History repeats itself.
Posted on 04/17/2009 9:09:30 AM PDT by AnOldCowhand
Alarmed that a professional golf association proposed to exclude competitors who don’t speak English, the state Senate acted today to prohibit businesses in California from discriminating against customers, including refusing them service, based on the language they use.
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State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) said the policy raised an issue that required changes to state civil rights laws that already protect employees from discrimination based on language.
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SB 242, which now goes to the Assembly, was approved on a 21-15 vote, with Republican lawmakers opposed based on concern it would open businesses up to a rash of civil rights lawsuits if customers felt they did not get good service.
Yee noted the bill protects English speakers as well from being discriminated against by non-English-speaking business owners. The bill includes an exemption that says firms can require a specific language to be spoken if it is justified by a "business necessity," such as clear communications for safety, and that notification is provided as to when and where the language restriction is to be observed.
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Never buy anything from California and never send my tax money to the left wing anti-Americans that run the state of California.
“...the state Senate acted today to prohibit businesses in California from discriminating against customers, including refusing them service, based on the language they use.”
How the hell are you going to serve someone you can’t understand?!?!?!
My advice to businesses who don’t want to be bothered with bilingualism: just keep repeating “what?” and “I don’t understand you.” until the non-english speaking (would-be) patron gives up and leaves. And if they get prosecuted for failing to provide service, tell the judge it’s not your responsibility to learn every language out there to satisfy the demands of these politically-correct, multi-cultural Nazis.
I have the opposite problem, my local market, has spanish speaking clerks.. I cannot under stand them... I go there often as it is the only market close by, it is a large IGA market.. but if there is a dispute on my bill etc.. I usually ask them to speak english as it my money they are disputing..and they usually call a bi lingual clerk to talk to me..
History repeats itself.
So I'm expected to serve any dimbulb off the street who comes into my store and calls me a M*****F******?
Oh, they don't mean that kind of language, you say?????
Congress shall make no law(s) restricting FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
My “freedom of speech” is predicated on my speaking and communicating in the ONE language that I speak and understand. By some strange circumstance English is the language of my country, learned 2 generations ago by the European relatives who came to the USA.
I use English to describe to my customers the intricate repairs required by their articles. I use English to tell them the cost and the time required.
I tell my English speaking doctor my problems and he tells me in English what must be done.
I have STOPPED ordering from a parts company that proudly employs an order clerk that cannot understand what I am saying and gets 70% of an order wrong. Will the LAW require that I suffer constant mistakes.
I thought that California has reached the bottom. They surprised me big time. I can’t wait to see what is next.
My family didn’t legally immigrate here to the United States, leaving a Third World craphole, to come live in another Third World craphole like Mexi-fornia.
Leland Yee used to be ok, but since spending 10 years in the California Senate he has become a tool.
Leaves for the nearest lawyer's office and sues the business owner for statutory damages.
And if they get prosecuted for failing to provide service, tell the judge it’s not your responsibility to learn every language out there to satisfy the demands of these politically-correct, multi-cultural Nazis.
And the Judge says, "Read the statute, amigo, and pay up."
That’s the way I read it.
As your constituent I urge you to co-sponsor S.991, The English Language Unity Act of 2009!
The United States is one of the few countries in the world without an official language.
Public opinion polls show that 84-87 percent of the American people from all walks of life support this common sense idea.
A majority of 30 U.S. states have already made English their official language.
Please help protect our nation’s unity in the English language by supporting S. 991.
As your constituent I urge you to co-sponsor S.991, The English Language Unity Act of 2009!
The United States is one of the few countries in the world without an official language.
Public opinion polls show that 84-87 percent of the American people from all walks of life support this common sense idea.
A majority of 30 U.S. states have already made English their official language.
Please help protect our nation’s unity in the English language by supporting S. 991.
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