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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: If ljf did not see it then it just does not exist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.195031.27694@netcom.com>
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- References: <727986478@lear.cs.duke.edu> <C1H7qu.7o0@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1993Jan27.034358.7332@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:50:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.034358.7332@leland.Stanford.EDU> farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
- >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.
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- Or they do not care one way or the other.
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- >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?
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- What about those who lose jobs because of AA, or do not get them because
- of AA? Institutionalized discrimination is the -law-. What is the cost
- to society of AA?
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- >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?
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- What is to prevent a business from hiring only lesbigays? Why do I suspect
- that they would not be labeled sexist/whatever, and noone would be asking
- about the cost to society?
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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