Bigot Discrimination and Free Societies

Apparently James Carville, the angular Democrat strategist believes this comment from New York Giants' Mathias Kiwanuka is "eloquent."

"All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in [President] Obama's America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting 'right on,'" Kiwanuka said, per the New York Daily News. "I mean, I don't want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play.

"I am not going to draw a conclusion from a person off of one comment, but when it is time after time after time and there's a consistent pattern of disrespect and just a complete misunderstanding of an entire culture that I am a part of, I can't respect him as a man," Kiwanuka added.

And it is a solid opinion. I think it is pertinent to point out that Kiwanuka's position does not ask that Rush be obstructed from buying the team based on his opinion of the man. He doesn't like him. He doesn't have to like him, and since he doesn't like him, he does not have to play for him. In this market transaction, Kiwanuka is the seller (selling his labor) and Rush would be the buyer. And like you see in many placards on small businesses across the country, he "reserves the right to refuse service to anyone." And for any reason.

But not all reasons are equal, neither are all market transactions. In the labor market, because one is having to sell their time and skill it is prudent to be discretionary as to whom you sell your time and skill to. In a goods or property market, the amount of discretion the seller uses ought to be placed under more scrutiny. In fact it is unlawful for a seller of a good, say a automobile, to refuse to sell the auto based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. It is unlawful discrimination.

However even if the discrimination of a seller to a buyer is lawful, it may not be moral. Suppose that the automobile seller refuses to sell an auto to a buyer because of who the buyer supports in a political election. I do not believe such discrimination is unlawful, but it is immoral discrimination. Immoral based on the value systems of a free society wherein ALL political ideologies are welcome (even the offensive ones) and are able to take part in basic market transactions for goods and property.

Once a society permits (on moral grounds, as opposed to legal grounds) the discrimination of factions by other factions in basic market transactions of goods and property, then the society becomes less free--plain and simple.

I believe Mr. Kiwanuka knows this on some level, which is why he stopped short of verbally stating that Rush be refused the privilege of buying the Rams despite his lack of respect for him.