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pnutjam | 9 months ago

The classic, I'm not a "whatever terrible thing", but those terrible people are ok and it's fine for them to be terrible.

Guess what that makes you?

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ch4s3|9 months ago

It really isn't that at all, he argues that it's wrong to discriminate but that government interference in the freedom to make contracts isn't the best solution. He goes on to elaborate an make a case for how else it might be better addressed. The article intentionally misleads by clipping the quote out of context.

pnutjam|9 months ago

But it is. This the the same argument against minimum wage. It's just wrong. The government should absolutely set a floor on wages and discrimination. There must be a standard to minimize friction. It's just not something that anyone can do by themselves.