discriminating on the basis of political viewpoin<\/a>t.<\/p>\nIt’s completely legal, of course, under freedom of association.\u00a0 It’s the same reason I don’t shop at Dick’s Sporting Goods, the America-hating social justice suck-ups who won’t sell Black Rifles, and the reason I won’t spend money in any store that bans guns on the premises to provide a sanctuary for criminals.\u00a0 I disagree with their political viewpoint so I won’t support it.<\/p>\n
Customers have a right to discriminate against merchants based on their political viewpoint.\u00a0 Should merchants have a right to discriminate against customers based on their political viewpoint?\u00a0 Tough question.<\/p>\n
I’m on the side of the wedding cake decorator who doesn’t want do gay cakes.\u00a0 I’m against Visa who doesn’t want to facilitate gun sales.\u00a0 I could use some help from SITD readers.\u00a0 How do we balance the rights?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’ll throw this out to my audience, who are inevitably much smarter than I am.<\/p>\n
My two cents:\u00a0 it takes two to balance.\u00a0 The other side wants nothing to do with “balance”.\u00a0 \u00a0 I think we are inevitably sliding into two different economies (at best) or complete dissolution as a nation ,one way or the other.<\/p>\n
Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Visa and Mastercard won’t service conservative businesses.\u00a0 They are intentionally discriminating on the basis of political viewpoint. It’s completely legal, of course, under freedom of association.\u00a0 It’s the same reason I don’t shop at Dick’s Sporting Goods, the America-hating social justice suck-ups who won’t sell Black Rifles, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67792,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67784\/revisions\/67792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}