Woman refused service for Black Lives Matter shirt at farmer’s market

[Que]

Absolutely nothing, it's commendable if they'd just left off the supporting of the Black Lives Matter organization.

Oh, okay, got it.

 

[Stickfight]

TL/DR VERSION: IU is full of hippies and they lie to everyone about history and live in a fantasy land where the white man is the big bad.

Only read the TL/DR, kinda shocked. I've taken some business classes at IUB and guest taught some physics there, never found that to be the case. I did take a couple of anthro classes at MIT and while they were taught appropriately soft for the soft sciences, there were no full blown hippies in charge. Maybe the weaker schools are just weak all over though.

 

[bwframe]

Oh, okay, got it.

Why didn't the Indiana Fever do something much less controversial that doesn't involve this domestic terrorist group?

Why does it need to involve race?

Why couldn't they pay tribute to fallen officers, LGBTQ, etc. by saying just that? Or better yet, donate their pay for the game to the families of those fallen officers?

http://www.indystar.com/story/sport...se-fined-wnba-shirts-wake-shootings/87395098/

[video=youtube;QdoJ4DVHac8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdoJ4DVHac8[/video]

 

[Stickfight]

Because they are a privately owned organization?

Why should you dictate what they do or say? Do you attend games? You should stop if so.

 

[bwframe]

Because they are a privately owned organization?

Why should you dictate what they do or say? Do you attend games? You should stop if so.

Maybe I shouldn't comment on their actions?

 

[Stickfight]

Maybe I shouldn't comment on their actions?

Who wrote that you shouldn't?

 

[printcraft]

Because they are a privately owned organization?

Why should you dictate what they do or say? Do you attend games? You should stop if so.

They benefit from hoosier tax dollars...... they should probably STFU and play basketball..... badly.

$160M Pacers deal typical, but how will city pay for it?

 

[amboy49]

Wow - a whole $500 ! ! O my gosh ! Sure hope they can afford that ! That's not even a traffic fine (including court costs) in a lot of places.

 

[Stickfight]

They benefit from hoosier tax dollars...... they should probably STFU and play basketball..... badly.

$160M Pacers deal typical, but how will city pay for it?

So do a whole lot of privately owned organizations. There were no strings attached to those dollars that affect their political stances, as far as I know. Why should they be denied freedom of expression then?

 

[bwframe]

...Do you attend games? You should stop if so.

Maybe everyone who believes that Indiana's name should not be associated with BLACK LIVES MATTER should stop supporting the Indiana Fever?

 

[Stickfight]

Maybe. And maybe those same people should stop voting for politicians who spend tax dollars to support sports corporations, but they probably won't.

 

[churchmouse]

So do a whole lot of privately owned organizations. There were no strings attached to those dollars that affect their political stances, as far as I know. Why should they be denied freedom of expression then?

Express on their own time. I am sure they could get a TV camera to give them some air time off the court.
Using a sports venue to be politicized is not cool.
Right or wrong......depends on where you stand but people pay to see a ball game not a political statement.

 

[hoosierdoc]

What would the issues be?

I see you're in an argumentative mood tonight, so here you go.

i would refuse them service and trespass them if they did not remove the shirt.

 

[Stickfight]

people pay to see a ball game not a political statement.

I guess I'd rather let the people who run ball game companies decide what their patrons want rather than dictate to them from the peanut gallery. I'd also rather have leaders who, if it turns out to be economically wise to invest tax dollars in ball game companies, are smart enough to set some conditions on those dollars up front so we aren't in the position of funding absurd positions.

 

[Stickfight]

i would refuse them service and trespass them if they did not remove the shirt.

Do the shirts exclude them from "all my fellow human beings"?

 

[hoosierdoc]

Do the shirts exclude them from "all my fellow human beings"?

What are you talking about.

 

[bwframe]

I guess I'd rather let the people who run ball game companies decide what their patrons want rather than dictate to them from the peanut gallery. I'd also rather have leaders who, if it turns out to be economically wise to invest tax dollars in ball game companies, are smart enough to set some conditions on those dollars up front so we aren't in the position of funding absurd positions.

WNBA withdraws fines for teams that wore black warmup shirts | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com

...The Rev. Al Sharpton said earlier Saturday his organization, the National Action Network, would pay the $500 fines. He called the penalty "unacceptable."...

 

[Stickfight]

What are you talking about.

Ok never mind.

From your username I thought you were a medical doctor.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Ok never mind.

From your username I thought you were a medical doctor.

i am, wth are you talking about

 

[jd4320t]