• Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Put your loved ones in danger supporting a topic they care little about. Your mentality is the same used to support wars.

    “My morality dictates this is worth putting other people in the line of fire for my ideals!”

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      1 year ago

      By allowing the terrorism to succeed they’re encouraging further harassment against a vulnerable minority.

      Many of my loved ones were already in danger from those hateful bigots, who are now emboldened and looking for new targets thanks to spineless corporate appeasement.

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          1 year ago

          No, my solution is to protect the workers and continue to stand for queer acceptance. When people shoplift these corporations have no qualms with spending millions on security, but when it comes to standing up for the LGBTQ+ community they won’t put their money where their mouth is, they would rather shift the conflict onto people who don’t have ample resources to defend themselves.

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              I’ve worked retail for stores like that. It doesn’t need to be the way you’re describing it. If they put a fraction of the effort they put towards loss prevention into protecting their workers everyone could be safe.

              Costco required masks for years during the pandemic, some people hated it and blamed the workers, but instead of giving up and backing down Costco invested in keeping their staff safe and de-escalating conflicts.