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Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples (fortune.com)

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Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” 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 it’s forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.

Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case “provides a clear roadmap” to throw out the NLRB’s 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.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A company not wanting it's employees to wear politicized materials while at work is what makes you mad? I suppose you also want them to be able to wear rebel flag or SS masks? A Trump facemask with MAGA on it? Maybe you just read the title?

[–] michaelrose@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Black Lives Matter is a unambiguously good stance.

The rebel flag signifies support for people who fought a war against their fellows for the right to hold others in chains. SS signifies support for a mass murder's campaign to subjugate the world and drag the world into darkness. Support for Trump is support for an autocrat who would replace Democracy with a cult of personality.

The fact that you cannot distinguish these beyond lumping them together as political stances doesn't speak well for your analytical skills. How about you can support your fellow man but you can't support evil?

[–] freeindv@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago

There's nothing good about supporting a terrorist organization

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BLM may be a good thing, but the simple fact is that it has still become politicized and while not displaying BLM causes no customers to get pissy, displaying it does get some customers pissy. Companies aren't obligated to "rock the boat".

[–] michaelrose@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe we shouldn't coddle and normalize bigots

[–] Lowered_lifted 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not actually a problematic political stance to state that Black Lives Matter, it's unambiguously good, whereas the other things you mention are hate speech, hope that helps.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't say it was good, bad, or neutral. The fact is that it doesn't matter, because as I've already stated, it's a politicized subject.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

No I don't want them to allow Confederate, Nazi, or Trump symbols. Because those things suck.

What is it with people that think that we're supposed to be fair to racist assholes? Learn a little about the paradox of tolerance, ok?