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Rather than look at it as offensive vs. inoffensive, I'd say that posting photographs of firearms and identifying yourself as a firearms enthusiast signals cert
by i_am_proteus 5y ago
Rather than look at it as offensive vs. inoffensive, I'd say that posting photographs of firearms and identifying yourself as a firearms enthusiast signals certain political views. The same way I suppose that posting a bunch of anti-firearm rhetoric would signal some different political views.
I've always kept my politics out of my businesses, because I've thought that whatever benefit I might get from a strong political signal (attracting like-minded clients) gets washed out, or worse, by the people I'd alienate. These days, it seems more likely that a political signal alienates potential clients than it does attract any.
All that said, it took me a hot minute to hunt down Ezekiel's instagram dot com web page because it doesn't appear to be linked from his business web site. So it more or less seems like that's personal content he doesn't really associate with his business.
And if you have to go out of your way a bit to find a potential business associate's personal social media, it seems like that's intentional to try to keep the business and personal sides of life sort of separate, to whatever extent that's possible in current year.
And if you go looking into people's personal lives, well, I guess it ought not surprise when you find that people have families and political views and interests and passions. You might not agree with everything you find. But if you had to go looking for it, it all might be on you.