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.
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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unsolicited political opinions are a matter of fact for life out in public and this poorly done burger king example is the one side of this coin with the well done hasbara being the opposite side.
decrying the former while ignoring the latter is a selectively that can only be understood as that culturally ingrained and hasbara supported desire to stick your head in the a sand when it comes to topics you consider undesirable.
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?
Why would you give a fuck what I say if you haven’t heard about my reputation?
There is a difference between opinion and information. I know that you’re very upset with my words (though I’m not really sure why) but they are words, with meaning. I’m not asking for your opinion (you already gave that), I’m asking for how you arrived at it.
We are here to discuss this. We are not in a Burger King checkout.
I’m not upset! I’m just using your own words against you, I thought that was fairly obvious, lol.
By not understanding them? Sick burn haha
Buddy if you’re not careful your reputation is gonna go from unknown to bad!
Is this when I shout a political slogan at you? lol