Burger King has terminated an employee at its Breinigsville, Pennsylvania location following an exchange with a customer that was recorded and shared widely on social media, triggering a polarized debate about political speech in customer service settings.
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The Israeli was very clearly ragebaiting and likely lied about what happened to begin with.
Also telling Nazi’s to get lost is objectively based.
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What shitty follow up behavior, saying Free Palestine to a Zionist?
It’s astounding how hard people are willing to kowtow to the Liberal mindset. Things are as normal as you want them to be.
/u/joe@lemmy.world is a hate promoter. Go take a look at their comment history. They are perfectly fine with promoting hate as long as they don’t have to interfere.
Just because you don’t have a spine doesn’t mean anyone else should follow your spineless path through life.
You equate lack of respect with… Bravery? Interesting.
I equate with standing up for your beliefs in the face of intolerance cowardice, yes.
Are we talking about the same thing? We’re talking about a random customer in a burger king line having political slogans shouted at him, right?
Yeah. And me being an employee having slurs thrown at me by a random customer isn’t going to make me turtle into a pathetic shell like you are. I would and have stand up for my beliefs no matter the platform or location.
What slurs are you talking about?
Our cultural aversion towards talking about sex and politics (assuming you’re a westerner) has made both worse of for the overwhelming majority of people and there’s no clearer sign of it than trump, meloni, milei, bukele and other fascists candidates gaining ground in the rest of Europe and Epstein/mossad’s – literally – industrial global scale application of sexual kompromat.
Have political discussions with friends and family, not random strangers trying to work.
with both and in constructive ways.
Disagree. There is a major power imbalance between workers and customers. Case in point: this article
yes, there’s always a power imbalance like there is with the isreali hasbara and your own opinion; especially so if you’re a public figure in some way.
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there are constructive ways to do it and both the example contained in the article and that of yours w maga show the non-constructive ways.
like seemingly all silly social conventions, people assume the worst and i think it’s because a few well received snowflakes are afraid of confronting something that they don’t want to consider. either that or it’s intentional for herd people’s thought process like the isreali hasbara keeps doing really well.
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You know you don’t have a reputation to us, right? Seems like you’re defeating your own point.
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Reputation zero, point disregarded.
I didn’t think my point was so complicated that it would go over anyone’s head, but here we are.
When it comes to unsolicited opinions from strangers, there’s no point because I have no frame of reference (aka no reputation) to judge the quality of the opinion. If I invite an opinion, then that’s different.
Here, where we come together to share ideas, the opinions aren’t unsolicited. The OP posted something, which invites commentary. Commentary invites a discussion.
opinions are being pushed on you all the time 24/7/365 whether you’re capable of recognizing it or not; the difference is on how well it’s done and whether or not you’ve heard it repeated enough times to make you believe in it.
we call it public relations in the western world and the nazis called it propaganda, but whatever you call it, it’s the same thing – mass psychological manipulation – and none of this is my opinion; the people who formally weaponized it; edward bernays and joseph goebbels; both said as much and the proof is in the pudding.
Yes, yes, you’re oh so very smart and sophisticated.
The person in the article was buying shitty fast food. There was no value in someone shouting “free Palestine” at him, and no one is better off for it.
Even if we take your oh-so-sophisticated stance, I don’t see how adding even more shitty opinions to the mix makes it better. I’m assuming, of course, that you consider “mass psychological manipulation” a bad thing and want less of it. All the more reason for people to keep their opinions to themselves unless asked for it.
i never expected to see an anti-intellectualism sentiment expressed on lemmy before but i guess it makes sense coming from your instance.
advertisements and the news from our legacy media are the biggest vehicles of this manipulation and you’re constantly bombarded by it, as i said earlier. you should likewise reject those narratives in the same way if you want to call yourself a rational and/or consistent human being.
also, reading something that you haven’t doesn’t mean sophistication; it only means that i bothered to stop drinking western propaganda and i heartily recommend it, but i’m certain that you won’t bother.
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There’s a difference between the opinion of a person you meet in real life, and the opinions force fed down your throat by advertisements and mass media.
can you articulate the difference?
Hey, that’s how we got to our current situation!
We don’t care.