Should businesses, big or small — from Walmart down to a family-owned grocery store — be legally allowed to kick you out because of what you wear or say? For example, if someone wears a Nazi shirt, a KKK shirt, or has a Nazi tattoo on their body, should a business be allowed to kick them out? And, just to be fair, this applies to both the left and the right. If someone walks in wearing a pro-Palestine shirt or a Black Lives Matter shirt, should a business be allowed to kick them out too?

  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    To give my own perspective;

    Private property entails a social relationship in where the property claimant deprives whatever another person or group produces with that property. Private property is therefore theft.

    Someone therefore shouldn’t be able to kick out someone from a store on the premise of it being their land. Nor should one kick another out on the premise of owning the store alone - instead, all who work there have a voice.

    Workplaces may have their own rules; it could be that their commune has a different rule, or that the federation they partake in, has another. It is possible that people can say, “Bob, you come here, but we deny you service, for being an asshole”, and then Bob has to find another.

    I recall that the Conquest of Bread had something to say on it, but I forgot where exactly.