Sharpshooter Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 How about this? Doing nothing is neither a positive nor a negative. If he neither encourages nor discourages bigotry, that is a flat out zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Goose- Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 What the hell: Surpassed Friday by Rebecca Black as most disliked video. Edit: I see you guys have already discussed this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key2thecup Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Ron Paul has some good ideas about foreign policy and I truly believe he is the most genuine of the bunch, but he has some wacko ideas about the economy and he doesn't believe in social security, medicaid, etc. He would also be a pretty big disaster, even though I'm sure he's a really nice guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Promoting a business environment that allows for bigotry in practice is not 'zero'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Colt 45s Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 I think it is funny how things are out of Obama's control. For the first two years of his presidency, he had a super majority in the House and Senate. He got things done. However, the things that happened during those first two years caused the American people to vote the Democrats out of the House, and they took losses in the Senate. I do not see that pendulum shifting in Obama's favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Does allowing an environment to flourish whereby bigotry is allowed to openly be expressed and practice, not giving 'aid' to bigoted people to express their bigotry? Does allowing an environment where bigotry was once not allowed to be expressed by business practices, not 'create' and new environment where bigotry is newly allowed to be expressed by certain business practices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Situation Posted December 10, 2011 Author Share Posted December 10, 2011 When did Ron Paul say he would repeal the civil rights acts as president? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Colt 45s Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 When did Ron Paul say he would repeal the civil rights acts as president? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 When did Ron Paul say he would repeal the civil rights acts as president? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 I would hardly consider removing existing restraints and letting the leash go to be "aiding and abetting". More like ridding the responsibility for it from one's hands. Man, you're very much exhibiting the "either you are with us or you are against us" mindset. Guess who gave us that (in)famous quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 From Ron Paul's own website: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government unprecedented power over the hiring, employee relations, and customer service practices of every business in the country. The result was a massive violation of the rights of private property and contract, which are the bedrocks of free society. The federal government has no legitimate authority to infringe on the rights of private property owners to use their property as they please and to form (or not form) contracts with terms mutually agreeable to all parties. The rights of all private property owners, even those whose actions decent people find abhorrent, must be respected if we are to maintain a free society. http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/civil-rights-act/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 "Removing constraints" = overturning civil rights laws. Again, is that not aiding bigoted people in public displays of bigotry through bigoted business practices? I don't know why it's so hard for you to answer a simple question. Are you naturally this ignorant about Jim Crow laws? Can you not see how those that applies here and now as well, if business were allowed to affectively segregate whites and non-whites simply on the discrimination of a person's skin colour?? Or don't you think Jim Crow type laws were racist?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Colt 45s Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Fundamental idea. Inalienable rights do not exist because the government gives it to people, or allows some to have it. Rather, humankind is endowed with those rights by their Creator. When all people respect each other, live by the ideal of the golden rule and two greatest commandments, there is no need for government to abridge those rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Situation Posted December 10, 2011 Author Share Posted December 10, 2011 That guy interrupts like Bill O'Reilly. I kind of agree with them both. Its both a liberal government ( as O'Donnell said) and an activist population (as Paul said) that bring about a reduction in racism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 "Removing constraints" = overturning civil rights laws. Again, is that not aiding bigoted people in public displays of bigotry through bigoted business practices? I don't know why it's so hard for you to answer a simple question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Are you naturally this ignorant about how business works? rofl.. Let me reiterate: - A business does not stand to benefit from racial profiling of people, neither for employment sake nor revenue perspective. - Businesses today in North America, but particularly the US since this topic is about that country, hire a rather substantial amount of people from foreign countries willingly on H1-B type worker visas. They aren't forced by government to maintain a quota of foreigners, most of whom tend to be a different race than the owner(s). The notion that businesses would suddenly be racist out of nowhere is unsubstantiated, horrendously alarmist (what a surprise), and utterly stupid and without basis. - Businesses try to play as much as they can in the world economy, which is why small and large businesses tend to hire foreign customer service/support, it placates to their bottomline. Anything that betters a bottomline = good for business. Racism = bad for business. I know, it's tough to understand all of this when you're too busy fapping to Jim Crow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Man, you really like set people up to put a misleading spin on their comments, don't you? Maybe cutting people some liberty will have some indirect side effect of enabling the people to go about their bigoted practices, but that is the people's own doing, not his. You can't accuse him of being a bigot for it anymore than you can accuse me of being a murderer if I just stood by and watched a murder take place without intervening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Colt 45s Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 It is too easy in America to cry racism and bigotry because of past wrongs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 If you have a racist person who has a business that caters to racist people, will that business, under Ron Paul flourish or fail?? Racist owners + Racist business + racist customers - anti-hate/racism/discrimination laws = good for business. Yes or No? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 This dumbcrap doesn't even want to get answers from Paul, he just wants to ask him a question, let him say two words, then interrupt and lecture him on civil rights. You're damn right it doesn't get any more clearer than that.. Ron Paul talks about repealing Jim Crow is good, guy ignores it. Ron Paul points out privacy and property law, guy goes on tangent about slavery and blacks in helicopters. Obviously they're speaking two different languages. Idiotic pundit shouldn't open his mouth until he understands what it is he's criticizing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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