Most people only think they support the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because they don’t know what it contains and because portions of it go unenforced
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Benny Huang as the law celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Another reason people support the CRA is because they don’t want to be called racist. The power of that word—racist—to close minds and mouths is unparalleled.
But there are plenty of good reasons to oppose this lousy, unconstitutional law that have nothing to do with racism. Republican
Republican Senator Barry … Goldwater’s opposition to the 1964 bill was threefold: that it represented an unconstitutional power grab by the feds, that it would be an endless source of litigation, and that it would force sovereign citizens to engage in involuntary economic transactions. The senator has been proven right on all three counts.
If liberals want to demonstrate their love of the CRA they could begin by following it; the whole thing, not just the parts that they like. The law bans discrimination in government and private commercial enterprises (which they erroneously label “public accommodations”) based on five protected categories: race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
Liberals still support discriminatory practices based upon three of these categories—race, sex, and religion.
In regards to race and sex, liberals favor
policies that give preference to women and racial minorities as a means
of redressing historical grievances. Unfortunately for them, the law
they claim to love so much does not contain a “redress of grievances”
loophole no matter how much they wish it did. A preference for blacks is
just as illegal as a racial preference for whites; a preference for
women is just as illegal as a preference for men.
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If liberals were administered a healthy dose of truth serum they might stop lying long enough to tell us what they really mean—they don’t really like laws that prohibit religious discrimination because religion is silly superstition at best, violent and repressive at worst, and thus not worthy of protection. They don’t say that because it makes them sound like bigots, which they are. They would also tell you that they don’t really oppose discrimination based on race or sex as long as the victims are always men of fair complexion.
