Infected Mushroom wrote:Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
Fuck that "I not only have the right to be a bigoted asshole, but I have the right to take my bigotry out on people by not serving them." bullshit. Fuck it right in the ear. You want to live like that, you go ahead and invent a time machine to take you back to the early to mid 20th century, where you can see "No Coloreds Allowed" signs posted as far as the eye can see down South. Hell, even up North you knew which places would serve you, and which ones would quietly ignore you until you left in embarrassment. The rest of us? We'll hang out in the 21st century, where you have the right to feel however you want about anyone, but you don't have the right to deny them a public accommodation that you would provide to anyone else for a set fee.
have you ever heard of something called freedom of contract and property rights?
why shouldn't someone have complete control over his own labor, investment, time, and property establishment? why shouldn't they have the right in a free society to choose who they want to engage in a mutually beneficial economic transaction with and who they don't want to have that relation with?
why should there be forced labor in a modern economic context? Because that's what this amounts to. You're talking about forcing sellers to perform against their individual will with the threat of state-sanctioned lawsuits, fines, and imprisonment.
People don't get to do that, because it historically turns entire swaths of other people into second class citizens based upon inherent characteristics or matters of personal conscience.
If you don't see how this is a significantly greater evil than racist pricks having to serve black people at the lunch counter, then we have nothing further to discuss