[Buckeye McFrog]

Most here are loathe to admit it, but we sacrificed the “absolute right to refuse service” with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Business owners have not actually had such a right since the day it was signed.

We did it for the most noble of reasons. But put ourselves on a very slippery slope in the process. Unintended consequences.

[cripplecreek]

We did it for the most noble of reasons. But put ourselves on a very slippery slope in the process. Unintended consequences.

Its exactly why Barry Goldwater opposed the 1964 version. He was fine with affirmative action in government and federally funded programs for a while but warned that inflicting it on the private sector would be a disaster. He himself was practicing affirmative action in his own offices and personal business dealings before it ever became an issue.

[subterfuge]

Most of the “we” youre talking about are dead. I was 8 years old myself.

Greatest generation my ass.

[DogWrangler]

Noble? I think that’s naive. I think there was a concentrated effort going on at the time to undermine American confidence in its own institutions, and the 1964 CRA was in part an outgrowth of that. There was a lot of talk at the time about “Communist infiltration” and “Communist agitation,” and people may laugh, but it was proven later to be true.

Subversion of the American way of life was a known Communist goal.

And you speak of “unintended consequences” in terms of property rights, which is one problem - but what about the effect on American cities? Can you look at any major Southern city now and say that it is better-run, more prosperous, or in better shape than it was in 1950? And I think that was not an “unintended” consequence at all.