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Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if it’s forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.

Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case “provides a clear roadmap” to throw out the NLRB’s complaint.

The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's just a "thought terminating cliche", like "it is what it is". Its intention is to end a conversation that the speaker doesn't want to have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

Created as a response to "Black Lives Matter", it means "I don't care about black lives because I am not black. Stop talking about them."

To prove this, just ask anyone who utters or displays that phrase the following question:

"What do you think about black people?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

And you think if this goes through, Amazon wouldn't also ban masks with that slogan on them?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you missed the joke "All Lives Matter" was the fascists' response, making both political

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Neither is political. One is a statement of identity and the other is against that identity.

"I exist" and "you should not exist" are not political opinions. They are existential ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So you agree with that the BLM masks should be replaced with Fuck Tha Police masks

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

"Black Lives Matter" is not a statement that merely means "I exist". It's a statement borne from a social/political movement, and it's disingenuous to suggest otherwise.