Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples
Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples
Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings.
Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if it’s forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.
Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case “provides a clear roadmap” to throw out the NLRB’s complaint.
The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.
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Obviously, no business wants to be associated with BLM any more than they want to be associated with the KKK. Every company I've ever worked for has had dress codes that prohibited divisive political slogans and offensive language.
That’s quite the false equivalence you’ve made there
Nah, it's spot on
Really stupid. I mean REALLY stupid.
Yeah, thinking it's a false equivalence is really stupid
They're both reprehensible political extremist movements. BLM has the added stank of being a fraudulent money-laundering scam on top of it, too.
I guess the Summer of Love didn't happen.Ahhh yes the BLM movement, famously known for lynching thousands of people just like the KKK!
Also, the KKK were only fighting to uphold their racist ideals. This is exactly the same as the BLM movement trying to fight against racism.
No false equivalence here!
Yes, both are extremist movements. One (BLM) doesn't want black people to be murdered in the streets, while the other (KKK) want to murder black people in the streets. What is wrong with you?
BLM's purpose is to create racial hatred and divide.
it seems you do that on your own. go on, tell us how many black friends you have now
Seems like you're the one doing it right now...
No, BLM wants to spread lies about society, burn down cities, murder people, and loot, and swindle your own movement out of millions of dollars.
Chauvin's prosecution was political.Get out of here, racist.
Shut up, liar. Quit slandering people.
Still waiting for you to tell me how stating black lives matter is a divisive political statement.....
I'll spell it out for you:
It suggests that it needs to be said because there are lots of people who don't know it. However, everybody knows black lives matter, and it's an implication that everybody who doesn't adopt your race ideology is a racist. In reality, those who do are actually racists in denial and are projecting. I and a lot of other people feel this way.
Then, there are the people who subscribe to your ideology, who think that white people are racist and need to be told to stop being racist, and there are a fair number of people who believe that.
So, there are a lot of people who think one thing, and a lot of people who think another thing. Shouting your shibboleths in the street that declares your difference highlights the division that exists in society. That is what we call "divisive."Oh, and since this is the first time I see you in this thread, I must say I'm sorry I wasn't able to divine that you were waiting for an explanation.
Highlighting the divisions in our society make you feel uncomfortable, your poor thing. The systemic racist institutions in this nation are actively killing folks of color. And seeing someone profess the statement Black Lives Matter brining it to your attention ruins your wittle day. Poor wittle baby
You were the one who specifically asked to have it spelt out to you, and even asked for something I never offered. Don't act like I'm ranting or crying. There are no systemic racist institutions targeting "people of color (everyone but whites)."
The systemic racist institutions in this nation are actively killing folks of color
Nonsense.
When will you people realize that the reason people oppose this crap isn't because they support "systemic racism" or something. It's because they roll their eyes at such ridiculous claim. Especially when such claims are used to justify outright racism against other races
The BLM movement‘s purpose is to highlight the racial injustices black people face everyday in the United States especially in policing. Black neighborhoods are over-policed, their citizens are harassed and in the worst cases murdered in unprovoked situations by police officers. The fact that many people witness these injustices and either remain indifferent or choose to ignore them suggests that black lives do not matter in this country.
Supporting the movement doesn’t mean you automatically think all white people are racist. All it means is that you recognize the racial injustices in society and support people, legislation and the steps it takes to eliminate as many of these as possible. This is why when someone doesn’t support black lives matter, the implication can be viewed as racist. It implies that they wish to keep these injustices ingrained in society. Highlighting the division that still exists in society is the only way to solve these problems. How can you heal the wound if you “won’t even admit the knife is there”?
The BLM movement is astro-turfed into existence by scammers, but I do believe that there is a movement with a purpose that arose as a result. However, I think they're misguided, focusing on race instead of what the real problem is: policing. We have shitty police. They're ignorant, especially of law, and aggressive, and they're following bad orders. That's in the best case. In the worst case, they're corrupt. It doesn't just affect black people, it affects everyone. By making it a race issue you divide people by race and eliminate any possibility of getting any redress.
Yes, black people are disproportionately affected, but they're easy targets because they're disproportionately criminal. That's another thing BLM refuses to address. Why are black people disproportionately criminal? Democrats and the deep state have engineered them to be that way. They bribed fathers out of their homes, sold them crack, promised them free shit, lied to them, and utterly destroyed the black family. They have instantiated the school-to-prison pipeline in inner-city public schools.
If you really wanted to help black people, you'd tell them the truth. There is a solution and it's simple but difficult. Two things need to happen:- Keep the family intact. Fathers are necessary and irreplaceable.
- Take your kids out of public school. School them at home. Do whatever it takes.
Do these two things, and the rest of the details surrounding these problems will solve themselves.
It’s not about refusing to adopt a “race ideology” that suggests racism; it’s the refusal to acknowledge statistical evidence, the refusal to investigate the law and history of this country, the refusal to recognize cause and effect, and the refusal to appreciate that some times, empathy simply is not possible. It’s the refusal to recognize that history has an impact on the present, and to make the future better than the present, we must make the present better than the past. What suggests racism is being presented with all of that information, and take a stand against making things better.
Whatever your thoughts on BLM, Derrick Chauvin deserved everything he got and more.
There's no doubt in my mind that Chauvin is a grade-A cunt, even as cops go. But Floyd was a thug and he died of a fentanyl overdose.
You're aware there is a video of Floyd's murder right? He's not ODing, and neither autopsy supports that conclusion.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-george-floyd-autopsy-new-892530421961
You know what there is evidence supporting though? Derick Chauvin had a history of problematic encounters with other arrestees. Even if George Floyd was a "thug" this was an extrajudicial murder. Cops don't get to be judge, jury or executioner.
Making claims to the contrary is a pretty good indicator of ones media diet...
Funny you say that, the "OD killed George Floyd" theory was floated by "No reasonable viewer takes him seriously" Tucker Carlson.
He literally had OD levels of fentanyl and meth in his system, a half chewed speedball pill was found in the cop car he was in, and he had eaten all the drugs he had on his person in prior arrest videos.
He wasn't killed by anyone but himself
Of course your right, two medical examiners are wrong. He was just about to drop dead from the "overdose levels" of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes. George Floyd was no saint, but that doesn't make his death any less of a murder.
He was just about to drop dead from the "overdose levels" of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes
Question for you. At what point did Floyd start saying he couldn't breathe?
A: while he was still getting into the cop car, before he asked to lie on the ground? B: as he was being detained on the ground?
Hint: the answer is A
I believe black people’s lives matter. I hold that view so strongly that I’m willing to shout it in the streets. Does that make part of a political extremist movement?
If by "shout it in the streets" you really mean "shut down the streets" as BLM tends to do, then absolutely yes you're an extremist
It makes you disingenuous. Everybody knows and believes black lives matter. Shouting it in the street amounts to a society-wide false accusation of racism.
If you then go on to set property on fire or use the message to swindle people out of their money, then you are a political extremist and a criminal.
How is the statement Black Lives Matter a divisive political slogan? Take all the time you need.
Sorry you live in a shitty town where a BLM sticker triggers snowflakes.
Go to any city in America and you'll see all sorts of BLM, rainbow flags, signage on storefronts. This isn't just mom & pop shops, but major companies too.
Great, and each company is entitled to its own rules on those things. Whole foods have decided on theirs and their employees can lump it or go and get a job with the more progressive companies that do allow it.
The left has no leg to stand on when bitching about ideological symbols when kids are getting kicked out of school for having a Gadsden flag patch on their backpack.
Yeah this one in particular pisses me off... A kid lost out on school time because of a flag that had nothing to do with "the south"... and was never co-opted by "racists"... yet the only people I saw freaking out about that was conservatives... And yet here we are...
Uniform is uniform, no politics in work is how every job I've had was. Can I wear a Spanish flag pin cuz it's my heritage? No it violates dress code
False equivalence fallacy.
The BLM/KKK thing is a false equivilance, but his right to say that companies have the right to decide if employees can display political iconography on their uniform and most of them won't want it due to the hassle it will bring and also that it may indicate a corporate connection that isn't there.
I agree with you, but at most places, one will probably get you fired, where the other would be a conversation.
6 day old account with -900 karma... I think it's a troll, guys!
Are you seriously equating BLM to the KKK?
BLM's message is "Please stop murdering us"
How the fuck is that divisive, political, or offensive?
What's divisive is morons like you saying "No, ALL LIVES MATTER".
You're either completely missing the point, in which case you're dumber than I thought possible, or you're willfully ignoring it, in which case you're just a racist.
Which is it?
All lives matter is an anti racist way to say that black lives matter.
I never said, and I never say, "All Lives Matter." That's what stupid conservatives say because they don't understand that's exactly the rhetorical trap BLM has set for them in order to call them racists. Please notice I didn't step in that trap, so don't shove me into it.
When it comes to "What belongs on people's clothes while representing their employer," BLM and KKK are the same.
BLM's message isn't really "Please stop murduring us." It's "You white people are all a bunch of racists."
It's slanderous (which is why it's offensive), it's obviously political at a glance, so inherently so that I don't know how to explain it, and a lot of people don't go for that shit and a lot of other people do (which makes it divisive).