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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Re: Libertarians and ERA
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Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 09:57:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 20 09:57:00 1985
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>/* mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) /  2:45 pm  Apr 19, 1985 */

>> Discrimination in a free market costs money (see Thomas 
>> Sowell, "Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality").

>On the contrary.  Discrimination can be extremely profitable.  Consider (for
>example) a deep south restaurant 30 or more years ago that serves only white
>customers.  If they started accepting black customers, their bigoted white
>customers would desert in droves and go to other all-white restaurants.
>If all the restaurants are coerced at once into changing policy the vicious
>cycle will be broken.
>-- 
>
>Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh

Wrong!  If the proprietor is discriminating against blacks only because
the majority of his customers desire that he does so, then these
customers incur a cost, i.e., they are limiting the number of 
restaurants that they can eat in.