Amazon.comās Whole Foods Market doesnāt want to be forced to let workers wear āBlack Lives Matterā 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 itās forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.
Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high courtās June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case āprovides a clear roadmapā to throw out the NLRBās 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.
Let me spell it out plainly:
You are really jumping through some hoops to prove that the saying, āBlack Lives Matterā has nothing to do with politics. Say it out loud for us. Say itās not a slogan and has no ties to political views.
Not accepting facts contrary to your position? How very conservative of you.
No matter how far left I am, thereās always assholes like you pushing people back to the right. Iām not going right because a bunch a angry teenagers areā¦ angry. But youāre not doing the liberal cause any justice here. In fact, youāre actively hurting it.
Are you saying black lives donāt matter?
Where is the debate on the statement āblack lives matterā? Please argue against that statement.
No what youāre saying is that the statement has been politicized by bad actors. But those are the politics of the bad actors, not politics around the statement itself.
Should the depiction of the Earth as being round be banned as well? There is controversy around that, by idiots and grifters of course, but how is it different about the controversy around BLM?
Surely you share the same opinion about those who wear gear that says āAll lives matterā? Theyāre just good people preaching a message of love?
Maybe I would if I bash my head into a wall enough to cause enough brain damage that I donāt understand that āall lives matterā is part of the politicization effort by bad actors.
See there is an actual real world where people did things with motives that are very well understood. If your ālogicalā arguments are completely dependent on ignoring specific realities, itās not really a logical argument at all. Demanding someone ignore reality so you can have a big āaha! I proved you to be a hypocrite!ā kind of moment is rather silly isnāt it?
So you only bashed your head enough to not understand that the phrase āBlack Lives Matterā is borne out of a social/political movement?
Are you saying all lives donāt matter?
Where is the debate on the statement āall lives matterā? Please argue against that statement.
All lives literally canāt matter if youāre already excluding some in that, thatās the whole point of Black Lives Matter you doofus.
Remember, Black people count as people too, and as long as their lives donāt matter as much then the saying, āAll lives matterā is false. Because if you cared about all lives, then youād be caring about the black lives that are disproportionately harmed and murdered.
And one only needs to take a look at society here in America to see the black lives are treated way worse than white lives. Nearly all facets of our society have some built-in racism whether youāre just going to the hospital with chest pains or trying to buy or sell your house. Youāre gonna get worse quality of everything just because of your skin color and thatās verifiable fact.
And yet all they want you to do is recognize that theyāre being killed at a much higher rate than other people, and want you to care about that. And for some reason that triggers you so.
Saying all lives matter, and believing that is like having a life raft on a boat, and seeing some people drowning, but you decided to throw the life raft to the people at a table, eating shrimp. You know, because all lives matter. Black Lives Matter is just recognizing the drowning people and trying to help them.
Youāre lost ā Iām not defending the All Lives Matter mantra.
Iām pointing out that Black Lives Matter isnāt merely a benign statement of fact, itās a statement borne out of a social/political movement. Which you obviously agree with, based on what you wrote out.
You are arguing in bad faith. BLM came out of police brutality targeting predominantly black communities. Period. End of story. If you donāt understand that, thatās because youāre willfully ignorant of the world happening around you.
Are you lost? Thatās exactly what Iām sayingā¦
No. Because they are in bad faith inverting the wording of the phrase to sound like āmuh common senseā but in reality are just reactionary contrarians that are communicating their social conservative opinions.
Saying Black Lives Matter is only political to right wing racists who believe that the status quo, that Black Lives Donāt Matter, is fine.
So itās political then? Just because one side of the spectrum has heinous beliefs does not make a thing non-political.
Itās both because one side wants it to be to diminish its power. But at its core itās a human rights issue. Itās the words Black Lives Matter, strange if you get upset hearing that and think itās purely political and should be snuffed out where you donāt like facing it. š¤