Disgusting Discrimination at a Wedding! Don't Do This at Your Wedding!

A while back I posted an article that the PC crowd took offense to and that had to do with discrimination. Please refer to: Gaijin Gourmet: Need a Drink & Yakitori in Shibuya? I Got a Fantastic Place! I said that people are free to discriminate any way they please on their own private property - a restaurant, bar, store, etc... are all private property by the way. (If you don't believe me, consult the law - there's a big difference between "public property" like a government office and "private property" like your home and a place of business)... What I mean is that, if my mom and dad own a restaurant, they have the right to refuse service to anyone they please; after all it is their place!

Some people seem to have difficultly grasping this concept of public versus private property. They think that if a restaurant is open to the public, that means it is public property. No. It isn't. It is private property and the owners or management have a right to refuse service to anyone they choose...

The dimwitted ones who want to force the law to open up places where they are not welcomed are the ones who truly need to have their heads examined, why would they want to go into some place where they aren't wanted anyway? That's nuts!

Imagine if there were a militant motorcycle bondage gang club that was "No Females or Heterosexuals Allowed" and the dress code required black leather jackets and pink hot pants. Would I insist that they allow me entry? (I only own polka-dot hot pants) No, I wouldn't. Why would I even want to go in there? It's their private property. I should leave them alone to do as they wish ON THEIR PROPERTY and I'll go to another establishment where I am welcomed, thank you!

In the case in Japan, the restaurant had a sign that said, "No troublesome foreigners allowed." This is quite different than "No foreigners allowed!" I think it is obvious that what these English "challenged" folks (Gotta be PC, ya know!) wanted to write was, "Foreigners who come in here and fight will be kicked out!" (They don't need to write a sign like this in Japanese for the Japanese because for one, Japanese rarely fight in public and two; this is Japan so the staff will not have a problem saying in Japanese laguage to a Japanese person, "If you don't leave, we're calling the police!" The waiter and busboy and girl staff most probably don't have the grasp of English language - or any other language besides their own - to tell non-Japanese speaking people to leave; that's why they work at minimum wage in a restaurant; they are not highly educated! 

Even so, some very confused foreigners took offense to this nonsense and were insulted... 

Instead of being insulted, they should use their brains more and understand that their PC correct "anti-discrimination" (lack of) logic is so completely subjective as to make no sense whatsoever.

You can read more about it here in: I Discriminate: I help the handicapped, I am kind to old people and give my seat to them and to pregnant women. 

Today's short post is from my good friend Aaron Egon Moser. It is about a wedding he went to and how he was shocked at the discrimination shown (Aaron is Jewish) to some others.

Enjoy!

Disgusting Discrimination at a Wedding by Aaron Egon Moser

I was invited to a wedding a while back and was appalled at how discriminatory the bride was. If I knew then what I know now, I may not have attended. 

For instance, I had no idea that when she was searching for a mate with whom to procreate, the most basic of all human functions, she eliminated all women from contention. More than half the people in the world had no chance of marrying her. Outrageous. 

Then I heard that of the group that was eligible, she discriminated against homosexual men. 

And then, to my horror, she struck off every, single man who wasn't Jewish. 

And if that was not enough, men under 5'7" were summarily dismissed as well as guys who weren't gainfully employed. 

Males who lived outside of a 25-mile radius of her present home? Gone. 

Smokers? Fuggetaboudit. 

At the end of the day, only one person was left standing out of the billions that also needed a mate. How's that for discrimination, huh?

There ought to be a law against this sort of blatant discrimination

Incredible! I'm sorry that you had to suffer through such an experience, Aaron. Perhaps if you seek some counseling, you'll be able to overcome the trauma of this event.

Thanks for letting us know about this. I'll write to my congressman, er person, and let him/her/them/it know.

God bless. I will pray for you (in a secular fashion, of course).

All Humans Practice Discrimination All The Time and So Do You!

The article with the humorous sign that said, "Trouble some foreigners not welcomed" sure brought a litany of confused and not-so-confused responses from people all over the world. Thanks!


The idea, though, that this sign was proof of racial discrimination is absurd. It is proof of nothing short of a poor command of English. If you want me to show you discrimination in Japan, I can do that with signs that do say explicitly, "No foreigners."


Those would be some gambling and prostitution establishments in some of the, how shall I say? "More interesting" parts of downtown Tokyo, where many Yakuza gangsters seem to be.  


Nevertheless, that the discrimination issue came up and people's faux enlightened posing about this issue causes me to comment.


You, dear reader, discriminate against people and groups of people all the time. Yes, you do. So do I. Everyone does. Discrimination is an integral feature of human activity.


When you pick a girlfriend or boyfriend, do you like a fat one, skinny one, or a shapely one?


Whichever you choose, that's a form of discrimination.


When you choose a company to work for, do you choose "Any company is fine!" Or would working for the government or mafia or a KKK organization matter to you?


Whichever you choose, that's a form of discrimination. It's also your right!


When hetero-sexual males choose a woman for partner or bed mate, they exercise discrimination: The act of choosing.


That goes for hetero-sexual women too. Gays and Lesbians too! Heavens! People choosing by use of discrimination.


The only ones that do not practice sex discrimination in the area of sexual relations are bi-sexuals, I suppose. So if you are not bi-sexual, I guess you are guilty of discrimination by sex and probably race, no?


The most obvious example of blatant discrimination is when we choose a mate for marriage. Anyone who claims that they do not exercise sex and race discrimination in this area are either fooling themselves or they haven't ever thought the ramifications of what this term means.


I was happily surprised today, though, that one of my favorite writers and fellow columnist at Lew Rockwell, Walter Williams (a black man! Heavens!) coincidentally wrote about this subject in Difficult Economic Lessons:

How about the statement that people should not engage in race or sex discrimination? Whatever the emotional worth of such a statement, it's a value judgment, with no facts or evidence to back it up, plus interpreted literally, it's nonsense. Think about it. Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Whenever we choose, we discriminate. When we choose one person for a mate, we discriminate most of the time by race and sex. Would we want a society in which there are penalties for such discrimination?

The utter notion that discrimination is ugly and should be rejected at all levels is merely nonsensical PC posturing. 

The fact of the matter is that all people discriminate all the time. To think otherwise is wrong.

The sign at the Japanese restaurant was not an example of discrimination at all. Like I said, it is merely an example of poor English.

Nevertheless, it is a tenant of Libertarian thought and principle that private property is private property and the owner of such is welcomed to discriminate as they see fit. If you ran an establishment and foreigners accounted for, say, $100 a month in sales, yet $1000 a month in damages, you'd probably restrict them from YOUR property after a few months like that... 


In that case, it is purely an act of private property rights and (survival) economics.  

People need to get an education and learn the difference between private and public property.


They also should get a basic education in cost and cost vs. effectiveness.

Read more in "The Case For Discrimination" by Walter Block