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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Yeah, I guess it is. You are defending discrimination and the other posters are saying discrimination is a bad thing.
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Oh geez. You know, private industry discriminates all the time for a wide range of reasons. I really don't see how this is any different. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it's unreasonable. But companies are free to be as stupid and unreasonable as they want.
I'll give you an example. I want to get the space below the room over my garage spray foamed. I phone every place in town. They all told me to take a hike. Why? Because the job was too small for them. None of them will take a job below $1500. I got discriminated against.
How about the Calgary Petroleum Club? They didn't allow women to join for decades, and I didn't see anyone here outraged over it.
I invest in the Chou RRSP fund. They require a minimum investment of $15K. What about all those poor little investors that want to invest in it? They're discriminated against.
Yeah, you can throw the "but it's religion!" into the mix. Big deal. I see secular forms of discrimination all the time. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it's unreasonable. And I'll say it again, companies are free to be as stupid and unreasonable as they want.
I'm going to ask a question here: If those cabbies weren't Muslim, and they wanted to refuse customers that had alcohol on them because of some other reason (pick one), would you still be saying the same things you are now?