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That was my point, actually. He's a libertarian leaning conservative justice who agrees that allowing businesses to discriminate is wrong because it impinges on the innate right to better oneself...

Clarence Thomas (Supreme Court Justice) who is black and has some very libertarian leanings and is considered the most conservative on the bench weighs in on this issue with Reason Foundation:
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You're still free to dislike anyone you want to. Your point is completely false.



Libertarians are the ones playing the what-if scenarios. What if _everything_ was privatized? What if we let...

What is your ideology doing to stop racism?

The magical "free markets" are going to stop racism when?

Yes, I do want to reduce so called "freedoms" for the backwoods inbred hicks who do not want to rent to someone or give service to someone solely based on their skin color (oh noes I'm such a fascist...

Mtguy8787:

It's impossible to have a discussion here because you simply detract from what anyone says but you give no alternative message or countering point. You just say they're wrong or...

Renters have other reasons that they can use to reject an applicant. They're not forced to rent to anyone, but they can't use discrimination as a basis for their business.

Technically you don't...

It's a matter of equity. We are a country of meritocracy, and when some individuals are not given the opportunity to succeed and have limited opportunities based solely on the color of their skin,...

The Civil Rights Act has nothing to do with Communism, Socialism, Fascism or whatever ism. There's no need to bring those up.

The majority of Americans support equality for all that is vested in...

Attractiveness is subjective. Skin color is not.

You're conflating personal preference with discrimination. Someone choosing not to be with an ugly person is evolution at work. Someone choosing...

@Mtguy8787:

You are reason #1 why I dislike this forum. You do not foster an environment for intelligent and thoughtful debate for countering viewpoints.

I was going to reply to you in...

He's not a racist, but this is one of the biggest cases where it shows the shortcoming of the Libertarian logic in the real world. Absolute individualism sounds great in theory, but once theory...

Limbaugh represents the conservative movement well: Family values and strong moral background...Minus the fact he's been married and divorced three times and was addicted to hillbilly heroin (while...

Mayo Clinic is just a hospital, what does it have to do in regards to private or socialized health care?

I don't think this is helping the debate; one could just bring up a poor performing...

Make it a sticky so people can see how stupid BakedBeans is - which is pretty evident - I might add.

The initial investment into building massive highways was not from gasoline taxes.

The gas tax covers a decent portion of maintenance, but not huge expansion projects and the backlog of...

I don't think that not educating someone who doesn't pay taxes is going to solve anything. You're going to make a ****ty situation worse.

Education is key to a free society.

Ultimately nothing...

Could it be stated that your "fruits of labor" was helped along through someone else's hard work (taxes)?

Or you must live in a vacuum?

I don't think you want socialism. I'd prefer a system where we are economically free to achieve wealth but still have a socially responsible mindset.

Good post Nutsy. I think McCain should have done a 360 from Obama and simply labeled him a tax and spend liberal - which he is.

He should have voted down the 700 billion dollar bill on the premise...