Ray From Cleveland
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And you would be taking yet another position you can't back up, because it STILL isn't a political position at all.
You can look at it anyway you like and the rest of us will look at it our way. If it were not a political decision, it wouldn't even be a topic. If Dick's stopped selling pup tents, nobody would give a damn because nobody would have even heard about it.
Yanno in over 200 posts here I don't believe the OP ever did make the case to justify his thread title but just because he makes up a bullshit title and punches "create thread" --- doesn't mean it isn't still bullshit. And bullshit it remains until he makes his case, which he can't do. You're a better thinker than him and you can't do it either.
Once again, and I guess we'll just keep at it until it sinks in, a business making its own choices about what to add or drop from its wares, has nothing to do with "politics". And the measure of that has absolutely zero to do with "nobody would have even heard about it". Any given retail business will sell, or not sell, whatever legal goods it chooses to sell or not sell, under the conditions it chooses to sell or not sell them. They cant be required to sell something just because you, an admitted non-customer of their business, think they "should". That's absurd. It's also fascist.
Wrong. It's just like when Target decided to cater to goof balls wearing dresses. It was political because the right is for two genders only in our society and the left is for thirty. It's a right and left issue. Guns are a right and left issue. Gay marriage was a right and left issue. Speaking of which, it was the left that tried to boycott Chick-Fil-A because of their religious stance on gay marriage.
You seem enslaved to this absurd dichotomy machine to fuel your blanket generalizations.
I have no idea what the Target reference means but I believe Chick-fil-A was the fast food chain I was trying to think of that closes on Sundays ---- once again, a business decides how (and when) it will do what it does. Just as CVS decides it will stop selling tobacco even though it's legal and a source of revenue to do so, just as Dick's drops the AR-15s, etc etc etc.
Once AGAIN there's no law, nor can there be, declaring that CVS "must" sell tobacco, that Chick-Fil-A "must" open on Sundays, or that Dick's or Mal-Wart or K-Mart "must" sell firearms. THAT'S THEIR CHOICE.
When I moved into this town it was a "dry" county (no liquor). In time "dry" was voted out and it became legal to sell booze. Immediately the local megagrocery cleared out a corner of its space to sell beer and wine and a liquor store opened down the road. The "political" part of that was the referendum that made the county "wet". Once that was done, politics ceased to be associated with it. The businesses added alcohol sales (or did not) according to what made sense to their business and their own sensibilities. No law, and no politics, "required" them to sell or not sell alcohol -- it's their own decision.
Alcohol sales are not controversial nor drawn on political lines. We still have a suburb called Bay Village which to my knowledge is still a dry burb. Most areas here were dry on Sunday's when I was growing up. They all serve alcohol now, but again, that was a desire of the public.
If you want to take politics out of business, that's fine with me. But again, if it wasn't political, it wouldn't be a topic or news story. Nobody would care. But because it's political, we do care and it's up for discussion or to be a story. Regardless of how you look at it, most of us do look at it as political.