darthgoober
Senior Member
Originally posted by Robtard
Your post is so very odd. Yes and no, cos it's not like David Duke is President or CEO of a fortune 500; where someone like that is beyond open with their beliefs/views.The thing about food service and minorities. Now sure how that has anything to do with what we're saying?
As far as "true racism", did you not see the Charlottsville rally? We literally had hundreds of Nazis marching like it was 1933 Germany and I assure you that wasn't all the Nazis in America; let alone all the other people and/or groups with similar beliefs. Racism in America is a problem, friend. Are things massively better than say 20, 30, 50+ years ago, absolutely. But there's still a problem in our law enforcement, in our legal system and our penal system when it comes to a person's race.
I honestly think that's whacked. I sincerely hope we never go back to something like "Whites Only Restroom" and I was born after that ended. Just ugliness for a society to accept that as normal. Little acceptance steps like that can also lead to greater ugliness.
Yeah Duke is rich and has followers, but that's not the same as having direct political power. And don't get me wrong because keeping anti discrimination policies on the books for the US government isn't something I'm opposed to at all, I'm talking about private businesses. And just because Duke himself is great with money it doesn't mean all the racists are going to be successful.
Yeah, hundreds of racist who came from all over the country. But we live in a country of more than 350 MILLION people. There could be 100k white supremacist and it still wouldn't even be close to 1% of the population. When you get right down to it, less than 1% is pretty much statistically insignificant. You can have a whole lot of something and still have it be be relatively little when you're comparing it to a big enough number.
And I would definitely prefer that there were no more "Whites only" restrooms too, but if they reappeared all it would really do is let minorities and people who are against racism know where not to spend their money. Capitalism is one of the great equalizers. If a business alienates non racists then it's not going to thrive the way it otherwise would. Sure there will be a few that do well if they're managed by someone as business savvy as Duke, but if they're that business savvy then they'd be as likely to become successful even as things stand. More so actually because right now they're being forced to cater to minorities and minorities are giving them money as costumers. And if they're avoiding giving them business because they know it supports racists, then nothing really changes by allowing a "whites only" sign.