Hair discrimination?

[TheTexan]

I would never discriminate against anybody with any type of hairstyle.

I would

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1993429225009787143

[bold emphasis in the original - OB]

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a philosophical and moral disaster.

Not just in hindsight (which is the claim older conservatives are now making), but using information available at the time.

The disastrous consequences should have been clearly foreseeable to any intelligent person alive at the time who had not been successfully psyoped by the KGB paymasters of the 60s counterculture movement.

Sadly, there were few such. The Soviet infiltration of the American counterculture had a vast footprint, and very few people realized at the time that this was not a grassroots phenomenon, but an organized propaganda and funding effort by the second world.

Those who did were dismissed as cranks and loonies, and it was only once the USSR collapsed that we had direct access to primary sources telling us it was all 100% true.

Some people in the west refuse to believe it to this day.

One of the direct results of this program, the CRA64, effectively abolished the freedom of voluntary association, not just in the cases it covered, but in general principle... through the precedent that it established.

And the goal was to abolish all other freedom, too.

The argument was made that discriminating in housing, employment, etc, by private individuals, on the basis of race, was unfair. This was the rationalization under which the bill passed into law, and which has subsequently been enshrined as the secular religion of the left.

But this idea assumes that the state has both the power and the right to force private individuals to make private decisions according to the state's definition of fairness.

This was the death of American libertarianism, a blood sacrifice on the altar of kindergarten classroom values, with every American citizen in the role of the four year old child.

This was the thin end of the wedge, the Marxist recipe for a totalitarian USA.

First, Wickard v. Filburn established the new reality that the power of the federal government was not limited to those actions enumerated in the constitution. It could, in fact, do anything.

It could tell you what you could and could not own, eat, drink, wear, buy, sell, read, write... anything.

Remember "prohibition"? Because it happened before Wickard v. Filburn, it required a constitutional amendment for Congress to take your beer away. Today, they could just do it.

They can do anything.

Second was the CRA64. This established the precedent that the fed not only COULD do anything, but SHOULD do anything, provided it thought doing so would make the universe "more fair".

With this second step, all legal and philosophical barriers to totalitarianism were knocked flat, and the only thing that remained for Marxists to do was conduct the long march through each and every American institution, painstakingly constructing and selling the "fairness" rationalizations for each policy which would gradually place every aspect of individual daily life under federal government control.

Six decades later, here we are.

The fact that it is obvious in retrospect, but was not obvious at the time, seems to have led some people to believe that the "civil rights movement" was infiltrated by communists.

No, it was instigated by communists. The communism was coming from inside the movement all along.

Principled, non-communist classical liberals would have said "Yes, racial prejudice seems mean and unfair, but we cannot possibly allow the state to enter into every aspect of life to purge the unfairness from it."

And perhaps some of them did. But they were shouted down, and then erased from history, by others.

By the same people who spent have spent the last six decades puffing themselves up about having "marched with King".

Those were not classical liberals. They renounced any claim to the title when they sold their libertarian birthright for a bowl of equality soup.

And, and yours.

They sold yours, too.

 

[jmdrake]

Does this mean the military can't shave your head in boot camp?

I challenge you to watch ^this video from about 10:30 in. The YouTuber is a military analyst for the right wing news channel Newsmax. Here he expresses concerns over Hegseth's "no beardos" postion because, according to this anaylyst, black men are disproportionately affected by razor bumps (1 in 3 according to the analyst) and if all of the black men with razor bumps end up leaving the military because they can't get a beard deferment we'll lose about 2 to 3 brigades and we won't have enough men for the war this analyst thinks we'll have to fight against China by 2038. Now....I am personally against war with China so maybe that's a good thing I don't know. But it's interesting to see someone who is about as far away from "woke" as someone can be to speak up in favor of "hair diveristy" even if it's just facial hair.

 

[nikcers]

I don't know when we all collectively decided not to like hair.

Some people blame porno for the anti-bush movement that took the world by storm.

Something definitely changed around 50 years ago though.

Before that it was Bush everywhere. Every direction you looked it was guaranteed to be in the direction of a bush.

Maybe it was the hippy movement that started the bush movement and it was LSD's fault for creating it and when the government cracked down on LSD and made it illegal thats when everyone became anti bush?

There's a reason why tyrants crack down against jokes. By laughing at something, one asserts a form of psychological dominance over it.

 

[TheTexan]

If you have crazy hair I'm gonna assume by default that you're crazy I think that is a reasonable discrimination

 

[TheTexan]

I don't know when we all collectively decided not to like hair.

Some people blame porno for the anti-bush movement that took the world by storm.

Something definitely changed around 50 years ago though.

Before that it was Bush everywhere. Every direction you looked it was guaranteed to be in the direction of a bush.

Maybe it was the hippy movement that started the bush movement and it was LSD's fault for creating it and when the government cracked down on LSD and made it illegal thats when everyone became anti bush?

There's a reason why tyrants crack down against jokes. By laughing at something, one asserts a form of psychological dominance over it.

Thanks as always for your on topic contribution

 

[nikcers]

Thanks as always for your on topic contribution

I think its tyrannical that the state can force people into not being discriminatory over hair.

There's this important thing with businesses that make them profitable and winning and that comes from having a company culture.

Businesses that aren't profitable cannot compete and close down and collapse.

 

[TheTexan]

I think its tyrannical that the state can force people into not being discriminatory over hair.

There's this important thing with businesses that make them profitable and winning and that comes from having a company culture.

Businesses that aren't profitable cannot compete and close down and collapse.

It's not tyrannical because it's a political system and you're a sovereign member of it and if you don't like it you can submit your disapproval and your disapproval will be acknowledged and sorted into the appropriate bin

So what's the problem

 

[nikcers]

It's not tyrannical because it's a political system and you're a sovereign member of it and if you don't like it you can submit your disapproval and your disapproval will be acknowledged and sorted into the appropriate bin

So what's the problem

Demographic entrapment.

There are situations in which there is a conflict between the interests of the people and the liberal psychopaths in which I share this country with.

 

[TheTexan]

Demographic entrapment.

There are situations in which there is a conflict between the interests of the people and the liberal psychopaths in which I share this country with.

Yea that sucks if only there was a solution to that

 

[nikcers]

Yea that sucks if only there was a solution to that

 

[Working Poor]

Maybe people will stop hating Michelle now that California passed this law.

 

[acptulsa]

There are situations in which there is a conflict between the interests of the people and the liberal psychopaths in which I share this country with.

There are situations in which missives are indecipherable due to the pretensions and disdain for proper use of the language which into clankers has been programmed that I unfortunately have to share this forum with.

 

[nikcers]

There are situations in which missives are indecipherable due to the pretensions and disdain for proper use of the language which into clankers has been programmed that I unfortunately have to share this forum with.

My preferred method of communication is a parable but it seemed like TheTexan might of misunderstood so I went with the blunt approach.

My favorite parable from Texas has to be the Alamo.

The characters in that story resonate with the American struggle for liberty especially the Last Stand that Davy Crockett fought.

Some people say he fought to the death and others say he was simply executed after losing the battle.

We all still say "Remember the Alamo" to remember that the struggle for America's liberty is worth fighting for, and its worth dying for.

Its also a reminder that if you lose the battle they will kill you.

 

[acptulsa]

My preferred method of communication is a parable but it seemed like TheTexan might of misunderstood so I went with the blunt approach.

If you thought a Texan might have misunderstood you, you should have tried typing English. I know, it's a counterintuitive approach, but I find that it works better than sticking your sentence in a word shuffler and having it come out as a line suitable for Yoda. Not just for Texans, but especially for Texans.

Its also a reminder that if you lose the battle they will kill you.

You're still the most bloodthirsty Machiavellibot I've ever encountered.