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Sure, I've never heard it described that way. That makes it sound like the point of asking to be served is to punish and frustrate the bakery. I've never hear
by fortanatude 6y ago
Sure, I've never heard it described that way. That makes it sound like the point of asking to be served is to punish and frustrate the bakery. I've never heard civil rights protests called the "serve my lunch racist!" debate.
The sentiment behind the phrase "bake my cake bigot!" seems to trivialize the issue of being discriminated against by a public business and incorrectly attributes malice to the person being discriminated against.
I'm not attributing any ill-intent to you but wanted to give feedback on that terminology which is why I asked the question. Thanks for your response.
- tal8d 6y agoIt sounds to me like I did a good job of phrasing it then, because I do believe that the baker was treated maliciously. One has to be careful with the public accommodation argument - which is why the SC took the easy way out on this one. One wrong step and we get "wax my balls biggot!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Human_Rights_Tribunal#Yaniv_v._Various_Waxing_Salons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Human_Rights_...
- fortanatude 6y agoThat's too bad. I'm glad I've called out the drive-by homophobia in your post to make it clear to others it is not acceptable.
- tal8d 6y agoAnd I'm glad that you've illustrated my point perfectly. Having misinterpreted my statement to be homophobic, you've chanted the magic words to summon the specter of censorship.
- bitcharmer 6y agoWhere exactly do you see homophobia in their comments? See, this is the problem right here. Whenever people like you hear something they disagree with you'll start screaming "bigot" or "homophobe" or "nazi". How are we supposed to have a mature, civilised discussion about these things?
- fastball 6y agoHow is that "drive-by homophobia"? I see no evidence whatsoever that GC has a prejudice against homosexuals.
- DeathArrow 6y agoI find it unacceptable of accusing people of things they didn't do.
- notadev 6y agoWhen I read about the cake shop story, I believe the reason I didn't automatically side with the gay couple was because it appeared they visited multiple shops, specifically looking for a shop that would not accommodate their request to make an overtly "gay-themed" cake. Even when they found the shop that was sued, the baker offered to make them alternative cakes, just not one that had their preferred phraseology. It seemed more like they were trying to make a point/easy cash grab, which ultimately backfired.