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I don’t understand how this connects to racism.

Swap block for disabled if it helps. The point is if it’s illegal to charge more for some group, it’s also illegal to give people discounts because they are not in that group.

Aka, Charging X more is equivalent to giving everyone !X a discount while excluding X from the standard discount.

You can give benefits to the disabled. You cannot simply switch disabled with whites and say that because a transmutation of the practice is racist, so is the practice. The original proposal was for corporations, who are not capable of being discriminated against.

Expect, Non-disabled is not a protected class so you can directly give the disabled discounts much like how you can give seniors discounts.

And again, discrimination is not the point, the point was discounts is not a way to get around charging X more. If a state can’t charge a fine for doing X the also can’t give a discount for not doing X.

As long as they aren't a protected class you can do this just fine. If I want to charge football fans twice the price but charge soccer fans half the price, I'm allowed to do that.

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