Quote: (02-08-2015 06:31 PM)blairnaso Wrote:
I believe restaurant owners should have the right to refuse people based on race. Morally, they shouldn't do it, sure, but legally they should be allowed.
This is a naive perspective, to put it mildly. By this logic (not an unpopular one), all sorts of things should be left to people's "morals." Go to NN's forum if you want to see what a Blair Naso Unregulated Paradise looks like. Just extrapolate that out to a societal level.
I'd say a comfortable majority of people need to be told what to do or not do--and then often made to do it. From using your blinkers when you switch lanes, to finishing your antibiotics so you don't create highly contagious drug-resistant strains of your stupid disease, to at least pretending to stomach all races in your restaurant in exchange for the privilege of doing business in our society, this is the shit that you have to keep going so that your kids and women (however insufferable and ungrateful as they've become) can walk around in a society that hasn't descended into a Mad Max-like state.
The threat of getting arrested by the cops, banned from a forum, or punished by the bearded man in the sky is often the only thing standing between you and Somalia. That's why I laugh at people who complain about the police wholesale. Yeah, some of them are power-trippin' cocksuckers who can't tell the difference between their jobs and Call of Duty anymore. But, until you've had to call the cops on a ghetto-ass bitch getting in your face or some Chinese restaurant owner who's pretending the hundy you gave him was a $20--and then watched how quickly the animal calms down or recovers its memory when it sees the man in uniform--you don't understand just how vital they are to keeping order without having to kick some ass constantly. The same goes for other forms of authority. Police alone won't keep the estrogen-producing chemicals out of your food.
The solution to the police state, that even tells you what to think, isn't its opposite: some laissez-faire free-for-all that sounds good in theory, but doesn't account for the realities of a large, modern society. What works for an unattended fruit stand on the side of the road, or the bowl of pennies at 7-11, doesn't work for a piece of creation spanning four time zones and with 325 millions souls.
Quote: (02-08-2015 07:25 PM)blairnaso Wrote:
Let's be realistic. In 2015, if a restaurant had a sign that said "No Blacks Allowed", then they'd go out of business in a week. White people wouldn't eat there either.
The irony is that this is very detached from reality.
If you put it in the right place, it would get packed. Have you ever spent any kind of time in Eastern Washington or certain parts of Idaho or Montana? Frankly, I think it could be a profitable chain in several pockets, if it were made legal. At worst, you could serve a niche market and make a decent living.
Shit, there's bound to be at least one or two forum members who would pop in.