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When my younger brother was about 3, he had an infection in his throat. My parents rushed him to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing.
From my mother, Dr. Brown - a black doctor - ran down the hall rolling up his shirt sleeves and straight into surgery where he performed an emergency tracheotomy. He was more concerned about saving a life than taking time to scrub in... and probably saved my brother's life in the process. Skin color or ethnic background does not make anyone the best person for the job - their ability to DO the job is what matters.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Skin color or ethnic background does not make anyone the best person for the job
Exactly my point... 
Except prejudice and bigotry say otherwise.
That's why there are quotas. I'm not saying I agree with quotas, but I'm not saying they are evil either.
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Spot on - the thing is people complaining about "positive discrimination" are failing to address the fact that there is already existing discrimination. Hopefully, over time, both will dwindle to nothing.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Oh don't get me started on this. I realize freedom of speech applies moreso to the government. But even outside of that, humanity will never advance if we always censor those who don't agree with us.
Jeremy Falcon
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"Freedom of speech" by design must protect unpopular speech.
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private employers are not the government. (yet)
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When they are regulated up-the-wazoo, then one could argue they are the gov't.
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one would lose that argument
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maybe, but it wouldn't be because it wasn't true.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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no, it would be because you can't just change the meaning of words to suit your political agenda.
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The courts have ruled that if I act on behest of the police (a part of the gov't) then I in fact, even though a private citizen, become a defacto government agent. Taking this to the present case then, if a company is acting a certain way due to requirements of law and regulation and "consent decrees" they in fact become government agents. Just my feeble logic here.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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a private company is not the government. full stop.
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it is when it is acting at the behest of and as an agent of the gov't.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The PTB beg to differ
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Totally agree.
Jeremy Falcon
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This guy was not arrested so his freedom of speech was not compromised or infringed upon in the slightest. He is now suffering from the consequences of his actions but in the USA we do NOT have the right of freedom from consequences.
Yet. 
modified 8-Aug-17 18:40pm.
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I would argue that the only "consequence" for unwanted, undesirable speech should be more speech directed at the speaker of undesired speech, not loosing one's livelyhood.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Businesses have the freedom to employ whom they choose to (within the constraints of immigration law) and I do not think that should be reduced in any way.
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Rick York wrote: within the constraints of immigration and employment law
FTFY
I agree. Just saying that I don't think the consequence meets the "crime". It's overblown and overdone. I don't think a valid reason to fire someone is because they disagree with the company "culture" or think differently than the "company line". So long as they can do the job, they should be able to express themselves however they see fit.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I agree, but we can't start adding more laws to "fix" this. It just ads more problems to the already overreaching government. But we can call Google stupid idiots for it. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: we can't start adding more laws to "fix" this. It just ads more problems to the already overreaching government.
I agree with the second part of your statemen... but you will be proven wrong with the first one. Einstein told it, human stupidity and universe... you know what I mean
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: we can't start adding more laws to "fix" this
Agree. Too much regulation as it is.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: we can call Google stupid idiots
  
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Pathetic, because reading that memo, he brings up what I think are legitimate points of discussion and consciousness raising. As it stands, all this political correctness we've been seeing over the last 50 years is a double-edged sword -- racism, bias, discrimination: bad. Talking about racism, bias, discrimination has also become "bad" unless you're a graduate of Goddard College (as an example) in which case you're seen as "a radical force for change for a better future" or some such BS when in reality many of the people that pick up these causes are actually suffering from psychological problems.
Marc
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