U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Reach of Age Bias Law

Reuters ^ | 9/30/05 | James Vicini

[InterceptPoint]

I'm sure the skin heads at the Aryan Nation are in complete agreement with you. I can imagine you telling an older woman that she is being fired because you don't want some old wrinkled up nigger nanny with kinky hair working for you. That's real freedom alright. What you advocate is pure plain and simple bigotry under the guise of some form of freedom as a business owner. Would you feel justified in firing a Jew because you don't like a certain facial feature. Your time ended with the pre-civil rights south, thank God.

Look, what you say sounds very bad. It makes me sound like a bigot. Let me assure you that I'm not. I have the best interests of all people everywhere in mind when I state my postion on this issue.

Suppose that you substitute the Government's judgment for the business owner's. What inevitably happens is that nice sounding rules (Affirmative Action sounds good doesn't it?) are put in place that make discrimination the law of the land. These rules are put in place to favor one political group or another depending on who has the power to make the rules. What you have then is a system where violation of some politicians goal of favoring one of his constituents can put you in jail. That is a dangerous thing. The alternative - let people discriminate freely. Yes there will be some disappointed old ladies who don't get the job at Hooters. But you won't go to jail because you didn't fulfill your quota of 37 to 39 year old Korean philosophy students for your toy factory management team (or whatever silly rule that the politicians decide to impose on you next.)

It is a lesser of two evils issue. When you let the government in, you let the politicians in. Don't do it.

[Walkure]

Civil rights laws infringe on the constitutionally sanctioned freedom of association. It is very unPC to say this, but it is true. InterceptPoint has a ... point here.