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Orrin Hatch: Drug Tests for the Unemployed

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TampaKnight6/17/2010 3:35:25 pm PDT

re: #246 iceweasel

This is sounding suspiciously like Rand Paul’s points about how the Civil Rights Act is just so unfair to business— that and ADA compliance.
“If a business doesn’t want to serve black people, that’s their right! Shop somewhere else if you’re black!”
“If a business doesn’t want to spend the money building a wheelchair ramp, that’s their right! Roll off somewhere else!”
“If a business wants to demand invasive information from employees, that’s their right! Just work somewhere else!”

I’m seeing a whole lot of concern for the rights of corporations lately, not so much for the rights of entities that genuinely have rights— like individual persons.

*I am not implying that you in any way endorse Paul’s wackiness or agree with him, but pointing out the parallel. You’re going to need a better philosophical justification for drug testing than what you’re coming up with so far, otherwise Paul’s points appear to follow from your own.

This is absolutely nothing like barring blacks from working somewhere.

Terrible, terrible comparison.