AFA: Shops who display ‘We Don’t Discriminate’ stickers are bullying Christians[W:54]

ocean515 · May 1, 2014

WorldWatcher said:
No business is being required to "pledge allegiance" to anything. The stickers are being distributed by private organization and a business is free to put one in their window or not.

I think it's pretty hypocritical, in terms of "the big picture", though of the AFA to call for boycotts of American companies potentially reducing their sales and causing American's to lose their jobs and then refer to a sticker in the window voluntary sticker in a window proclaiming that all will be served equally as "bullying".

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As I wrote, it's funny how the big picture is so frequently ignored.

As to boycotts, they are a common tool of the left, so I'm not sure what the complaint is.

As to what the AFA is whining about, I don't really care.

ocean515 · May 1, 2014

Fearandloathing said:
The argument that's presented is indeed a slippery slope, but dangerous as well in that it, typically of the American socialist, ignores much of the issue.

It is not a matter of a business staying current, nor an identified niche market, but whether those businesses will be allowed unfettered access to that market? Let us say I form a PAC that is dead set against the color red, and we enact an internal bylaw that says we can create picket lines around any store selling anything red.

In this case, it is a gang of deluded bigots hiding behind a God who would have nothing to do with them, determining what a store can and can't do. If I want to run a bakery for only gay Chinese people with one leg shorter than the other who have killed a whale, I should be free to do so, and either score big or lose everything. If I want to create a business that sells to everyone but gay Chinese people with one leg shorter than the other who have killed a whale I should also be able to do so.

Perhaps a store in this town with a sign that read "We reserve the right not to sell to bigots" might wake them up. I would love to cover that lawsuit.

Head of nail meet hammer.

If store owners want to be idiots, let the consumer be the judge of it's future.

However, demanding a pledge of allegiance? A very, very dangerous solution to a problem that would take care of itself.

WorldWatcher · May 1, 2014

ocean515 said:
As I wrote, it's funny how the big picture is so frequently ignored.

As to boycotts, they are a common tool of the left, so I'm not sure what the complaint is.

As to what the AFA is whining about, I don't really care.

Boycotts are also a common tool of the right. I'm not the one complaining about boycotts.

I'm simply pointing out the hypocrisy of an organization that has called for many, many boycotts in it's day in an attempt to damage businesses and put American's out of jobs and then they complain when sticker appears stating that all customers will be serviced equally and call that "bullying".

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RedAkston · May 1, 2014

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wolfsgirl · May 1, 2014

ocean515 said:
I think thought police shouldn't be successful and controlling commerce, and shouldn't be encouraged to think they can.

That's what I think.

And in the real world, both business owners and customers are showing their displeasure with the new laws enacted in MS that allow discrimination based on "religious belief".
Also in the real world, people use a large variety of reason in determining where to spend their money, discrimination or lack thereof is just one of those reasons.

WorldWatcher · May 1, 2014