Mama's House

In the old days, Harvard would have laughed if some Catholic or evangelical mother urged “girls-only” campus workouts in the name of modesty. Today, Harvard happily implements Sharia swim times in the name of Mohammed.

At Harvard, that’s called progress.

Well put. And thus "progress" comes full circle. In Minneapolis last year, the airport licensing authority, faced with a mainly Muslim crew of cab drivers refusing to carry the blind, persons with six-packs of Bud, slatternly women, etc, proposed instituting two types of taxis with differently colored lights, one of which would indicate the driver was prepared to carry members of identity groups that offend Islam. Forty years ago, advocating separate drinking fountains made you a racist. Today, advocating separate taxi cabs or separate swimming sessions makes you a multiculturalist.

I wonder how that would work out in Minneapolis though. It seems to me that taxis marked as non-discriminatory would do much better business than those taxis marked otherwise. If that would be the case, I then wonder whether those discriminating Muslim taxi drivers would put their religious biases aside for the almighty dollar. I think in the end it would be a wonderful example of capitalism beating back irrational discrimination.