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0 pointsumanwizard10y ago0 comments

What? This is exactly what I said. "race, color, religion, or national origin" is a short whitelist of protected classes, which "homeless" and "poor" are not on.

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thaumasiotes10y ago

"I don't think it's legal for stores to choose their customers". That was correct.

And US law, using the theory of disparate impact, treats discrimination on basically any category at all as discrimination by race. Barring entry by poor people would be prosecuted as anti-black discrimination seconds after a store tried to do it.

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