GrayoxSep 16, 2023

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

https://lemmy.ml/post/5023791

Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples - Lemmy

Amazon.com [http://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.

Show threadtransigenceSep 16, 2023
Obviously, no business wants to be associated with BLM any more than they want to be associated with the KKK. Every company I've ever worked for has had dress codes that prohibited divisive political slogans and offensive language.
Show threadmookulatorSep 16, 2023
That’s quite the false equivalence you’ve made there
Show threadtransigenceSep 16, 2023
They're both reprehensible political extremist movements. BLM has the added stank of being a fraudulent money-laundering scam on top of it, too.
I guess the Summer of Love didn't happen.
Show threadhollandSep 16, 2023
Yes, both are extremist movements. One (BLM) doesn’t want black people to be murdered in the streets, while the other (KKK) want to murder black people in the streets. What is wrong with you?
Show threadtransigenceSep 16, 2023
No, BLM wants to spread lies about society, burn down cities, murder people, and loot, and swindle your own movement out of millions of dollars.
Chauvin's prosecution was political.
Show threadIm14abeer
Whatever your thoughts on BLM, Derrick Chauvin deserved everything he got and more.
Sep 17, 2023 at 3:29amWeb
Show threadtransigenceSep 17, 2023
There's no doubt in my mind that Chauvin is a grade-A cunt, even as cops go. But Floyd was a thug and he died of a fentanyl overdose.
Show threadIm14abeerSep 17, 2023

You’re aware there is a video of Floyd’s murder right? He’s not ODing, and neither autopsy supports that conclusion.

apnews.com/…/fact-check-george-floyd-autopsy-new-…

You know what there is evidence supporting though? Derick Chauvin had a history of problematic encounters with other arrestees. Even if George Floyd was a “thug” this was an extrajudicial murder. Cops don’t get to be judge, jury or executioner.

George Floyd’s autopsy report is not new, does not say he died of an overdose

CLAIM: A new autopsy report for George Floyd has been released in 2023, revealing he died from a drug overdose, not from the actions of arresting Minneapolis police officers.

AP News
Show threadmarcoSep 17, 2023
Making claims to the contrary is a pretty good indicator of ones media diet…
Show threadIm14abeerSep 18, 2023
Funny you say that, the “OD killed George Floyd” theory was floated by “No reasonable viewer takes him seriously” Tucker Carlson.
Show threadfreeindvSep 17, 2023

He literally had OD levels of fentanyl and meth in his system, a half chewed speedball pill was found in the cop car he was in, and he had eaten all the drugs he had on his person in prior arrest videos.

He wasn’t killed by anyone but himself

Show threadIm14abeerSep 18, 2023
Of course your right, two medical examiners are wrong. He was just about to drop dead from the “overdose levels” of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes. George Floyd was no saint, but that doesn’t make his death any less of a murder.
Show threadfreeindvSep 18, 2023

He was just about to drop dead from the “overdose levels” of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes

Question for you. At what point did Floyd start saying he couldn’t breathe?

A: while he was still getting into the cop car, before he asked to lie on the ground? B: as he was being detained on the ground?

Hint: the answer is A

Show threadIm14abeerSep 18, 2023
OK, so Chauvin knew Floyd was having breathing difficulty and still decided to kneel on his neck well after he became motionless, well after he was handcuffed and prone. What is your argument here?