I once had a b2b customer (store owner) tell me that having different pricing for wholesale and retail customers was racist.
I'm pretty sure meant discriminatory but even that doesn't make much sense.
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It absolutely does make sense because it is discriminatory. He's absolutely correct.
The mistake that you are making, is thinking that all forms of discrimination are bad. They're not. Most are in fact good. We just don't tend to call them discrimination.
He’s absolutely correct.
He said it was racist, so I'm gonna stick with he's not correct.
The mistake that you are making, is thinking that all forms of discrimination are bad.
I am aware of the formal and common uses of the word.
You're right that it's incorrect about the racism. I was referring to the discrimination aspect.
If you're aware, then why do you imply that it wasn't discrimination? Or did I misunderstand that?
The customer called it racist. The person you were responding to said that discrimination would be a better descriptor, but also that the customer was still silly for thinking they had a case because of it, regardless of what words the customer used.
It takes a certain kind of person to get upset that a store isn't treating you like an employee. What's next, demanding access to the private areas? Wait, people already do that too :(
The person I responded to said discriminatory didn't even make sense. I pointed out why it does make sense, because it is discriminatory and that's perfectly fine.
Yes, that's true and not in contrast with what I've said.
Some people just like to argue.
Had a guy tell me he was going to sue me, personally not the store, and financially ruin me because I told him to put on a mask in like April 2020. He didnt do either. I'm sure anyone who worked with the public during that time has some story lol.
I still can't wrap my head around why certain political factions latched onto not wearing a mask as a political rallying cry. Like.....why do you want to kill the people you need to vote for you? I can't understand.
My guess is it was part of a two-pronged election strategy. First, make COVID denial part of the GOP's political platform, so that they're more likely to be performatively reckless, including waiting on line in crowded polling places where no one is masked (which goes further to scare people away that were actually taking COVID seriously), while people taking precautions like voting by mail or by voting early when it's less crowded would be disproportionately likely to vote Democratic.
Then, pass unreasonable regulations like "mail-in and early votes can't be counted until all votes cast on Election Day are counted", while pressuring election workers to post results as early as possible, skewing votes in their favor, or, failing that, point to the fact that the votes against them were counted later as evidence of fraud.