NuRayZ said:
Okay REGARDLESS of the source of this video, i just wanted to get your take on Rand Paul. I don’t need to be reminded this is an interview from msnbc, it’s clear from the 5 minute intro they are making him out as a straight up racist. It’s obvious MSM is scheming and twisting him to try and answer their question. But regardless of all that, take the content and answers he has given (or lack there of). I don’t think he’s a racist, but his stance on civil rights is just a little to 1800’s. I mean seriously, if you believe it’s okay from private businesses to discriminate, that makes you look pretty *edited* bad. He has a huge chance of losing now, and NOT because of MSM but because of his very odd views on civil rights. Still, he’s in Kentucky where people are just as nutty as him.
The MSM is afraid of this guy because he’s a 100% pure free-business conservative which is going to resound VERY strongly with small business owners across the country. It’s obvious they want to destroy this guy because instead of focusing on his views on MODERN topics they can’t get past his interpretation of events that occured when he was in diapers.
Like you said, he’s not a racist but he does think that businesses should have the right to do exactly what they want without interference from the government. If you listen to his NPR interview, he wasn’t talking specifically about “serving” as much he was about “hiring” and this is a 100% common-sense argument. If you have a white person that is perfect for the job and a black person that barely meets the minimum requirements for the job, why should the government have the right to tell you that you have to hire the black person over the white just to meet your racial quotas? Doesn’t it make more sense to just let the business hire the person best suited for the job? This is a double-edged sword and I’ll gladly take the cuts for it because when I get hired I want it to be because I’m most qualified or the hiring supervisors felt me the best pick, not because I’m white.
You’ll notice that when Rachel Maddow started drilling him on his stance on allowing restaurants to segregate their counters he made an extremely compelling counter-example in reference to gun-rights in restaurants and is typical for MSNBC she completely ignored it. You have the constitutional right to take your firearm anywhere you so desire yet restaurants have the authority to bar you from possessing a gun if they so desire. If restaurants have the ability to bar you based on what you wear or are carrying why is it magically not ok to bar you entry based on what you look like? It’s an extremely slipery slope and the point I think he was trying to make is that if you empower restaurants to refuse service based on some criteria you have to allow them to refuse based on all possible criteria. If a restaurant wants to refuse service to a chunk of the local population, let them, it will undoubtably hurt their sales and will destroy their reputation in town but it’s their right to do so. If a company wants to hire the best and most qualified employees regardless of race, let them.
Government controls should only affects businesses that receive government funding.