ihopehefails
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Rand isn't running on getting rid of the CRA, though. And he isn't saying "We should go back to the days of Selma!" either explicitly or implicitly.2 Different people, Rand is by far more Libertarian than Palin..
But I have to highly disagree with his stance on the Civil Rights Act..
Isn't it stated "That All Men Are Created Equal" in the Deceleration of Independence? We have to live up to that, saying that Government can't interfere with Companies discriminating against Blacks, Hispanics or Whites is probably the most idiotic statement I've probably ever heard..That's true!
He's suggesting business-owners should have the Right to discriminate-against/segregate-from ALL minorities.
Actually people do have the right to discriminate simply because it is a part of their free-will in how they wish to live their life. I'm not endorsing it at all but why do other people believe they have the right to determine what other people do with their own stuff?
I'm beginning to see that people who claim to be liberals really believe that people only have rights that they themselves grant to others. The problem with this thinking is that it leaves each of us vulnerable to having our rights removed from ourselves by the same people. Think of Jim Crow laws where people believed that blacks could not do XYZ even though they were entitled to do XYZ simply because it was their natural right to do so. Its really the same thing because the racist said "they don't have the right to do that" and now a different group of non-racist people are saying to the resturant owners "they don't have the right to do that". How do we determine what people can and can't do and why do we even have a say in what they can or can't do when everyone is created equal to begin with?
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