candycorn
Diamond Member
Again, straw-man. You're making stuff up because you can't articulate your position and defend it with a rational argument.Segregation was government enforced, and no one wants to go back to that. There was a state law that said blacks had to ride in the back of the bus. It wasn't the decision of the bus company. Public restrooms were built by the state and local governments, so that isn't an example of freedom either. It's an example of government imposing its will on blacks. Separate lunch counters were also government enforced. The entire apparatus of segregation was enforced by law. Those laws were created in the first place because private business were not inclined to discriminate against paying customers and bigots didn't like it.
Your attempt to paint freedom as being responsible for segregation didn't hit the target. Government is what enforced segregation, not private businesses.
Private businesses were the ones who insisted on the laws, because they didn't want to serve "Those People' or they wanted to keep "Those people' in their place.
It was government- namely Federal Civil Rights Acts - that put an end to segregation.
Today's toothless rednecks don't recognize the authority of the Federal Government (when the black guy is in charge anyway).
Incidentally, you're also proving the bigotry of liberals with the "toothless rednecks" stuff. Funny how you people declare yourselves "tolerant" and throw around endless racist and sexist terms.
The only people I know that don't recognize the authority of the federal government are the unhinged asshat libertarians, sovereign citizens, and anarchists. Every conservative I know completely recognizes and respects the authority of the federal government. The problem is, they recognize only the 18 enumerated powers that the federal government is constitutionally restricted by, where as you demand that conservatives recognize the federal government as having unlimited powers "for the good" of society because liberals have brainwashed you into believing such nonsense and your pissed off that conservatives won't follow you on it.
From her perspective, if you don't support the laws liberals have forced on us, then you don't recognize the rule of law. However, you're free to oppose any law that liberals don't like.
Liberals forced you to stop lynching blacks? How terrible.