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

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[-] mochi@lemdit.com 19 points 2 years ago

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 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 4 points 2 years ago

Good point.

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

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

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