For real, how can they compare that one Christian bakery with Twitter and Big Tech.
And on top of that, they use it like some ultimate "gotcha" moment.
The bakery was asked to create something from zero (with their hands, their name and brand).
Twitter was asked to host something (made by others, with other people's names and protected by Section 230).
I personally think it's not that hard to distinguish between the two, but whatever.
BTW, I'm not excusing the politicians that made life super easy for Big Tech and their friends - I still think they were dumb - but now we are experiencing unseen levels of doublethink.
The cake argument fails on a couple levels.
To build on your second point, IIRC didn’t the gay couple in question deliberately drive an hour+ out of their way to go to a specific Christian bakery to antagonize them?
Don't know about drive time but they did go around calling multiple bakeries until they found one that finally refused them, yes.
Can we bake the Trump Won cake though, or is that terrorism.
They were from Connecticut. So they not only went across the country, but they went to multiple bakeries to find one that would refuse.
Never forget... they are all like this. All of them.
In fact, that's where this argument should end. Even if said bakery was a monopoly or acted in collusion with other businesses to prevent you from eating their cakes, or even created nigh impossible cakes to recreate, the fact that it can't refuse to sell a cake to gay couple is all you need to state to ruin the stupid analogy.
Good point about the collusion- imagine the bakery not only refusing to see you a cake but talking with all the other bakeries to ban you from their stores, as well as colluding with the grocery stores to stop you from buying the ingredients to bake your own cake, and with the appliance retailers to prevent you from buying an oven (and the toy stores so you can't even buy an Easy Bake Oven) and with realtors so you can't buy your own bakery...
Yep that's a very apt comparison.
When phrased that way it sounds ridiculous and nightmarish, and people immediately are repulsed by the idea. Sadly, the left isn't willing to see it because they're too busy jerking themselves off about how evil "le drumpfh" is and how this is a win for them.
I think there's also a disconnect because there isn't really a physical object being exchanged, it's more access to something. So there might be less of an understanding that something is being denied in a way that has been agreed is wrong in comparable situations.
Saved locally, because it's a proper spelling out of what the true situation here is.
Make no mistake, i personally don't have issue with it even when put like this because i see long-term and understand that those actions will have consequences for big tech, but i'd like a leftie to try and pretend it's completely ok then, just for sheer hilarity.
Very good explanation, well said!