ext_97971 ([identity profile] enders-shadow.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2011-10-30 11:40 am

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http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/313613

Second amendment rights. But only for Christians and McCain voters.

This is really dumb, and I'd like to see everyone in this comm agree that the owner of this store is violating the law and discriminating unjustly. That is my view, if there is another view out there, please, share it with me.
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[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe, maybe not. It's not the state's business, regardless.

You and I likely wouldn't enter an establishment that was discriminatory. Few would overall. It likely wouldn't end well for those businesses.

[identity profile] chessdev.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That message brought to you by:
UNAWARE OF AMERICAN HISTORY....

"We dont just speculate, we refuse to research too!"

[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure what this has to do with a supposed awareness or lack of awareness of history.

Of course discrimination - both state-required and not - ran rampant. That does not mean the prescription was the right one that protected all rights.

[identity profile] chessdev.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights in the South 1865 - 1964.


I mean REALLY? You *really* have no idea the ramifications of what you're defending...even though it's general deemed one of the greatest social evils post-Slavery???

[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
What about them, exactly? Jim Crow laws were institutionalized discrimination, for instance. No one's calling for it.

I know full well the ramifications. Freedom of association is more important than the potential ramifications.