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by yummyfajitas 3365 days ago
So if a restaurant served people of both races but gave them all a bill, you'd be similarly opposed? Or if blacks broke the law to draw attention to discrimination in employment or occupational licensing? After all, someone (a corporation in the restaurant case) is making money off it so it's just breaking the law.

Or if Catholics in Northern Ireland were protesting to stop discrimination against them in employment, same thing? (Springs to mind since I just visited Derry a few days ago.) Due to the involvement of money it's just breaking the law?

Similarly, Isis Brantley fought for 20 years for the right to braid hair. I suppose you oppose her actions too? http://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/news/a41742/isis-br...

That's a new argument which I don't agree with, but I suppose the implications aren't quite as bad as those of Markoff's argument. You aren't condemning all civil rights activists, just the ones who fight for an equal right to make money.

Or perhaps you are just making a post-hoc rationalization for a less justifiable position.