Mixed race partnerships?
I knew this would be the next question. I would not call this discrimination. I also would not call a law prohibiting business partnerships between close family members discriminatory.
Well I appreciate you keeping with a logically consistent point and also confirming you have no idea what discrimination means lmao.
What do you think discrimination means?
It's quite possible that I just have a much narrower definition than you do. I'm also not limited by what courts may have previously ruled in forming my personal opinions.
I’m actually curious what your definition is, cause you appear to be stuck in the “separate but equal” zone where there’s no discrimination so long as some form of bathroom/water fountain is available to each race.
To advance the ball here, my definition of discrimination (for purposes of this discussion) is any limit placed on someone’s full enjoyment of a right or privilege based on an immutable characteristic.
So for example in the case of mixed race businesses, I find it laughable that someone who does not strike me as a complete idiot comes in here with a straight face saying it would not be discriminatory to prohibit a black (or female) person from going into business with Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, or any number of other billionaires in the US who are overwhelmingly white males.
It would also prevent a white person from going into business with Robert F. Smith, Oprah Winfrey or Michael Jordan. The last 14 words of your post are immaterial to me.
My definition of discrimination is if somebody else is allowed to do the behavior specified in the policy. If there was a law that said white people may not go into business with other races, that would be discriminatory.
Like I mentioned earlier, if I was a Supreme Court justice, I may very well find a law prohibiting mixed race business partnerships unconstitutional, but I would do so on First Amendment grounds rather than discrimination or Equal Protection Clause grounds.