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Rand Paul Favors Allowing Racial Discrimination

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)5/20/2010 3:05:44 pm PDT

re: #302 RogueOne

I’m beginning to think that you believe you’re actually making an argument.

Let me show you why you’re not:

Individuals have the right to believe what they want. If they want to be bigots, so be it. If they want to be elitists, so be it.

Sure. You’re talking about belief. No problem.

If they want to be elitists, so be it. The government has no constitutional authority to tell us with whom we have to associate.

Well, they definitely do. For example, if you are accusing someone of a crime, you are forced to associate with that person. Or a witness to a crime. Hell, you’re forced to associate with the whole court. So what you’ve said is definitely not true. The government has, constitutionally, at least one case where it can force you to associate.

If a company wants to be known as a racist organization, that’s their right as far as I’m concerned.

Do you believe it is still their right to benefit from public works while doing so? Works paid for by not just their taxes, but the taxes of those they discriminate against?

We don’t have to get along, we don’t have to like everyone, and the government doesn’t have the constitutional authority to force us to believe what we choose not to believe.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with this argument.

You keep switching back and forth between belief and action. This is the fundamental flaw in what you’re saying, and may be why you think you’re presenting an argument when you’re not.