Imagine — just imagine — directing pandemic relief funds preferentially based on skin tone. In 2020. Unreal.
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The only real question here is how San Francisco intends to structure this to get around the fact that offering financial services on the basis of race is incredibly fucking illegal.https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1274058443809107969 …
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"All of us are equal..but some of us are more equal than others."
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I think the law draws a distinction between a person who is themselves a minority and a "person" which is in fact a corporation with 51% minority ownership.
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They probably like their odds in the 9th circuit.
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Language manipulation is everything. It never matters what the law actually is.
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The loan fund should be designed to benefit businesses solely in proportion to the hit they have taken, rather than by the race of their owners. That keeps it legal while providing equivalent results.
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Ah, but they aren't discriminating against applicants, they are eucriminating for applicants based on race. ("I'm not surcharging you; I just raised the prices and not giving you the discount I give everyone else.")
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They know that DOJ lawyers apply discrimination laws as a one-way street, even in the Trump administration. They will never have a case brought against them, just like every other one of these situations in the coming years.
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Right, we're talking strict scrutiny here.
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