menciusmoldbug
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That's because you don't know your history.I think even the most racist of individuals would not buy a property where potential buyers are so limited, but that isn't what your asking.
In 1963, a long time ago but in the lives of many now living, the citizens of California, by a majority of nearly two-thirds, voted to pass a law called Proposition 14. This amended the state constitution to add the following:
"Neither the State nor any subdivision or agency thereof shall deny, limit or abridge, directly or indirectly, the right of any person, who is willing or desires to sell, lease or rent any part or all of his real property, to decline to sell, lease or rent such property to such person or persons as he, in his absolute discretion, chooses."
In other words: if you don't want to live with persons of color, you don't have to. The amendment, obviously, turned out to be unconstitutional, just like this one; and we have persons of color to this day in California. In fact, we have so many of them that California in 2008 elected Barack Obama, noted person of color, by almost the same margin that its 1963 predecessor passed Prop. 14.
As in the last thread we interacted, you seem to be completely ignorant of the existence of joint ownership arrangements. Sadly, as you learned nothing then, I don't very well see how you can be expected to learn anything now. But I'll go ahead and talk you through it in the hopes that someone else reading this might not be quite so mentally impaired.How could I be more clear on my belief in property rights? If one, two, ten, 100, people own ALL the property in a given town, and they ALL have the policy that restricts the entrance of "beggars or bums or homeless . . . Moslems, Hindus, Jews, Catholics, etc.", then where could the "beggars or bums or homeless . . . Moslems, Hindus, Jews, Catholics, etc." go that wouldn't be violating someones property rights? But it is not a town decree that makes this so, it is the individual property owners. It would not restrict these individual owners from their freedom of association, to sell or allow on their property which resides in this given town "beggars or bums or homeless . . . Moslems, Hindus, Jews, Catholics, etc." if they so decide.
It is possible for two or more people to join their assets in order to purchase a piece of property that none of the individuals in question could afford on their own, thereby granting them joint ownership over the property. Individuals who make this sort of arrangement are generally referred to as "corporations." If a corporation were to purchase a town or village (or a mall!), it would likely want to rent out the various buildings and stores within that territory in order to turn a profit on the land. Corporations, by their very nature, occasionally take actions not supported by all of their shareholders. Thus if 51% of the voting shares in a corporation wish to instate a policy that bans "beggars or bums or homeless . . . Moslems, Hindus, Jews, Catholics, etc." from corporate property, such a policy will be put in place over the objections of the 49%. Would you object to this? If so, on what grounds?
btw, normal people call corporations of this nature a "government."
WE are not to determine who gets what, unless the property is ours. Generally you gain ownership of a property by buying it from the previous owner, sometimes inheritance, sometimes by way of gifts.

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