RPB wrote:
Makes me wonder if Senior Discounts are legal where "age" discrimination is a big deal, or is that age discrimination against the non-elderly. Perhaps IHOP (Senior Discount) and Whataburger (free drinks/refills for Seniors) should have food licenses pulled too.
Yeah, the guy screwed up, and if it was Washington DC where only one gun dealer is, it might need investigating. Perhaps he should get a "public reprimand" and repent with some sanctions ...
Of course if you follow the letter of the law they are not legal. IMO the "ladies nights" that so many bars/night clubs use to have aren't either. (Maybe still do for all I know.) Trouble with all this is that there are protected groups and there PROTECTED groups. Insurance companies discriminate on bases on sex and age all the time. They say they aren't, they are basing their rates on statistics. I believe them but the boundaries are based on boundaries of protected groups, but not PROTECTED groups. I'd bet you could use statistics to show that the preponderance of terrorist are Islamic. Doesn't mean that all those who follow Islam are terrorist, no more than all teenage male drivers are bad drivers. But insurance companies can get away with it.
Of course discrimination seems to be very one way. It is a federal hate crime if a white person attacks a black, but not if a hate crime if it is a black attacks a white. I know the assumption is that in the first case the assault is based on race but not in the second.
XnTx wrote:
I wonder if it could be argued that since the state issues CHLs, only after documented training by a state licensed CHL instructor, that he is essentially an agent of the state and bound by the same requirements which would eliminate his right to refuse service without cause. Doing so, it seems, should put his CHL instructor license at risk.
It is of course possible but I really doubt that being a licensed CHL instructor makes him is an agent of the state. At least it shouldn't. I was under the impression that the license simply said he knows what to teach and agrees to teach it. Same with any other state issued license. My teaching license says I know enough Chemistry, Physics, and Math to meet the state's requirements. It doesn't make me an agent of the state. If anything it makes me the agent of a school that hires me to teach. Are either private hospitals or insurance companies agents of the state? Don't know but doubt it.
Can private hospitals, who are licensed by the state, turn away patients who can't pay? The do all the time, specially for non life threatening emergencies. While it may be non politically correct to say, that ability does often run along lines of race. Insurance companies, which must be state licensed, can choose who they wish to insure and who not. I guess as long as they say they base their decisions on a protected group, such as age or sex, it is OK, but wouldn't be if they based it on a PROTECTED group, such as race.
Strange world we live in. Ran by lawyers, for the lawyers. Why else would it make a difference if you use non-lethal vs. less than lethal force? Also it seems no matter what is said and/or done, someone will be offended. If they're loud enough about it all sorts of folk will jump on the band wagon.
Of course we have the brain washing of the media, who some say are controlled by the government, playing a large role in what the group, meaning public at large, thinks. Muslim's seem to be under fire since 9/11. Now we have new show about to air called "All American Muslim". Could our present administration have something to do with that?
As I said earlier, it is an interesting world we live in. (Just in case; To all the grammar Nazi's out there, I know that it isn't proper to end a sentence with a preposition and please excuse any spelling and/or typing errors. FWIW, I am such a bad speller that every time my wife asks me how to spell something I expect the ground to start shaking because of my former teachers rolling in their graves. Oh-Oh, just insulted dead teachers. Hope they are protected and not PROTECTED.
Better hide before the black boots get here!
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