Can Someone Explain To Me Why A BUSINESS Owner Would Want To Turn Away BUSINESS?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

It's anti-Capitalist. It's antithetical to the very notion of owning a business in the first place. And a lot of these businesses you hear about doing this stuff (a small bakery, a wedding website designer, etc.) sound like SMALL business just struggling to make it. Sounds to me like they might have been put up to it by someone else. Maybe someone with a lot of money. Maybe with assurances that they'd be well compensated for the business they lose by closing their doors to patrons.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I can think of NO other reason why a business owner would refuse BUSINESS. As a business owner, you live in FEAR of negative word of mouth (which is why "the customer is always right" came to be in the first place). These people don't seem to care. Doesn't smell right to me.

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Because that's how bigoted they are.

I have a small business, and I am sure that some of my customers are republicon nuts. I've occasionally had the chance to inject reason to question what they think (such as grocery store owners who want to cut the food stamp program) but generally they don't make their politics known, so as long as their checks clear . . .

So these assholes are just bigoted "karen" types.

[2naSalit]

2. Probably so.

It was hypothetical which is against SCOTUS' purview. They are supposed to address actual problems, not pretend ones like this case was. There is no business that makes wedding web site, there is no customer whom she would have turned away and there is no harm to anyone so it's pure bullshit and they think we won't do anything about that.

[Bluethroughu]

3. I think your nose is on to something.

There is another thread that explains the stench.
https://democraticunderground.com/100218053987#post4

[calguy]

4. Just heard on Lawrence's show that the so called 'web designer'

was never asked to design a website by a gay couple.
I have to admit, I haven't followed this particular case, so all I know is bits and pieces I've heard hear and there.

The premise of the comments were that rich right, wing extremists are searching out cases to to bring before this court because they feel they can win anything put before this corrupt and biased Supreme Court.

I suspect we'll hear a lot more about this in the future, but given that these unelected zealots have lifetime appointments, they're beholden only to those who pay them their bribes, and there's not a hell of a lot we can do about it.

[msfiddlestix]

5. my gut says it was a ruse to gain significant attention for profit

So many profitable options after this level of massive media attention.

[Hekate]

6. Remember the lunch-counter sit-ins? This SCOTUS ruling was written broadly enough that we...

…could easily find ourselves with segregated public spaces again.

Turning away business is what bigots do, because it gives them that warm glow of being the “right sort of people” who are better than, and have power over, the “wrong sort of people.”

College students who integrated public lunch-counter space by simply sitting in that space had pots of hot coffee poured over their heads, among other things.

The Dirty Half-Dozen are vile throwbacks.

[MichMan]

7. I recall the Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Va. that refused to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders

and other Trump officials. They were widely praised for taking that stance.

[kelly1mm]

10. political ideology is not a protected class. I you want to say no Democrats allowed

(or no Republicans allowed) in your establishment you are free to do so (at least federally).

[MichMan]

15. No one is claiming it is and neither did the OP's question

The OP merely asked why would a business owner want to turn away business? Some do for a myriad of reasons, including the restaurant I mentioned.

Did you see any mention of a protected class in the OP, because I didn't.

[Freethinker65]

8. Because they do business in a predominantly bigoted area

They believe pandering to bigots, by proving they themselves are intolerant bigots, will bring them more business from the multitudes of bigots nearby that will seek them out.


On the plus side, now that it is declared legal to be a public bigot and refuse service based upon inconsistent hypocritical beliefs, the go fund me option is taken away.

[Skittles]

9. with them, the cruelty often is the point

look how they consistently they vote against their own self-interests

[JI7]

11. I think this was partly an attempt to gain customers that are anti gay

[jcgoldie]

12. hate is a deeper motivator than $

[RockRaven]

13. When they are a liar/grifter who can make more money playing a victim than making a sale?

It's no conspiracy theory to point out an asshole is an asshole.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

14. Religion can cause that

A person may believe that their God will bring their business wealth if they do things that pleases their God.
Perhaps they think their God will bring them bad health and poverty if they go against the wishes they believe that God has.
Maybe they believe they will go to hell if they don't follow the wishes they believe their God has.

All of these things explain why a business owner would want to turn away business.

[MichMan]

16. The Customer is NOT always right

I hate that phrase.

Sometimes the customer acts like an entitled flaming asshole and is far more trouble than they are ever worth.

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. I turn away business. I pet sit. I turn away people.

Not based on race or religion or politics. I only work for nice people . There are lots of nice people out there.

I would quit if the law forced me to take everyone walking in the door.

[Kaleva]

23. I've told some customers to go to hell

They were jerks and weren't worth my time. I didn't lose money since I had other customers I could do work for

[Effete Snob]

26. Yep

I don’t think the OP has ever run a business.

There are plenty of people not worth the money.

[Emile]

18. Because they use their business as a front for a tax write-off

and making a profit would only end up costing them?

[Model35mech]

19. Radical religious bigotry makes people moneyblind???

[dembotoz]

20. being a bigot can and does build some business

for example
those anti woke razor blades i see all over facebook
may or may not be a shit product but click here to order....wonder if it includes flag band aids.....

my sister in law only eats at chick fila when she travels.....she and her husband actually plan their rest stops around the location map for that chain.....too bad you have to pee...next stop is only 40 minutes away.


if you can harness it bigotry sells

[W_HAMILTON]

21. Ever heard of that famous quote from Lyndon B. Johnson?

It tells you all you need to know about the Republican mindset.

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

Except in this case, substitute LGBT for "colored." The hatred comes from the same place. Their racist and bigoted hatred means more to them than making money -- after all, how many of them happily part ways with their money to support their favorite racist and bigoted Republican?

[Kaleva]

22. Refusing some business may prevent losing more business

[allegorical oracle]

24. The SC decision seemed to be treating web site designing as though it's a preciously artistic

endeavor deserving special reverence. I personally know a half dozen website designers.

If Smith indeed has a design business, she's just lost a ton of customers. Personally believe her hypothetical lawsuit served only one purpose: to achieve this particular SC ruling.

[eppur_se_muova]

25. Bigotry trumps greed. nt