re: #13 Ghost of Insanity

Everything you’ve written these last two comments could have been pulled out of my head verbatim. I listen to a lot of right wing radio (more than I should) and they really do believe it has all been fixed, or didn’t exist in the first place and the real bigots believe it’s deserved.

It might also come down to the conservative belief that only bad things come from government. Government discrimination is more obvious in it’s practice and effect. Personal bigotry on the other hand is not seen as having as much power. They don’t seem to make the connection between a critical mass of personal bigotry in a majority can lead to systematic and institutional bigotry that leads to huge problems for a minority. That’s why Barry Goldwater was against the public accommodations portion of the CRA. He thought only governments should be stopped from discriminating. He couldn’t wrap his mind around the damage that personal bigotry does and felt the right to freedom of association trumped all. Ron Paul and his son believe the same thing. It’s crazy because legal discrimination is just the personal bigotry of the masses encoded into laws.