His win is a direct result of the Supreme Court’s decision in a pivotal LGBTQ+ rights case.

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    1 year ago

    Why is society obligated to allow a discriminatory business like this to exist?

    Why do we just take as a given that anyone is allowed to start a business?

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      1 year ago

      No one said otherwise, just pointing out why Walmart can’t deny your right to buy a redbull but I have no obligation to fix a computer with a Nazi flag stickers on it.

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        1 year ago

        But our existence is not some kind of political opinion. If a wedding photographer won’t take jobs from interracial couples because he thinks that they sully the white race or some shit it is not really different from the stuff this guy did. And my example would hopefully fall under any anti-discrimnation laws.

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          1 year ago

          Honest question, In your mind, should I be legally compelled to work on systems operated by people openly racist towards me?

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            1 year ago

            What exactly do you mean with “systems”?

            I would say no to that because there is a big difference between refusing to work for someone that holds a discriminatory ideology and refusing to work for someone that is some category of human they hate especially if they can’t actually do something about being in that category like with skin colour or being LGBTQ+.

            You can’t be tolerant of intolerance if you call yourself tolerant.

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              What exactly do you mean with “systems”?

              Are you paying attention? In the first comment of his you replied to, he said: “but I have no obligation to fix a computer with a Nazi flag stickers on it.”

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              1 year ago

              That right to refuse work based on your personal ideology has to cut both ways, otherwise those in power get to decide what is a ‘just’ reason for refusal of services and what is an ‘unjust’ reason. If the right group of racists were in power, then I could be legally compelled to perform services for those who are openly hostile towards me, which you yourself seem to intimate would be ‘unjust’

              In the same way that I can choose not to take a job at Nestle because of how they treat our freshwater supply, I can also choose not to work on Jimbobs computer because he doesn’t believe the Holocaust happened.

              Also ‘systems’ was just a placeholder to clarify I wasn’t selling commodites, sorry for any confusion there.