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If a local business owner professes to being a total racist, am I being intolerant or prejudice if I spread the word to all my friends to avoid his business and not give him any of your money? I know this isn't a perfect analogy, but I think you get my overall point.

Pretty standard boycott. Of course within your rights, and if anyone wanted to lend support to the boycott/protest or criticize it, that's within their rights as well. To me, how appropriate the boycott is would depend on the particular circumstances. If the guy is actively discriminating in hiring and service, then I'd support it. If he just said racist things and nothing else, I don't get what the endgame is. Are you gonna bankrupt him into not being racist anymore? You're only attacking thoughts.

Either way, it's all within your rights. And my criticism or support is within my right. And no matter what, even if you really are morally superior, you're taking a stand. When you take this kind of stand for other people (children in fact), force it on them in a public setting, now you've got fascism.

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Posted by onmymedicalgrind

Nunya

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Posted on 9/13/14 at 3:27 pm to genro

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he just said racist things and nothing else,

But how you know there is "nothing else" is the issue here. If someone says extremely racist, hateful remarks towards a group of people, I think its reasonable to have some skepticism whether he also treats the same people with the utmost level of fairness and respect when no one is watching. Do you disagree?

But again, whether its within my rights wasn't my question in my previous post--of course it is . My question is, am I being prejudice and/or bigoted if I tell all my friends to avoid this racist's business, like you insinuated in one of your prior posts?

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