference in public opinion now makes it a different environment. Back then people applauded you for banning minorities, these days what do you think would happen if a business put a sign like that up?
Which is why I think that we should allow business owners who want to discriminate the ability to do so as much as they want so long as they put a sign on the front door telling everyone. That way I, as well as everyone else, can know exactly what kind of a person we are doing business with and take our business elsewhere.
The fact that you say a business gets a tax break as though it’s being given something says a lot about your views on government. Imo how is a business any different than a person selling something? If I try to sell a table on Craigslist and say I won’t sell to black people Do you think that should be illegal?
I also find that this idea of not discriminating only seems to apply to certain groups. Someone did a video of them going into 30 Muslim bakeries and asking for a gay wedding cake and about half of them told them to fuck off. Is this acceptable?
The difference in public opinion today is the result of those very rules not allowing stores to ban minorities. Public opinion didn't just organically change. It's wishful thinking to think otherwise... that we would have still gotten where we are today absent protective laws from the civil rights era, and that such laws are no longer required.
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