Someonecan hold any opinion they want no matter how obnoxious. Just look at Sam for instance.
That said, the problem happens when they go from just holding those opinions to acting on them. Unfortunately from what I've been reading on Paul's opinions, as a senator he may try and act on them. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > A question for you: is it an individual's right to be racist? Do > people have a right to hold odious opinions? I would say that, yes, > they do. I will shun them and be disgusted by them, but I believe that > individuals have a right to hold opinions with which I stridently > disagree. > > Now, Rand Paul seems to believe that a corporation (a non-person) has > a right to not only hold a racist opinion, to the extent that a > non-corporeal entity can hold an opinion, but also to act upon it in > the form of refusing to do business with a person of a given race. I > believe that corporations do not have the same rights as individuals > and I believe that refusing to serve individuals goes beyond opinions > to actions as well. > > Hence I disagree with Rand Paul stridently but I don't think it is > necessarily because he, himself, is a racist (though he may be, I > don't know) but rather because I disagree with the tenants of his > philosophy. > > Judah > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Can one really be ambivalent about rascism? I think that either you are ok >> with racism or you are against racism. By remaining neutral on it, you are >> really saying that you are ok with it. Issues like this are really some of >> the few instances where it is pretty black and white (pun intended). >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:57 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: Tea Party thinks Businesses should be allowed to deny service >> to blacks. >> >> >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> It's not like he campaigned on a white supremisist platform. In fact I'd >> put good odds on a majority of the people who voted for him not having heard >> that opinion till after the fact. Americans >are kinda stupid about >> elections that way. >> >> I don't think he is a white supremacist, honestly. I take his view as >> being more about the relationship between private business and >> government. He feels that there is no reason for the government to be >> able to intrude in the relationship between a business and its >> customers. Taken to the logical (or illogical) extreme that view point >> means letting businesses discriminate on the basis of skin color. That >> makes him an ideologue but not necessarily a racist. >> >>> Also it seems a very odd view for a Libertarian. I know they believe in >> the absolute minimum laws, but the civil rights laws are ones that they >> generally agree are neccessary. At least the >ones I've looked into seem to >> think that way. >> >> Rand seems to be on the more corporatist side of the Libertarian >> philosophy. He appears to believe that corporations are an absolute >> good and, more precisely, that they are basically individuals. And if >> you take this view, America holds that individuals can have seemingly >> wrongheaded notions (like racism) but we still ensure them freedom of >> speech, association, etc. If you take this view to the extreme, once >> again, that means that it would be wrong to compel an individual (in >> this case a business) to associate with those that they would prefer >> not to, like black people. There is logic there even if I think it is >> wrong and rather twisted. >> >> Judah >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
