09-06-2021, 05:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-06-2021, 06:18 PM by danbrotherston.)
(09-06-2021, 12:35 PM)jeffster Wrote:(09-06-2021, 06:36 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: "Just the same"...you find this "racist"...oh boy that's rich, and ridiculous to a level I don't think is worth touching.
And you did call people, including myself hypocrites. You pretend to qualify it but you qualify it with using some of the most common companies around (and I already explained why your reasoning is false).
Yes, I worked at Google, but I have no emotional attachment to any company I work for, so at least that one made me laugh.
I have no religious objection to them, I have many friends who attend Christian churches, none of them see my other friends in the LGBTQ community as less deserving of rights as the owners of Chik-a-fil do--THAT is what I object to.
I'm not triggered, I am calmly and coherently replying to your points, because I believe it is an important issue to discuss. If anyone is triggered, it's the person randomly playing the race and religion cards.
Look, with this rambling and accusatory response here it's clear you're very defensive about this. I have no idea why.
You are saying that I am calling you a hypocrite. You clearly didn't read the entire paragraph to understand the context. And I am not the one that is 'defensive'.
Whatever the case with Chick-Fil-A:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fact...244765001/
Same can't be said about the other companies.
BTW: At least I provide links. If you know that the franchisee of the Kitchener Chick-Fil-A is anti LGBTQ+, please post your evidence.
Franchisees are still contributing to the corporate bottom line, the corporation has merely derisked their business by placing risk on the individual operator.
And yes, if you say "If you do very common, ubiquitous and unavoidable activity x, then you are a hypocrite", then you are calling people hypocrites. You are not trying to say that it is possible to not be a hypocrite by avoiding x, you are trying to say that by telling you that I don't agree with Chick-a-fil then I MUST be a hypocrite because there is no way that I avoid all these other companies. That is the context I read.
And I'll say it one more time for those in the back, you are drawing an equivalence that does not exist. I've explained why, it's your choice to disregard that.