Now wait just one second before you call me a racist, bigot, crazy right-wing kook. (Sad virtual walk of shame from all liberals reading this who cannot stomach a word as tenacious and gloomy as discrimination - but come back liberals, I promise I'll have some content you will enjoy as well.) So anyways, discrimination... it's a bit of a touchy word especially coming from the jackpot lottery winner himself - a white male, well at least according to the liberals. But let's delve into the world of discrimination and see what we discriminate against every single day of our lives. First, long long ago when you were conceived, your parents had a YUUUGE conversation on the brink - where do they want you to go to school. Now, that may seem sweet and innocent, but to the Orwellian left and the Social Justice Warriors (SJW) of today your parents just committed a felony of the first degree - discrimination. That is correct, well hopefully the felony part will never materialize in society but you get my point. Your parents used discrimination to try to get you the best possible education while remaining in their budget (ahh there's that sweet sweet fiscal conservatism). So you've been raised on discrimination since you were in the womb, it's time to just admit your a selfish bigot already.
As we trek further down the game of life, we are met by our dear friend discrimination yet again - this time instead of choosing schools, the situation involves picking friends. (Do you see how discrimination is really choice misguided by propaganda, and do you remember what having the ability to choose actually means?) So have you ever had that one friend that you just weren't allowed to hang out with? Your parents didn't like him/her and most of the time it was for good reason - your friend was a bad influence, didn't act in the way you were taught to act, etc. Now there are exceptions to every rule, but generally speaking your parents did a rather swell job in picking your friends. One can make this distinction for oneself as he/she grows up and then starts choosing his/her own friends. Rarely, in my experiences at least, were the parents wrong about the friend they discriminated against. But can you see how discrimination plagues us? Now I jest, but it is important to realize how deeply involved discrimination actually is in our lives - and more importantly how most of the time it is a rather good thing.
Let's look at a couple situations where discrimination can save lives. Imagine you are a gun store owner. Since taxes are so high in your community, you cannot afford to hire any employees, and thus you run the place all by yourself. In walks a big burly ogre, he has a thick mustache, and he is missing most of his teeth. He's looking for a shotgun, and initially you are reluctant to help. Something seems suspicious about this guy. Now this guy is not the most intelligent guy ever, for the story's sake. So as he's browsing the shotguns he begins telling you about how his wife did him dirty and cheated on him. She stole his pick up truck and stormed out of the trailer park. Now he's in your store to buy the gun to get revenge, and since he is not intelligent, that's what he says next. At this moment you know your suspicions from earlier are true and now you refuse him service. In other words, you discriminate against him, for what he said, based on your previous discriminations on how he acted and looked. And you saved a life. But if the government mandated that you should not discriminate against any individual for any reason, well then his wife is as good as dead. See how this stuff can get tricky?
Our second situation we are going to glance over is one I'm sure the libertarian community is fluent in - and one reason why I'm not exactly #FeelingTheJohnson as much as I once was (more on that later!). This situation involves a Jew, a gay nazi, and a cake. So the question asked to Governor Gary Johnson by Austin Petersen (both of whom are running to be the Libertarian Party's representative) during the FOX Stossel Debate was should a Jewish baker be forced to bake a cake for a gay nazi's wedding? This question has some depth in it and is one I challenge you to ask all your liberal friends - and watch their heads explode! So the question is pretty simple - should the government use their monopoly on force to enslave a Jewish baker against his/her will to serve someone he/she fundamentally disagrees with? Have your liberal friends' heads exploded yet? If not, give them this situation - a known KKK member walks into a barbershop dominated by African-Americans and demands service. Upon refusal, the KKK member calls his local law enforcement agency to inform them that he was discriminated against and they need to force the African-American barber to give the KKK member a fresh cut. I had a liberal friend of mine completely fine with making the African-American barber cut the KKK member's hair, and he went on to call me a racist bigot. Do you see the hypocrisy that afflicts the left? We should not be losing this battle.
Okay okay, these past situations are on the extreme end of the ideas of discrimination, so let's look into something a little more applicable - firing someone. First, let me just point out that as an employee you can, at any time, quit your job. What you're doing is discriminating against your place of employment in hopes that you will be treated better at another location. That's all fine and dandy until the employer, who has the same liberties of the employee - that is the ability to terminate the contract for whatever reason they see fit - has to fire someone. On the employee's end, this usually has to do with hours, pay rates, and treatment; whereas on the employer's end its the employees' productivity, enthusiasm, and skill that will cause the firing. Now this isn't much of a problem if it's a white male that is fired - we are much too privileged to begin with. But as soon as a female is fired, the employer is a sexist bigot and potentially lawsuits can insinuate. This makes firing individuals extremely difficult and curtails the growth we should see in terms of GDP (more on that later!).
Without further ado, let's get into why discrimination leaves such a sour taste on most of our tongues. People overlook all the innocent subtleness of discrimination to overemphasize racism and sexism that is inherent in discrimination. Now let me just say that I think racism and sexism are both dangerous routes, and we have an individual responsibility to our fellow man to treat them as we would want to be treated on the simple basis that we all are indeed humans. The great Martin Luther King Jr. expressed this in his most famous speech by saying, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character." Now, I won't get into how King's family won a court battle proving he had been assassinated by the government, and I will omit how the government mandated slavery with the slave codes, or still treated African-Americans unfairly with the Jim Crowe Laws. No, I am going to give you a personal recollection of racism and sexism in my life, and how we can move forward to end racism, sexism, and true bigotry.
I can say with utmost integrity that when I was growing up I never saw color. I believe that is true for most millennials too, who grew up in a world where racism and segregation were at an all-time low. I had an African-American uncle, and when school sports were a big part of my life, I always related to my African-Americans teammates and developed strong, lasting friendships with many of them. I only acted different around girls that I had a crush on, partly because I'm a tad bit socially awkward and the other reason is I thought the person from the opposite sex was cute. I would even go out of my way to impress a girl - hardly the sexism I am sometimes accused of by the tyrannical left. So, in my heart of hearts, I believe that racism and sexism are on their final brinks of life. But that does not mean that they do not exist. When one discriminates against another based on race, sex, religion, etc. I think it is one of the lowlights of the entire human race. But in light of recent events, it is perceived as becoming the norm. Now I don't think that is true per se, but ideas like Donald Trump's wall to keep out hard working minorities (instead of making it easier to come here legally... more on that later!), the Black Lives Matter movement - mainly the death of Eric Garner (he was killed over cigarette taxes guys, taxation is not theft, taxation is armed robbery that can lead to death), and the feminists of the world today - and while they all have some logical reasoning backing them (some more than others) they are overlooking one major idea. They, and more generally the entire left, believe that not only is it the government's responsibility to protect against discrimination, but only the government and legislation can END discrimination.
Unfortunately, this is just not true. If we want to actually put an end to evil discriminations against race, sex, religion, and the like then we need to not look towards government, and instead look towards the free markets. Now, if you mention that to a liberal, they'll complain about how a lack of discrimination laws will create chaos and African-Americans will be treated so poorly and unfairly that they will not even entertain the idea that it could work (or that it will work). And as you fall deeper down the rabbit hole with me, we will go into detail about how much more efficient the private sector is in solving society's mishaps when compared to the government. It all begins with the fallacy that when the government forces businesses not to discriminate then that, in turn, means that they are not racist, or sexist, etc. But nothing has changed fundamentally, they are simply playing by the rules. However, when you allow businesses to discriminate, then you know exactly which businesses are run by bigots. When government is involved, their bigotry is hidden behind smoke and mirrors, but when the free market is involved, these individuals get exposed. In the internet age we are living in today, that negative exposure can and will cause a domino effect throughout the consumers of that business who will then allocate their money to another business. A business who does not discriminate based on race, sex, religion, etc. As this picks up more and more steam, the bigoted business goes into bankruptcy and every other business in the free market learns a valuable lesson - that racism, sexism, and other forms of nonsensical discriminations will not be tolerated. Voting with one's dollar rather than voting on a ballot, affects change more rapidly, and the change lasts longer as it becomes engrained into society. People who criticize the free market always fail to realize that failing in the free market leads to better innovations, better allocations of scarce resources, which results in an increased quality of life for everyone. If we want to actually affect change in terms of discrimination then we need to stop trying old age ideas of government intervention and realize the world is full of people eager to give everyone a fair chance, just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted.
As we trek further down the game of life, we are met by our dear friend discrimination yet again - this time instead of choosing schools, the situation involves picking friends. (Do you see how discrimination is really choice misguided by propaganda, and do you remember what having the ability to choose actually means?) So have you ever had that one friend that you just weren't allowed to hang out with? Your parents didn't like him/her and most of the time it was for good reason - your friend was a bad influence, didn't act in the way you were taught to act, etc. Now there are exceptions to every rule, but generally speaking your parents did a rather swell job in picking your friends. One can make this distinction for oneself as he/she grows up and then starts choosing his/her own friends. Rarely, in my experiences at least, were the parents wrong about the friend they discriminated against. But can you see how discrimination plagues us? Now I jest, but it is important to realize how deeply involved discrimination actually is in our lives - and more importantly how most of the time it is a rather good thing.
Let's look at a couple situations where discrimination can save lives. Imagine you are a gun store owner. Since taxes are so high in your community, you cannot afford to hire any employees, and thus you run the place all by yourself. In walks a big burly ogre, he has a thick mustache, and he is missing most of his teeth. He's looking for a shotgun, and initially you are reluctant to help. Something seems suspicious about this guy. Now this guy is not the most intelligent guy ever, for the story's sake. So as he's browsing the shotguns he begins telling you about how his wife did him dirty and cheated on him. She stole his pick up truck and stormed out of the trailer park. Now he's in your store to buy the gun to get revenge, and since he is not intelligent, that's what he says next. At this moment you know your suspicions from earlier are true and now you refuse him service. In other words, you discriminate against him, for what he said, based on your previous discriminations on how he acted and looked. And you saved a life. But if the government mandated that you should not discriminate against any individual for any reason, well then his wife is as good as dead. See how this stuff can get tricky?
Our second situation we are going to glance over is one I'm sure the libertarian community is fluent in - and one reason why I'm not exactly #FeelingTheJohnson as much as I once was (more on that later!). This situation involves a Jew, a gay nazi, and a cake. So the question asked to Governor Gary Johnson by Austin Petersen (both of whom are running to be the Libertarian Party's representative) during the FOX Stossel Debate was should a Jewish baker be forced to bake a cake for a gay nazi's wedding? This question has some depth in it and is one I challenge you to ask all your liberal friends - and watch their heads explode! So the question is pretty simple - should the government use their monopoly on force to enslave a Jewish baker against his/her will to serve someone he/she fundamentally disagrees with? Have your liberal friends' heads exploded yet? If not, give them this situation - a known KKK member walks into a barbershop dominated by African-Americans and demands service. Upon refusal, the KKK member calls his local law enforcement agency to inform them that he was discriminated against and they need to force the African-American barber to give the KKK member a fresh cut. I had a liberal friend of mine completely fine with making the African-American barber cut the KKK member's hair, and he went on to call me a racist bigot. Do you see the hypocrisy that afflicts the left? We should not be losing this battle.
Okay okay, these past situations are on the extreme end of the ideas of discrimination, so let's look into something a little more applicable - firing someone. First, let me just point out that as an employee you can, at any time, quit your job. What you're doing is discriminating against your place of employment in hopes that you will be treated better at another location. That's all fine and dandy until the employer, who has the same liberties of the employee - that is the ability to terminate the contract for whatever reason they see fit - has to fire someone. On the employee's end, this usually has to do with hours, pay rates, and treatment; whereas on the employer's end its the employees' productivity, enthusiasm, and skill that will cause the firing. Now this isn't much of a problem if it's a white male that is fired - we are much too privileged to begin with. But as soon as a female is fired, the employer is a sexist bigot and potentially lawsuits can insinuate. This makes firing individuals extremely difficult and curtails the growth we should see in terms of GDP (more on that later!).
Without further ado, let's get into why discrimination leaves such a sour taste on most of our tongues. People overlook all the innocent subtleness of discrimination to overemphasize racism and sexism that is inherent in discrimination. Now let me just say that I think racism and sexism are both dangerous routes, and we have an individual responsibility to our fellow man to treat them as we would want to be treated on the simple basis that we all are indeed humans. The great Martin Luther King Jr. expressed this in his most famous speech by saying, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character." Now, I won't get into how King's family won a court battle proving he had been assassinated by the government, and I will omit how the government mandated slavery with the slave codes, or still treated African-Americans unfairly with the Jim Crowe Laws. No, I am going to give you a personal recollection of racism and sexism in my life, and how we can move forward to end racism, sexism, and true bigotry.
I can say with utmost integrity that when I was growing up I never saw color. I believe that is true for most millennials too, who grew up in a world where racism and segregation were at an all-time low. I had an African-American uncle, and when school sports were a big part of my life, I always related to my African-Americans teammates and developed strong, lasting friendships with many of them. I only acted different around girls that I had a crush on, partly because I'm a tad bit socially awkward and the other reason is I thought the person from the opposite sex was cute. I would even go out of my way to impress a girl - hardly the sexism I am sometimes accused of by the tyrannical left. So, in my heart of hearts, I believe that racism and sexism are on their final brinks of life. But that does not mean that they do not exist. When one discriminates against another based on race, sex, religion, etc. I think it is one of the lowlights of the entire human race. But in light of recent events, it is perceived as becoming the norm. Now I don't think that is true per se, but ideas like Donald Trump's wall to keep out hard working minorities (instead of making it easier to come here legally... more on that later!), the Black Lives Matter movement - mainly the death of Eric Garner (he was killed over cigarette taxes guys, taxation is not theft, taxation is armed robbery that can lead to death), and the feminists of the world today - and while they all have some logical reasoning backing them (some more than others) they are overlooking one major idea. They, and more generally the entire left, believe that not only is it the government's responsibility to protect against discrimination, but only the government and legislation can END discrimination.
Unfortunately, this is just not true. If we want to actually put an end to evil discriminations against race, sex, religion, and the like then we need to not look towards government, and instead look towards the free markets. Now, if you mention that to a liberal, they'll complain about how a lack of discrimination laws will create chaos and African-Americans will be treated so poorly and unfairly that they will not even entertain the idea that it could work (or that it will work). And as you fall deeper down the rabbit hole with me, we will go into detail about how much more efficient the private sector is in solving society's mishaps when compared to the government. It all begins with the fallacy that when the government forces businesses not to discriminate then that, in turn, means that they are not racist, or sexist, etc. But nothing has changed fundamentally, they are simply playing by the rules. However, when you allow businesses to discriminate, then you know exactly which businesses are run by bigots. When government is involved, their bigotry is hidden behind smoke and mirrors, but when the free market is involved, these individuals get exposed. In the internet age we are living in today, that negative exposure can and will cause a domino effect throughout the consumers of that business who will then allocate their money to another business. A business who does not discriminate based on race, sex, religion, etc. As this picks up more and more steam, the bigoted business goes into bankruptcy and every other business in the free market learns a valuable lesson - that racism, sexism, and other forms of nonsensical discriminations will not be tolerated. Voting with one's dollar rather than voting on a ballot, affects change more rapidly, and the change lasts longer as it becomes engrained into society. People who criticize the free market always fail to realize that failing in the free market leads to better innovations, better allocations of scarce resources, which results in an increased quality of life for everyone. If we want to actually affect change in terms of discrimination then we need to stop trying old age ideas of government intervention and realize the world is full of people eager to give everyone a fair chance, just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted.