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I don't know why you bring that up again, especially since you use it in an odd way. Putting signs saying "whites only" outside of businesses and such is prohibited by anti-discrimination laws. That has nothing to do with freedom of association. Freedom of association is the right of people to form groups that they want to.

The only mention of anti-discrimination being conflated with freedom of association in the Wikipedia article seems to be in relation to the US. For most people it's expressed as a positive right to prevent situations such as during apartheid South Africa where blacks were forbidden to be in groups larger than about five people or something like that and they were forbidden from many political groups and so on.

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~

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