Friday, February 18, 2005

Rights Turns" using Small Steps


I just heard the author of Right Turns on the Al Franken Show. He has some "unique" ideas for someone who talks out loud to express. His complaints and reasons also show the major problem with his ilk.

He believes that the Civil Rights Act should not have been passed. His reasoning is that small business owners shouldn't be told who they can hire and who they should fire. He blames this on the small business owner ethic that helped bring his family into the middle class and up.

This is a case of running the true story through the righteous blender and rephrasing it to match whatever idea they have.


I just heard the author of Right Turns on the Al Franken Show. He has some "unique" ideas for someone who talks out loud to express. His complaints and reasons also show the major problem with his ilk.

He believes that the Civil Rights Act should not have been passed. His reasoning is that small business owners shouldn't be told who they can hire and who they should fire. Boycotts and marketing would have corrected the problem. He blames this on the small business owner ethic that helped bring his family into the middle class and up.

This is a case of running the true story through the righteous blender and rephrasing it to match whatever idea they have.

I have been in plenty of jobs (the super majority of them) where people made bigoted statements while in the hiring process.. The government never came in and many people probably think this doesn't happen much.

The govt didn't make them hire the people they looked down at so much. It surely didn't lower the pay of the women during one hiring project below the men who were hired.

Businesses are licensed and get to operate under certain rules in our society. They pay taxes and have accounting and reporting practices they must follow depending on the practice.

Asking them to give someone with dark skin the same consideration as someone with light skin, even though you believe they are genetically and spiritually abhorrent seems less interfering than controlling labor hours of children and employees, paid taxes and wage guidelines.

Using the Logic blender we could start whining about small businesses not able to hire small children or even adults and pay them 5 cents an hour while missing school and not permitting them to leave.

Businesses are members of our society and community.

Don't marry that Cambodian if you don't want to - but at least try to act like an American and give them the same consideration to be able to get ahead.

What a burden!

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