Festival charges whites more for tickets then blacks

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  1. Robert E Allen

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    Yet you want to go after bankers for doing the same thing a quarter of a century ago.....
    Whatever dude.
     
  2. Doug1943

    Doug1943 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes. What I mean is that, short of some big national emergency, government should not try to regulate private behavior.
     
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    Doug1943 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The production of offspring between people who are closely related genetically is a bad idea. Prohibiting incest is a form of eugenics. Nothing wrong with eugenics, so long as it's voluntary ... in this case it isn't, and is more a reflection of the customs of the countries people live in.

    If in her country of origin, brother-sister marriages are all right -- I have no idea whether they are, or not -- then she just continued a native custom in a country with different customs. I'm a million times more concerned with her political beliefs than I am with her sexual habits. In fact I'm not concerned about the latter at all, so long as they involve consenting adults, and I am not forced to affirm that they're normal and wonderful.

    And there's a pragmatic issue as well. This married-her-brother stuff is a distraction from her political beliefs. It would be interesting to find out what they are ... so far I've only heard her say things that Pat Buchanan was saying near thirty years ago. And I would assume that every Muslim supports the Palestinians against the Israelis, just as I assume every Greek and Armenian supports their countrymen against the Turks, and vice versa, Serbs vs Croats, Catholic Irish vs the British, etc etc. I would include the Jews as natural supporters of Israel, but I know so many who are critical of it, including some who are probably more critical of Israel than Omar, I have to leave them out.

    Although their country is a sick joke, Somalis themselves are pretty capable people. Here's the opinion of another Somali-American, with lots of pertinent information: [Source]

    Wall Street Journal
    12 July 2019
     
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    Yes, it was racist. Hopefully they dont succeed in turning a profit and shut down.
     
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    Russian are bright, warm, friendly, educated, intelligent, pragmatic people. And there are not many Liberals among them :D
     
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    Don’t think so. But do gimmi an example?
     
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    White males are exempt from protections provided for by the constitution for other races and the other gender.

    The university I went to banned white males from campus which should be illegal if white males were equal to other races and the other gender because it violates the 14th amendments equal protection clause but alas white males are not seen as equals to minorities and women.
     
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    I do not think they are exempt, just whites are less likely to sue

    discrimination based on race applies to all races, even whites
     
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  9. Doug1943

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    It's been a while since I went to museums in France, but as I recall, some of them had different prices depending on your citizenship. I had a quick
    Google and found this information about admission to museums in France:
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    That seems to be the case ... another website said that in France
    [Source]

    Not that it's relevant, except as a marker for how times have changed, and how the current Arbiters of Virtue were once not so virtuous, but ... back in the 60s, various Marxist groups in New York City would have parties to which they would invite their 'contacts' -- people they were trying to recruit. These were advertised with the following inducement: "Women and beer free".
     
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    Festival Fail and completely bigoted...…Westboro should go there to be dlcks.
     
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    I'd like to see a picture of the white people that knowingly paid the different price, but I have a feeling I already know what they look like.
     
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    No one paid a different price as the suggestion of different prices was not taken up once tickets went on sale on Eventbrite.

    It's quite telling that the writer of the OP liked your post even though he had already been made aware that the price difference was removed and he did nothing to correct you. Propagating fake news is a MO of many.

    Eventbrite does not give a box asking what color you are
     
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    Knowing them firsthand, I can assure you that Russians and Eastern Europeans, in general, are not supportive of gay right, gun rights, or any rights in general, yet love it when government provides pretty much everything for free. Not exactly liberal, yet far from being truly conservative.
     
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    Perhaps. But barbarians they are not. My description thus stands.
     
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    The ruling elite has been deliberately bankrupting small farmers for decades, if not centuries, if not millennia. Where are the reparations for everyone else? I understand that when things happen to blacks its so much more devastating than when it happens to whites, but still---where are our reparations?
     
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    I say they should have charged the whiteys quadruple the ticket price of blacks. Any white dumb enough to go to a black festival deserves to be charged extra.
     
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    You say that... I sourced they were racist, including the government itself.
     
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    well since racism is treating people differently only because of the color of their skin then yes what they are doing is racist

    Do they have a right to do it as a "private festival" yes is it racist and wrong yes
     
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    That's racial discrimination, which is illegal (and immoral).
     
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    The legality or otherwise of something is one thing. Something can be illegal and moral -- helping an escaped slave was once thus.
    It can legal and immoral -- by today's standards, having sex with a 12 year old girl, 70 years ago in various Southern states was thus.

    On morality: I can't see why it's immoral, in some general, natural law kind of way, nor in any pragmatic way.
    Why do you think it's immoral?

    Many Black people hate whites. Many others may not hate them, but don't like them, they resent them. Why shouldn't they be able to meet together to enjoy themselves without the presence of ugly thin-lipped, sharp-nosed sickly-pale skinned ape-hairy descendants of slave owners?

    Why shouldn't they be able to charge what they like to whom they like? It's their private affair.
     
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    Terrible and wrong
     
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    Because it’s illegal?
     
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    Suppose it were not illegal. How would you respond?
    As I said, something can be illegal and perfectly fine to do, according to me. Having a drink of alcohol was illegal at one point. Helping an escaped slave escape was illegal at one point. Smoking the leaf of a plant is illegal in some states, and then I step over an imaginary line into another state and it becomes legal.

    I think the question is not about the technical legality or otherwise, but about whether it is, in some general, universal sense, immoral -- contrary to Natural Law if you believe in that.

    I personally don't think so. And I don't think so in a pragmatic, immediate way, either. No white is going to have his feelings hurt because Blacks don't like him, or shouldn't anyway. We're not discriminated against, , we weren't slaves, when we knock at somebody's door at 11pm because our car has broken down on a lonely road and we just want to use their telephone, we're not met with fear and maybe a cocked .38. Come on, let's see it from the other guy's side for once.
     
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    That’s a strawman....it is t legal and if it was I would oppose it.
     

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