Why shouldn’t employers be allowed to “discriminate”, and hire whomever they are most comfortable hiring?
Question:
Noted black economist Walter Williams argues that discrimination should be allowed; that freedom of association necessarily involves being discriminating in one’s selection.
He points out that people practice careful discrimination in choosing friends and spouses…and that marriage has much more of an impact, economically, on racial groups (because people generally pick mates of their own race based on the same affinity that the government has outlawed in hiring) than any hiring or contracting process.
If you choose to marry person A instead of person B, person B may experience loss while person A enjoys advantages.
The point being, that if the government continues its trend/efforts to eliminate “discrimination”–that is, free choice–in all aspects of society with EEOC lawyers and affirmative action and so on, then soon it will be forcing people to marry someone outside their race in order to promote “equal opportunity” and quotas, etc.
Williams is careful to point out that it is in fact marriage which impacts the economic status of blacks far more than any employment situation, as it is matrimony which ensures that whites sustain wealth within their cultural milieu.
Williams does not see this as wrong–he is a conservative, and recognizes that the government’s role should not be to interfere in freedom of association, nor to attempt to force/guarantee equality of outcomes for those who possess and/or lack certain characteristics.
Answer:
Personal relationships are nothing like employment relationships. There is no “equal opportunity” in a personal relationship. Discrimination in the workplace prevents a person from making a living. Discrimination in personal relationships prevents one from getting laid. Big difference. Williams is a moron for attempting to equate an apple to an orange. And yes, I would expect that coming from a conservative.
