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[DGuller]

Question for US lawyer types-- Does a business face potential legal trouble if they advertise and charge different prices for customers based upon race?

Reason I ask is that a local business I like and support is offering free meals for African-Americans tomorrow. I'm sure their heart is in the right place, but the practice of charging differently based on race does not seem legal to me.

I know some places have experimented with asking white customers to pay more, but this is different.

Russian Trolls are really getting desperate these days

This is how you turn meaningful phrases into empty insults.  Russian trolls do exist, and they're doing considerable damage to online discourse.  Misusing this term in this way is not only wrong on its own merits, but it also turns actual destructive actions by an intelligence agency of a hostile foreign power into memes that you use when you want to shut down a discussion.

[Josquius]

Question for US lawyer types-- Does a business face potential legal trouble if they advertise and charge different prices for customers based upon race?

Reason I ask is that a local business I like and support is offering free meals for African-Americans tomorrow. I'm sure their heart is in the right place, but the practice of charging differently based on race does not seem legal to me.

I know some places have experimented with asking white customers to pay more, but this is different.

I guess some kind of exception is in place for special events?
Though yeah. Sounds like someone could stir shit there.

[derspiess]

Question for US lawyer types-- Does a business face potential legal trouble if they advertise and charge different prices for customers based upon race?

Reason I ask is that a local business I like and support is offering free meals for African-Americans tomorrow. I'm sure their heart is in the right place, but the practice of charging differently based on race does not seem legal to me.

I know some places have experimented with asking white customers to pay more, but this is different.

Russian Trolls are really getting desperate these days

[merithyn]

Question for US lawyer types-- Does a business face potential legal trouble if they advertise and charge different prices for customers based upon race?

Reason I ask is that a local business I like and support is offering free meals for African-Americans tomorrow. I'm sure their heart is in the right place, but the practice of charging differently based on race does not seem legal to me.

I know some places have experimented with asking white customers to pay more, but this is different.

I guess some kind of exception is in place for special events?
Though yeah. Sounds like someone could stir shit there.

Don't worry. Someone will.

[Barrister]

Question for US lawyer types-- Does a business face potential legal trouble if they advertise and charge different prices for customers based upon race?

Reason I ask is that a local business I like and support is offering free meals for African-Americans tomorrow. I'm sure their heart is in the right place, but the practice of charging differently based on race does not seem legal to me.

I know some places have experimented with asking white customers to pay more, but this is different.

Potential?  Sure.  It's going to depend on your specific state and municipality laws.

That being said - how do they tell if someone is black or not?  If you walked up, said you were black, would they still give you a free meal?  If so, maybe not a problem.

And all of that being said, it's only a problem if someone complains about it.

[Valmy]

I mean they have things like Lady's Night at places right?

[Barrister]

I mean they have things like Lady's Night at places right?

And from time to time men complain about them.

At the risk of taking Wikipedia as an authority, supposedly they've been upheld in some states, and found to be discriminatory in others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%27_night

[mongers]

Over the last few months a feral cat has made the garden it's domain, it's now pretty much at home, tomorrow I'm having to fit a cat flap to one of the doors.

[FunkMonk]

Very cute 

[merithyn]

Beautiful kitty!

[The Brain]

Aw.

[celedhring]

So, a local illustrator of children's books has shown her support for the protests against police brutality in the US. The woman was already old when I was a kid, and she's a bit out of touch with current times, so her contribution is a bit... unfortunate 

[The Brain]

Which is the support part?

[Tamas]

The SS insignia is an especially nice touch.

[Syt]

Yo, cel, Paradox is opening a studio in Barcelona. Johan will lead the studio, and apparently they'll focus on EU4, with more to follow.