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im not following the analogy. What is a black mortgage?
by gmadsen 5y ago
im not following the analogy. What is a black mortgage?
- Retric 5y agoA mortgage to a black person. The point is you can’t reject something that’s a proxy for a protected class. For example only staffing your call center with blonds.
- nonameiguess 5y agoIt's probably obvious, but you can do this when you have a legitimate business reason for it. Hooter's is within its rights to hire only women with a DD+. More germanely, a casting director can put out a call for actors only of a specific race.
- Retric 5y agoYep, which is why I said call center. If the customers can’t see the staff then it’s hard to argue blond hair is anything but a proxy.
- gmadsen 5y agothats different than the cake though. If the bakery would sell a non designed cake to a gay couple, or if they refused a straight couple to make a gay cake, that is different than your example. To be clear, I'm not sticking up for the bakery, it just doesn't seem like a clear proxy like you are saying
- Retric 5y agoOnly the context was discussed not the details. In other words they could have been trying to order a cake saying “Happy Birthday“ to be used in a wedding for some in joke and the baker wouldn’t have known. And in context a strait couple can’t have a gay wedding, the difference is inherently gender dependent thus making it a proxy. [edited for clarity]
- whiddershins 5y agoA straight couple could purchase a cake for a gay wedding. And the baker wouldn’t have sold it to them. Therefore the baker is not discriminating against gay people. The baker won’t sell cakes for gay weddings to anyone, regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.