Cypress (05-21-2020), domer76 (05-21-2020), Guno צְבִי (05-21-2020), ThatOwlWoman (05-22-2020)
Congratulations, you don't have to wear a mask. Well, on your terms of rights. Store owners, employers, city officials, etc have rights to and just like at your home people can't just walk in and tell you what to do. All these things have owners with their house rights themselves. As much as you have the right not to have to wear a mask in your house they have the right that you have to if you want to be in their facility. It's that simple people. That means restaurants, employers, etc have their right to bar you the privilege of using their facilities. Now you can go crawl back home where your rights are on top.
Cypress (05-21-2020), domer76 (05-21-2020), Guno צְבִי (05-21-2020), ThatOwlWoman (05-22-2020)
That has zero to do with regulation or a bakers rights. That has to do with the fulfillment of the contract of services provided. It was a mandate put in place at the end of segregation for obvious reasons. You are playing on the cities rights there and their house rules. If you provide a service you can't deny it based on race, gender, or any other factor of who a person is as a human being. To operate a business in public adherence to this is non-negotiable. If you make wedding cakes, etc you have to provide the same thing across those lines.
ThatOwlWoman (05-22-2020)
Doc Dutch (05-22-2020), Matt Dillon (05-24-2020)
If that were the law of the land black people would have been nearly disenfranchised in much of the South through into today. Basically they'd be segregated still. No fucking way. You are in the cities house when you run a business. You can abide by law or they can take away your license to operate in their community.
christiefan915 (05-22-2020), Guno צְבִי (05-22-2020), ThatOwlWoman (05-22-2020)
Callinectes (05-23-2020), Grokmaster (05-21-2020), Matt Dillon (05-24-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (05-22-2020)
Charoite (05-21-2020)
Part of me wonders if the anti-mask simps even understand store and restaurant regulations. Hell, how many years have we had the classic no shirt, no shoes, no service.
christiefan915 (05-22-2020), Cypress (05-22-2020), Doc Dutch (05-22-2020), domer76 (05-22-2020), ThatOwlWoman (05-22-2020)
Sorry, but that's Yankee prejudice against Southern Whites. This isn't 1950 down here. Business is business. Yes, there will always be a few knuckleheads, but most people are more interested in minding their own business and making money to feed the family.
Any businessman who turns away customers based on bigotry and prejudice is soon to be an out-of-business businessman. Think of all the Yelp reviews and his that business's competitors would clean up.
I don't like the idea of forcing people to do the morally right thing. It's not any government's place, especially an American government. A better way, IMO, is to set and enforce standards of conduct for businesses to qualify for government loans, tax breaks and, as in COVID, government subsidies/impact checks. If an asshole businessman won't serve a group of people because of their race, gender, sexual preference, religion, etc, fine....but no government help for them. They foot all of their own bills and pay full tax.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Matt Dillon (05-24-2020)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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