Fox News Poll on Title 2 Civil Rights Act

[TruthisTreason]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/index.html


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[torchbearer]

No, the federal government shouldn't decide whether businesses can select their own customers 72% (8,619 votes)

 

[PeacePlan]

No, the federal government shouldn't decide whether businesses can select their own customers 72% (8,619 votes)

WOW that surprises me?

 

[Live_Free_Or_Die]

72% lol

 

[sailingaway]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/index.html


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Man, this is sparking a real discussion of 'taboo' subjects! BOY will liberal media regret this!!

 

[MsDoodahs]

amazing, amazing....

 

[lordindra3]

OH MY GOD!!! Wow.... Ok, at first I couldnt believe it. I thought maybe DP spammers or something, but that is downright impossible given that there has been over 12k people that have polled! Just shows you how out of touch the liberal MSM truely is!

 

[economics102]

I'll bet if you poll JUST business owners this question, a good majority would say they should have the right to refuse to serve a customer for any reason -- regardless of whether those polled are liberal or democrat.

The reality is that there's an enormous anti-business sentiment in this country in general. People who have never owned a business have probably never even thought about this question before.

As a business owner who operates a business that fortunately does not fall under the "public accommodation" classification, I can and do choose my customers based in part on simply whether I like them as people or not. I consider that one of the great freedoms I have.

I think a good question to help non-business-owners wrap their head around this is: should job interviewees have the right to turn down a job offer because they don't like the race of the employer? Because that's pretty much how I look at it, as a private business. Every time a customer approaches me to do business, I view it as a job offer. And I turn them down based on a whole litany of reasons that are not always based around hard dollars-and-sense, because I'm spending 60 hours a week running my business and one of the pleasures that comes with the job is that I surround myself with customers whom I genuinely like, just as I surround myself with friends whom I genuinely like.

 

[torchbearer]

I'll bet if you poll JUST business owners this question, a good majority would say they should have the right to refuse to serve a customer for any reason -- regardless of whether those polled are liberal or democrat.

The reality is that there's an enormous anti-business sentiment in this country in general. People who have never owned a business have probably never even thought about this question before.

As a business owner who operates a business that fortunately does not fall under the "public accommodation" classification, I can and do choose my customers based in part on simply whether I like them as people or not. I consider that one of the great freedoms I have.

I think a good question to help non-business-owners wrap their head around this is: should job interviewees have the right to turn down a job offer because they don't like the race of the employer? Because that's pretty much how I look at it, as a private business. Every time a customer approaches me to do business, I view it as a job offer. And I turn them down based on a whole litany of reasons that are not always based around hard dollars-and-sense, because I'm spending 60 hours a week running my business and one of the pleasures that comes with the job is that I surround myself with customers whom I genuinely like, just as I surround myself with friends whom I genuinely like.

yeah, as a computer tech, i don't keep costumers i don't like. its usually has to do with how they treat me and my service.

 

[Carole]

The sad part is that if the polling trend continues in this vein and they publish it over the air, it will be misconstrued to suggest that Americans are racist rather than that they believe in Constitutional private property rights.

So the way they design the poll question might "nudge" that interpretation.

 

[Michigan11]

As a business owner who operates a business that fortunately does not fall under the "public accommodation" classification, I can and do choose my customers based in part on simply whether I like them as people or not. I consider that one of the great freedoms I have.

I think a good question to help non-business-owners wrap their head around this is: should job interviewees have the right to turn down a job offer because they don't like the race of the employer? Because that's pretty much how I look at it, as a private business. Every time a customer approaches me to do business, I view it as a job offer. And I turn them down based on a whole litany of reasons that are not always based around hard dollars-and-sense, because I'm spending 60 hours a week running my business and one of the pleasures that comes with the job is that I surround myself with customers whom I genuinely like, just as I surround myself with friends whom I genuinely like.

I also work for myself and will refuse people I don't like, as you know there are alot of idiots out there you just don't want to do business with.

To the original post, voted and still at 72%. I haven't heard anyone talk about this MSNBC bullshit, and I am sure the public does not care. I really think it's just politics, and the people see it as such. Rand is only going to gain from this, the people are waking up to these games. GO RAND!

 

[slothman]

I wonder what the answers would be on CNN or somewhere.
I wonder what the answers would be for blacks or whomever.

Where on the site was the question?
I couldn't find it.

 

[Bruno]

I wonder what the answers would be on CNN or somewhere.
I wonder what the answers would be for blacks or whomever.

Where on the site was the question?
I couldn't find it.

Bottom middle of the page

 

[MichelleHeart]

And they try to portray Rand Paul's views on Title II of the CRA as "radical" and "extreme."

 

[JMann]

Not to let facts distort reality but the Woolworth sit-in occurred in 1960 and are a great example of a free market solution to an economic problem. Brave, mostly teenage, black and white kids demonstrated with sit-in, pickets, and boycotts to open the lunch counter. It wasn't the 1964 Civil Rights Act that made the change.

 

[Promontorium]

The sad part is that if the polling trend continues in this vein and they publish it over the air, it will be misconstrued to suggest that Americans are racist rather than that they believe in Constitutional private property rights.

So the way they design the poll question might "nudge" that interpretation.

Hopefully keeping this issue in the breeze will allow a bit of intelligent discourse to seep in, and possibly change the atmosphere of perpetual ignorance and mob mentality.

Let this issue rest now, and Rand will forever be stamped a racist. Force the discussion, and possibly a few idiots will turn on their brains for a moment and think about the circumstances beyond the buzz words.

 

[yaz]

he's catching on, I'm telling ya