March 03, 2014
In the mid-1960s, future Georgia Governor Lester Maddox“who truly has the perfect name for a segregationist”shut down his Atlanta restaurant rather than serve blacks. Does this make him a bigot, a man of conscience, or both?
I know someone who works in a sushi restaurant, and she says she dreads black customers because they are routinely rude, loud, and they never tip. Doesn”t forcing her to serve them violate the 13th Amendment’s clause against involuntary servitude?
In my years working as a Philadelphia cabdriver, I received a grand total of $1 in tips from my innumerable black customers. Even the black cabbies would complain about black customers” stinginess. Why does their “right” to not be discriminated against trump my “right” to make money?
Because, I fear, “rights” are a zero-sum game, and the spoils usually go to whoever is pushiest.
And these days, the gays are pushing harder than a steroidal muscle fag mounting a bony twink from behind.
From the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s up to the ceaseless modern minoritarian onslaughts against the unwilling, the principle of “freedom of association” has been fairly stomped to death. Freedom of association involves the consent of both parties, because forcing someone to schmooze with someone with whom they have zero desire to engage is not freedom”it’s coercion.
The US Constitution makes no explicit mention of “freedom of association,” although the First Amendment mentions “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”
But what about the right to avoid people? For a misanthrope such as myself, that should be the crown jewel of human rights, the one that supersedes and undermines all others. If society refuses to acknowledge a fundamental right to be left alone, we are headed pell-mell into a Dictatorship of the Pushy.
