"I uphold the right for any business to decide for themselves who they will or will not conduct business with. In the long run I firmly believe an unfettered free market would sort out who is on the right side or the wrong side of history. ... It even means a restaurant should be able to refuse to seat (pick one): black people, white people, males, redheads, left-handed people or introverts. Whatever. They probably won’t stay in business very long, it’s a form of corporate Darwinism. ... But as a man in an interracial marriage with a mixed-race child, being asked to risk our business and our customers, to put our asses on the line for a bunch of white supremacists?"
Bollocks. I agree with the right of his company to refuse to host a neonazi/hate speech mongering site. However, it wasn't the "unfettered free market" that resulted in civil rights laws being implemented, it was long drawn out resistance (with great costs especially to minorities' lives) and eventual government intervention that changed the status quo in the US and to suggest otherwise is asinine.
His reasoning also falsely suggests that he'd be fine with repeated psychological harm at minimum to his family if they were to face multiple blatantly racist encounters like being insulted/threatened/refused service anywhere because of who they are, since they'd be comforted with knowing the free market would eventually sort it out.
Bollocks. I agree with the right of his company to refuse to host a neonazi/hate speech mongering site. However, it wasn't the "unfettered free market" that resulted in civil rights laws being implemented, it was long drawn out resistance (with great costs especially to minorities' lives) and eventual government intervention that changed the status quo in the US and to suggest otherwise is asinine.
His reasoning also falsely suggests that he'd be fine with repeated psychological harm at minimum to his family if they were to face multiple blatantly racist encounters like being insulted/threatened/refused service anywhere because of who they are, since they'd be comforted with knowing the free market would eventually sort it out.