There is no 'supremacy' in the Civil Rights Act. Serve customers of all races/ethnicity in your restaurant, or serve no one in your restaurant. - Sunnyjim's claim.
I'd say you are not being logical and consistent and possibly willfully ignorant. Yes there IS a supremacy theme to this.
The supremacy doesn't reside with the individual person though, where it should
We get it, Rob Roy. You think supremacy should reside with the individual, specifically white supremacy over blacks.
Please show me where I have not been logical, consistent, or cite an example of my willful ignorance.
it resides with the entity threatening offensive force, not to mention it reveals your duplicity and blindness to force when applied by government, which is really just a collection of individual people, none of whom have any greater rights than those they oppress. Here let me show you...
Please show me where I have been duplicitous using my own quotes. You are drawing a false equivalence between my words and your ideology. I have stated many times that government does hold certain rights over individual citizens, and rightly so, or we'd be reverting back to times of vigilante justice; primitive and uncivilized.
If all people are to have equal rights (they should) that would mean each individual person has self determination. Which obviously means control over their own body and their own property, but not the body and property of others. How else would "equal rights" be observed if this were not true? (Rhetorical question, which you would have avoided answering anyway) It is true. If another person or other people determine the use of your body and your property AGAINST YOUR WILL, and you had been maintaining a neutral status, it can only mean you either DON'T have the right to control your own body etc. or somebody else does. If somebody else does, then they are claiming to have MORE RIGHTS THAN YOU DO.
More rights for some over less rights for others does not equal, "equal rights". It is impossible.
Another glaring false equivalence. Equal rights does not entitle the individual to 'self-determine' without qualification. As such, this paragraph is one big moot point. Many counter-examples have been provided to you on other threads highlighting this logical fallacy you keep regurgitating. Repeating it umpteen times won't bring any truth to it. Who arbitrates the madness when two [or more] individuals' rights to self-determine collide? Elected officials, not either individual in conflict with the other.
So, what is REALLY happening is EQUAL OPPRESSION AND EQUAL DENIAL of self determination of the individual by other people claiming the right to deny an individual the right of self determination.
On this we can agree, although I wouldn't label making it a federally legal requirement for whites to serve blacks in restaurants (and vise versa) as 'equal oppression'. Your choice of words is extremely telling, it must be said. It would be beneficial to all if you would see it as a black customer's equal right to be served by anyone, rather than the racist white waiter being oppressed from showing his racism and denying the black person service. Racism and bigotry must be 'equally oppressed'.
Very similar to so called equal marriage rights for gay people. Of course gay people should be able to decide with whom they will associate, but a gay person doesn't gain anything when they are also made to seek permission from government to marry. All they gain is the same level of oppression of everyone else. Government has no business making people ask for permission to marry and to pay for a marriage license whether they are gay or straight. It's none of their business, it's the business of the people involved in the marriage, not mine, not yours, not anyone elses.
Again, we get it. All laws are oppressive to the belief in your right to unequivocal self-determination. We also understand your belief in the right of a pedophile to groom, manipulate, and ultimately convince a child to engage in sexual activity with him (or marry him) without the 'threat' of 'governmental oppression'.
Clearly when force or the threat of force is applied to a neutral person who is not applying offensive force to another person or another persons property the entity employing the offensive force is in the act of DENYING a right. If that were not true, you would be saying that individual people do NOT own their own body and their property, which is consistent with the belief of a prohibitionist.
So, why are you opposed to equal rights?
Come on, Rob Roy. You have to employ a new tactic. Your responses are littered with tired false equivalences. I have repeatedly stated that the individual should not have total freedom to operate as they choose, because total individual freedom can come at the expense of others. The rules of 'individual freedom' should be equal to all, regardless of race, origin, gender, etc.
Believing that certain behavior should be prohibited for the benefit/safety of another (or others) is consistent with prohibitionism? Only if you lack the capacity to understand prohibitionist political ideology. I am completely supportive of equal rights.