Do You Support the Civil Rights Act?

[JayTee]

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Because for any racist business that exists, a competitor can start a similar business minus the racism, and he would be more successful.

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Your conclusion that racist businesses will "die out" is false and doesn't follow from this. As long as there is a "significant" minority who would prefer, everything else being equal, a segregated business to a non segregated business, we can expect both the racist business and the non-racist business to both survive, as the racists will continue going to the first business. A business doesn't have to be "more succesful" than all of its competitors to survive, but simply has to make a profit, that is, get enough customers. In a town with 100 restaurants, 50 restaurants are "more successful" than each and everyone of the other 50, but that does not mean the other 50 dissapear.

In fact, we can assume that, given a decent sized minority of racists in an area, that people could and would successfully create segregated businesses that are otherwise similar to non-segregated businesses, as the racist customers currently going to the non-segregated business would decide to go to the segregated one instead, and filling this niche would be quite profitable in some cases.

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Why shouldn't people be allowed to patronize the types of businesses that they want.