Found myself agreeing with a lot of your posts lately - scary. But then you went off on this random, gratuitous anti-PC rant and I feel much better since I can dismiss all that.

I saw a few ads for AA providers over the last couple of weeks that said "Only AA clients," which was new to me. Surprised me, but I can see where it could be a reasonable marketing approach.

As for what is and is not racism, that is usually impossible to know based solely on reading someone's ads. You have to figure out why they make the choice, not just that they choose not to see certain people. What you can say for sure is that it is, by definition, discriminatory. That is both completely natural (we all prefer to do business with people we are comfortable doing business with), and something that is discouraged in all sorts of ways in America today, none of which are about being PC.

I did have a great conversation with a particularly fierce provider a couple of years ago about old white guys raging about reverse discrimination and her reply was perfect - "So you have a lot of old white guys complaining now because they used to get their way 99.9% of the time, and now it is down to 95% of the time. Tough shit." One can argue the percentages, but her point is correct - it is still a white guy's world.

Reverse racism does not exist and reverse discrimination is all about whining. PC is just a term used to dismiss a position without actually responding to any of it. GG, you are a nasty, cranky bastard a lot of the time, and when you are called that it is not at all about being PC. I aspire to be as cranky. Unfortunately I think we still agree on most of that.

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