(Crumpet served from Dana Loesch)
It's a bastion of bar culture: "Ladies' Night," staged to attract female customers by cutting their drink prices and cover charges.
It's also illegal gender discrimination, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
The department charged this week that by having ladies' nights, five Twin Cities establishments denied men the right to "full and equal enjoyment" of their businesses.
"Gender-based pricing violates the [state] Human Rights Act," Commissioner James Kirkpatrick said in a statement. But even though this marks at least the second time in 16 years that the department has cracked down on the practice, it apparently has continued because bar owners aren't sure it's illegal, and enforcement clearly has been spotty.
Oops.. no more free booze for the ladies! How are the geeks supposed to get lucky now?
Seriously though, when was it the right of a state govt to demand what businesses charge for their services?
You could argue "hey, if that was the case, someone could give a "whites only" discount..."
Yes, they could.. but they'd go out of business real quick. The general public outrage would bring it to a conclusion real quick.
It's not up to a government to set the prices/promotions for private industries (just ask Richard Nixon how well that "price-fixing" route worked for him...)
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