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- Subject: Re: If ljf did not see it then it just does not exist
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:43:58 GMT
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- In article <C1H7qu.7o0@ccu.umanitoba.ca> kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) writes:
- >I thought someone recently won a Nobel Prize for proving this point. (That
- >discrimination does cost.)
-
- I'd be interested in hearing more about this. You have any more info?
-
- Once again, I don't see where discrimination necessarily costs. Take
- Cracker Barrel, a restaurant chain in the Southeast. It received
- nation-wide media attention when it fired competent employees simply
- because they were lesbian, gay, or bisexual. It seemed to have no
- problem in replacing the fired employees. For every person who
- refuses to eat there because of its anti-lesbigay policy, there appear
- to be two people who are glad of it.
-
- Where does the actual cost come in? Are we talking about the cost to
- society when competent employees lose jobs, the abuse of justice when
- people are fired for bigoted reasons? Or the actual cost to the
- business that does the discrimination?
-
- What is Cracker Barrel's loss? If it loses no business (for every
- person who boycotts it because of its policy, two more are happy with
- the policy) and it can replace every fired lesbigay employee with an
- equally competent non-lesbigay employee? There's probably some loss
- in time and performance in replacing the fired employees, but if
- Cracker Barrel screens applicants from the start, then even that loss
- can be avoided. So, what is to prevent a business from doing exactly
- what Cracker Barrel has done?
-