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.
Jesus you’re down to the third definition in one dictionary. I’ve seen some weak ass internet lawyering in my time but holy shit.
Why not just be honest about things? You’ve gotten convinced by right wing political narratives about what BLM is and because of culture war politics you want to repress this cultural artifact?
So this is just a political faction using fear and intimidation to repress culture. Go ahead with your silly “the rules are the rules” bullshit, but it’s obvious that many cultural adornments are considered acceptable by Amazon except this particular one because they’re afraid of a violent political faction or are perhaps in agreement with that political faction. Either way it’s a political faction repressing culture, ie. Culture War. It’s not even like anyone’s subtle about their motives in all of this. Why are you trying so hard to be?