Posted on 05/05/2016 11:19:38 AM PDT by Mears
Race – Civil Rights Act of 1964 Color – Civil Rights Act of 1964 Religion – Civil Rights Act of 1964 National origin – Civil Rights Act of 1964 Age (40 and over) – Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 Sex – Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Civil Rights Act of 1964 Pregnancy – Pregnancy Discrimination Act Citizenship – Immigration Reform and Control Act Familial status – Civil Rights Act of 1968 Title VIII: Housing cannot discriminate for having children, with an exception for senior housing Disability status – Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Veteran status – Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act Genetic information – Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
The USA prospered quite well without them
This was invented to divide the country into many warring groups, by giving special privileges to some people because they had some characteristics in common with other people. It was done to create solid voting and donation blocks.
It is illegal, unconstitutional, and wrong - no matter how long it has lasted, and no matter what laws are passed to permit it.
I wish that government employees were not a favored or protected class.
It’s becoming like the old USSR.
Think about it: Surveys have shown that Government employees on average work less hard, work fewer hours, are paid substantially more than equivalent private sector workers, and are almost impossible to fire.
Apparatchiks.
We should all be protected as “American Citizens”, and we should all have the same rights. My next door neighbor should not have any more rights than me, and vice versa!
The status quo sounds like government trying to enforce morality, which is what churches should be preaching instead. And I caught what you said on the discussion about the tow truck operator. We should be able to say shame on... whoever, without having to say this is equivalent to having a cause in civil court to sue... whoever.
Also, it inserted government into an aspect of private morality business where it didn’t belong.
Rules like this ought to be OK for GOVERNMENT SERVICES. Nobody should be rejected from a courthouse, etc. because of being a woman, black, Jewish, etc.
I’ll see you and raise you to Trump eliminating 80% of government.
My wife’s over 40 and got fired last year for cheaper younger meat.
She’s temping at a great salary but if that runs out and we get ####ed, well everybody gets ####ed at least a few times in their life.
That’s why it’s life.
Legalize ecstasy and all will be forgiven.
lol
Agreed. The so called Civil Rights thinking has resulted in outright discrimination against whites, the elevation of incompetents to positions of authority; the ruination of our schools, our economy, our political institutions etc. It is time to repeal such legislation.
So what’s the method you prefer Trump to accomplish your vision? Pen and a phone?
How about electing something other than a feckless politician to the place where all those laws originated?
BTW - there are multiple Republicans around here that are more than happy to beat the Dems over the head with the fact that it required R-votes in the Senate to overcome the Dixiecrats who opposed the 1964 CRA. If it was so great in 1964, what’s changed? This has evolved to be a larger “third rail” than Social Security, even being cited today by the Justice Department in their letter to the NC governor.
I remember hearing about this, but I don't think I ever got anything out of it. I once inquired about it to our company's HR drone, I think it was just something simple like "Hey, what does the company do for veterans?"
She thought about it for a moment, and she told me "Well, if a new hire informs us that he is a veteran, we put their name on a list."
"Well" I asked, "what happens then?"
"Nothing," she said. "We just keep the list in case the government tells us we have to report on it or something..."
Agreed. The so called Civil Rights thinking has resulted in outright discrimination against whites, the elevation of incompetents to positions of authority; the ruination of our schools, our economy, our political institutions etc. It is time to repeal such legislation.
Yes, IMHO the constitution needs to be changed. However the current congress would overturn Second Amendment of Gun rights.
If you are talking about re-legalizing discrimination on the basis of race in housing, accommodations, and voting, the country is not going to go back in time over 50 years. And also the president cannot just eliminate existing laws without the help of Congress or the Supreme Court.
Thanks for that list of acts Mears.
With the exception of veterans-related acts, such acts arguably justifiable under the Constitution’s Clause 12, and related clauses, of Section 8 of Article I, the states have never amended the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to legislatively address most of the vote-winning “civil rights” acts listed in the OP imo.
That's the irony... the contradiction and the degeneration of our Constitution.
The original Constitution and the Bill of Rights is paramount and untouchable by executive orders or riders attached to budget bills...
It just takes honest and competent elected legislatures to maintain and protect the hard-fought original intent.
I hope Mr. Trump eliminates the departments of Education, Energy, and HUD - on his first day in office. Others to be evaluated based on value added.
bfl
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