The issue is the programming people have recieved to make a person believe that having an in group preference, something that is completely natural, is worth shunning and refusing to do business with someone.
Fair point. My argument is that the term "racist" is a weponized word that is used to make people feel ashamed for completely natural feelings.
Don't associate with someone because they are boring, hateful, bitter, degenerate, a liar. But "racist" is a very low bar for exclusion. It is like saying I don't associate with people who don't like peanuts. It is for the most part irrelevant.
No.
But if you are racists then it is every private person's right to shun you and to refuse business with you.
You really don't understand what the First Amendment says, do you?
The issue is the programming people have recieved to make a person believe that having an in group preference, something that is completely natural, is worth shunning and refusing to do business with someone.
Racists are not in my group so my "in-group preference" does not include racists.
So why should I not exclude them from my group?
What now?
Fair point. My argument is that the term "racist" is a weponized word that is used to make people feel ashamed for completely natural feelings.
Don't associate with someone because they are boring, hateful, bitter, degenerate, a liar. But "racist" is a very low bar for exclusion. It is like saying I don't associate with people who don't like peanuts. It is for the most part irrelevant.