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You're really stretching the argument. Probably the worst is confusing the US Military with a coffeeshop customer. At most they'd be the supplier or employer, a

You're really stretching the argument. Probably the worst is confusing the US Military with a coffeeshop customer. At most they'd be the supplier or employer, and like I said you're free not to buy from or work with people you don't like. That was never in doubt, not in this conversation nor in most conversations. We're talking about canceling customers here. Or employees, for that matter. US Military is many things, but not "the little guy". Second is conflating things that affect a businesses operation in concrete ways with abstract ethical transgressions. They're very different things. Half the US population voted for Trump, but I doubt you'll find a handful to support shitting in stores, or opening plane doors during flight. That's not a small difference, it's a 4-5 digits difference. > such as if the professor is teaching that people of color are less intelligent because of their skin color If he's a biology or psychology professor, then it's a factual error and he should be fired for it. If he's teaching physics, then it's at most an optics issue, and while he has a fair chance of being fired it'll be a cultural decision. In a different society an atheist may be fired for speaking his beliefs. I'll also note that you picked a rather heavy-handed example - most real life cases are far from being so openly racist. I could also say something about correlation vs causation, but that would be plain goading you :)

zaarn 5y ago
> Probably the worst is confusing the US Military with a coffeeshop customer. At most they'd be the supplier or employer, and like I said you're free not to buy from or work with people you don't like. That was never in doubt, not in this conversation nor in most conversations. We're talking about canceling customers here. Or employees, for that matter. Again, there isn't really a difference except which side of a business contract does the cancelling. > Second is conflating things that affect a businesses operation in concrete ways with abstract ethical transgressions. They're very different things. Half the US population voted for Trump, but I doubt you'll find a handful to support shitting in stores, or opening plane doors during flight. That's not a small difference, it's a 4-5 digits difference. I don't see why one of those is supposed to be some secret protected class. If you vote fascist, you ought to be thrown in jail IMO but that's off topic. A business should very well be allowed to deny supporting fascist customers. It doesn't matter how well supported an action was, a business should have the right to deny business to a customer or employee at will.

zaarn 5y ago

> Probably the worst is confusing the US Military with a coffeeshop customer. At most they'd be the supplier or employer, and like I said you're free not to buy from or work with people you don't like. That was never in doubt, not in this conversation nor in most conversations. We're talking about canceling customers here. Or employees, for that matter. Again, there isn't really a difference except which side of a business contract does the cancelling. > Second is conflating things that affect a businesses operation in concrete ways with abstract ethical transgressions. They're very different things. Half the US population voted for Trump, but I doubt you'll find a handful to support shitting in stores, or opening plane doors during flight. That's not a small difference, it's a 4-5 digits difference. I don't see why one of those is supposed to be some secret protected class. If you vote fascist, you ought to be thrown in jail IMO but that's off topic. A business should very well be allowed to deny supporting fascist customers. It doesn't matter how well supported an action was, a business should have the right to deny business to a customer or employee at will.