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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Libertarians and ERA
Message-ID: <498@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 16:05:43 EST
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.498
Posted: Tue Apr 23 16:05:43 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Apr-85 04:21:28 EST
References: <1340016@acf4.UUCP> <1340023@acf4.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Summary: 

In article <1340023@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
> 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.

Isn't it funny that during the first 100 years of freedom, these "costs"
were not sufficient to cause changes in the south?

If the costs to many are small, and the profits for few are plentiful,
then the highly motivated few usually can persuade the indifferent many
to maintain the status quo.

Ask a southerner 30 years ago if he cared that because of his bigotry
he wouldn't eat in a restaurant that would serve blacks.  Chances are
he'd laugh at you, because there were so few, or because the clientelle
was of a different class.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh