mikedilger on Nostr: In the old days it was always legal to deny service. Blacks in America could not stay ...

In the old days it was always legal to deny service. Blacks in America could not stay at hotels because every hotel owner logically thought "most of my customers are white and some of them probably don't want to be around blacks. So I'll make more money if I just stick to whites." This was why protected classes became a thing. But the old ways were that banks could deny you, hotels could deny you, people could openly discriminate for any reason they wanted to, and people knew what they owned by right, and what they were grateful for. Athiests were often discriminated against too.

I find it interesting how many people who have experienced discrimination for the first time in the last 5 or so years via cancel culture or vaccine mandates suddenly argue against it as if they have a right to not be discrimated against, even though many of them took the other side when it wasn't them being discriminated against. I'm not saying you are one of them.

And I take no firm side on the issue of discrimination, but I lean towards allowing it across the board because I lean towards respecting individual freedom. I say that even though I hate cancel culture and think that it is a cultural sickness.