You really just want my attention don't you? You quoted this already, I responded. I go to sleep and you quote it again lol.
I don't think you know the words you're using or waht they mean.
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Spectral outside of the whole bathroom laws, the state essentially said no portion of the state can have anti discrmination laws protecting gays. A month after those laws were passed.
Yes, and this is the important point here. Based on the new state law, if restaurant owners, hotels, whatever, want to deny service to someone because they're gay, they can.... they can't deny service based on natural gender, they can't deny service based on skin color or faith, but the North Carolina law specifically says they can discriminate based on sexual orientation. (I doubt it could survive a federal or supreme court challenge, but that's beside the point).
I have no problem with what the NBA's doing. People always say that if you don't support what someone is doing, you take your money elsewhere or you vote for someone else. This is no different, it's just on a bit larger scale.
The argument others haveis always "well leave" "you don't have to have your business here"
At least that's what I usually see when we're talking about gay individuals not liking bigoted businesses, but when a business movies because it doesn't like bigotted states, oh nooooo how dare they move! It's wrong and they're just crying.
I mean "free market" argument and all dissapears.
Yes, I'm referring to people that are upset on both sides. I don't believe very many people in either direction are affected in any material way by this. Both sides use this as an opportunity to show how morally virtuous they are.
I'm not sure what your objection to "leftist" is. The term "leftist" seems a more accurate description of people that are campaigning here than "liberal".
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I think that it's hard to plausibly argue that this policy is anywhere near impactful enough to justify the stink over it on the merits of the matter.
I wonder what the true reason is.
Most likely money related in one way or another.
Branding. That's really all it is.
Now a company moving headquarters or operations or somesuch -- that often has to do with talent availability and the desire to have a diverse workforce (which has been proven to improve a company's overall performance)
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I just want to chime in to say you are arguing two different things -- who has the best athletes and who has the highest paid athletes. These are likely not the same.
Do you at least see the difference in reacting to laws that have been passed and using your influence to get laws passed that benefit you?
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Lets be honest the best all around "pure" athletes are the Olympic gymnasts, just no one can name them
gymnasts aren't even the best pure athletes in the olympics (decathlon says hello)
but really, 'best' is a really subjective measure in this context. Best at what?
Remember a few years back when the SJWs went on a race flaming mouth foaming outrage over the Timberwolves not having enough Black people on the team?
They had 7 Black players on a roster of 15 and that wasn't good enough haha.
Hilarious to see a sports league that has less than 2% Latino and less than 1% Asian makeup accusing anybody of being intolerant.
I think the NBA should get with the times and adopt some affirmative action practices.
Oh and how come women cant be in the NBA?
How come they have to be segregated?
Pfff ...play the fkin game and leave the social bullshit out of it.
MAGA
When all you do is WIN WIN WIN
They have the right to do that, and I have the right to not care. Because it's just freaking basketball, and there are about a million different things that are more entertaining to watch. It's funny though, that people get so butthurt over a state that simply doesn't want grown men in the same changing rooms as little girls.
“Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things...But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
Were there grown men in little girls changing rooms before this law was enacted? I don't get how a law aimed at trans people, is supposed to help target none trans people, who are already covered by law. In case you didn't know, peeping toms are illegal already, before this law.
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