Business says it doesn’t serve anyone who is armed

    • stopthatgirl7OP
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      191 year ago

      …Yeah, do you realize how bad taste it is to compare not letting cops in to Jim Crow discrimination against Black folks? Y’know, the people cops kill a lot?

      I see what you’re trying to do, but…can you please not.

            • stopthatgirl7OP
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              131 year ago

              Yeah, I know, which is why I said I get where you were coming from, but it was still in poor taste.

                • @[email protected]
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                  1 year ago

                  You are getting a funny reaction but I get you.

                  Dude said legalize “no questions asked discrimination” and you referenced a very well known example of discrimination in recent history. Seemed like a logical response to me.

                  • stopthatgirl7OP
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                    91 year ago

                    Yeah, but the issue is using that particular example in a post talking about police.

                    Also, as a Black American, it’s really tiring when we and discrimination against us get pulled out to use as examples. Like, just keep us out of it some times.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Everyone is misunderstanding your post. Add the words “your suggested policy could lead back to” before the sign you were referencing. I only finally got that context by reading the entire thread just now

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      Is being a law enforcement officer a protected class?

      Saying something like “I refuse to serve you in the basis of your race” is illegal because race is a protected class. Whereas “I refuse to serve you because your Lemmy hit-takes are dumb” is perfectly legal! Same as refusing to serve armed thugs masquerading as the good guys.

      • Flying Squid
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        31 year ago

        I just had a situation with this at work that I talked to my wife about. A customer wanted us to do something with an image that had full frontal nudity and my bosses had to have a discussion about whether or not to allow it. My wife said, “aren’t they required to?” I pointed out that if that was true, we wouldn’t be able to refuse Neo-Nazis.