Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Can we discriminate against Christians who discriminate against some others?

A core dogma in American radical right White Christian nationalism is the right for wealthy heterosexual White Christian males to discriminate against whoever they choose to hate or oppress, mostly the LGBQT community, non-white immigrants (legal or not), non-white citizens, women, and filthy atheists and other forms of non-Christian heathens. That is rock solid core sacred belief. It's not negotiable or open to debate. An article at Lawyers, Guns & Money poses an interesting hypothesis: 
BY ALITO’S LOGIC, CAN WE DENY CHRISTIANS SERVICE?

A restaurant in Richmond last week canceled a reservation for a private event being held by a conservative Christian organization, citing the group’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

“We have always refused service to anyone for making our staff uncomfortable or unsafe and this was the driving force behind our decision,” read an Instagram post from Metzger Bar and Butchery, a German-influenced restaurant in the Union Hill neighborhood whose kitchen is helmed by co-owner Brittanny Anderson, a veteran of TV cooking shows including “Top Chef” and “Chopped.” “Many of our staff are women and/or members of the LGBTQ+ community. All of our staff are people with rights who deserve dignity and a safe work environment. We respect our staff’s established rights as humans and strive to create a work environment where they can do their jobs with dignity, comfort and safety.”

The group, the Family Foundation, was set to host a dessert reception for supporters on Nov. 30, the group’s president, Victoria Cobb, wrote in a blog post describing the incident. About an hour and a half before it was slated to start, one of the restaurant’s owners called to cancel it, she wrote. “As our VP of Operations explained that guests were arriving at their restaurant shortly, she asked for an explanation,” Cobb wrote. “Sure enough, an employee looked up our organization, and their wait staff refused to serve us.”

I mean, if it’s all about personal values and freedom and such, why can’t we just refuse to serve Christians if we find them outrageous to our value system? I do however await the legal “logic” by which the Supreme Court finds this illegal but refusing to serve gays totally legal.
Interesting, right? Sure, we should be able to deny them whatever they deny us. 

Sadly, that's is what America is degenerating to under radical right Republican Party Christian nationalism and Republican Party brass knuckles, government-hating capitalism. The radical right is forcing people how are attacked and persecuted to defend moral values that radical right Christian nationalists hate and vehemently reject, e.g., tolerance, pluralism, civility, non-heterosexuality, etc.

The theocratic, radical right Republican Party started this war decades ago. It and its supporters are the attackers, oppressors and liars. We have to either defend ourselves or let them screw, abuse and oppress us. 


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Acknowledgement: Thanks to Freeze Preach for bringing this fun article to my attention.

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