more votes than voters. 95%" to Hillary. 3% to Trump. Damn Russians.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...tein/95570866/
Oh Lee will not be erased from history any more than Hitler. But you don't find statues of the Fuhrer in Germany.
This fixation on self-esteem, where even 150 years after the fact losers must be coddled, and told that the enslavement and brutalization of millions of hunan beings for which they fought, somehow had some salvageable honor to it, is pathetic.
yes, I understand that one is Good and one is Bad.
I should have been more clear. I was referring to a legal requirement that a business must give service to someone who holds an ideology disliked by the business owner. It is the legal requirement that is the problem.
The Supreme Court is hearing the baker's case sometime soon, and I hope even Ruth Bader Ginsburg would not agree with your statement as a legal argument, but then who knows what she will come up with, I suppose anything to support the Good while sacrificing constitutional principle is ok.
Here is an interesting op-ed piece in the Times, which relates to what you said Yppej: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/o...imes&smtyp=cur
The bigotocracy is angry that slavery is seen as this nation’s original sin. And yet they remain depressingly and purposefully ignorant of what slavery was, how it happened, what it did to us, how it shaped race and the air and space between white and black folk, and the life and arc of white and black cultures.
If our Native American friends are right, and it takes 7 generations to erase the "original sin" of our fathers, we still have roughly 50 years to go before we work all this out.
When my kids were very small, I went with my DH on one of. his sales calls to Charlotte, NC. We were in the hotel elevator with an older white gentleman. We went up one floor, door opened, and a black family walked on. We went up one more floor, and that same black family walked off. The door closed, and the white gentleman said to us (within earshot of my young children, of course): "Glad that stench is gone. I don't just hate n---s, I despise them."
I have never forgotten that. I know that racism is sometimes more hidden in places like New York than NC but still. I was flabbergasted. He was talking to total strangers, assuming we would agree with him because we were white. I don't know what might have pumped him up with that kind of hate in his life, but it's just a horrible waste of energy,
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Being gay or transgendered doesn't qualify as an ideology, so refusing to provide a wedding cake is more like refusing counter service to people of color. Personally, I'd take my business elsewhere and broadcast the baker's bigotry among my friends, but it makes a good test case...
I won't shop at Hobby Lobby because they don't want to provide birth control through their insurance to their employees. If you run a business you don't get to choose your customers.
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