• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Except it was effectively true, because banks were allowed to consider marital status as a risk factor. That was made illegal in 1974. It’s in your own article.

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        1 year ago

        I’m going need a 90 minute documentary and a giant bowl of popcorn to absorb all this

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        1 year ago

        Are you going to give someone a checkbook without checking their credit? A checkbook was ye old credit card, and a checking account was how you got it.

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      1 year ago

      Except it was effectively true,

      Only in the same way it was true that men couldn’t vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn’t have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.