Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Fortunately, I haven’t witnessed things like you describe. If I did, I’d like to think I would speak up against the behavior, take my business elsewhere, and encourage everyone else to do the same. That, at least where I live, would pretty much mean the end of the store in question; with no customers, they’d…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Ha ha…I love that retooling of the word. LikeLike

In reply to butimbeautiful. I am retired, too, but in the rather different sense of being recurrently tired… LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Ha ha yes… being retired I don’t have employers and it’s one of the joys of my life. LikeLike

Have you witnessed a black person being denied service in a business because of their race? Have you seen the face of that person, or her child, in that store? The harm may be minimal in that the person can still chose another store – but the dignity (which is actually the feeling of shame)…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I don’t own a car, so I travel to and from work every day by train. It seems self-evident to me that plenty of people do the same: I see them every day, twice a day. The proximity of urban centers, office parks, malls, and…