Heretics not allowed

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4 responses to “Heretics not allowed”

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   Freemage

   Sep 7, 2026 3:31 PM

   Sorry, Ophelia, there’s no law on your side, here*–a bar is not ‘a public space’ like a park or city sidewalk. Rather, it’s still considered a private space that is open to the public. The only rules regarding such spaces are that you cannot discriminate based on protected attributes, like race and sex. Political opinions do not fall into that category.

   *: One of those protected categories, for the record, is religion. If one could first make an argument that trans ideology is a religious belief based on the notion of gendered souls, then that would open up the bar to essentially denying service on religious grounds–since the bar’s purpose is not advancing trans ideology specifically, that would make it the equivalent of denying service for wearing a Darwin Fish t-shirt because you don’t like atheists.
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   Ophelia Benson

   Sep 7, 2026 4:32 PM

   Fortunately I was sly enough to say I think it might not be [italics not in original]. I also got roundly schooled for being less cautious about it on Facebook.
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   Holms

   Sep 8, 2026 4:06 AM

   The cowardice of the complainer/s is what bugs me most. Nobody liked the tattle-tale in school, no one likes the one community-living resident that takes notes on who has how many visitors… but the gender politics movement has been right up their alley.
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   iknklast

   Sep 8, 2026 8:37 AM

   While political opinion is not a protected characteristic, I believe it should be. If we want freedom of speech, we have to have freedom of speech. Unfortunately, most people only protest restrictions of speech when it is speech they don’t like. By not protecting political speech in the same way that other speech is protected, we run the risk of monocultures, of living in bubbles, and of never hearing the other side. In fact, that’s what’s getting us into all this trouble now.