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Businesses can discriminate against their customers? Alright then... (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by minimar@lemmy.world to c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

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[–] mochi@lemdit.com 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There's a contradiction here. The Supreme Court ruled that Speech can't be compelled, not that you could bar certain people from a business. You could decline to decorate a cake with "MAGA", but not decline to sell a cake to a Republican, for example. What those signs are promoting is still illegal.

[–] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Forgive me, but I don't believe political affiliation is a protected class--protected classes are the only things people can't discriminate based on. So like, race, sex, religion are protected, but democrat/republican/green party aren't protected. Businesses can legally discriminate against non-protected classes. It's just usually a bad business strategy to turn customers away.

[–] mochi@lemdit.com 1 points 2 years ago

Good point.

[–] Thorosofbeer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Personally I think you should be able to decline any service to anyone for any reason. Anything less than that is government compelled work.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

and then we're back to segregation

[–] PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That just allows people to be overtly bigoted and crated an apartheid society. And we did have this: "no blacks", "no Irish"...

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

Well, that is what conservatives consider to be the peak of America.

"Make America Great Again" - "great" is when America was apartheid.

[–] catharticrespite@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

That makes no sense. You think it's okay to deny service based on race?

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

and then we're back to segregation

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

So you can simply refuse service in any business by refusing to speak to them.