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In reply to the discussion: Abercrombie & Fitch Faces Protests, Backlash for Not Selling Larger Sizes [View all]TygrBright
(21,359 posts)26. Thanks, YES. I'm all in favor of "mobs taking away a private corporation's liberty."
I think that we mobs (also known as "citizens," "communities," "neighbors," etc., should be able to take away that private corporation fertilizer dealer in Texas' liberty to store hazardous materials.
I think that we should be able to take away:
- Private resource extraction companies' liberty to acquire control of vast amounts of non-renewable resources and exploit them without regard to the well being of the shared environment, the health of their workers, and the future of human life on this planet.
- Private housing development corporations' liberty to only sell houses to people of the skin color they prefer.
- Private recreation/entertainment corporations' liberty to turn away families with gay members.
- Private food corporations' liberty to shovel any kind of creepy processed substances into a container and sell it as edible without telling us what's in it, where it came from, and how it was processed.
- Private education corporations' liberty to purchase politicians, create astroturf propaganda mills, and compete unfairly with public schools in the area of staff compensation, student selection, and dozens of other areas.
- Private pharmaceutical corporations' liberty to make tiny cosmetic changes in the composition or structure of a medication that's about to run off-patent, and re-patent it and market it as an entirely new and expensive medication without telling us that it's functionally no different at all from the about-to-be generic substance.
- Private banking corporations' liberty to process huge numbers of legal filings against mortgage and credit card holders using electronic signature machines and no due diligence.
- Private prison corporations' liberty to use lobbying muscle to pass laws and demand enforcement that results in the world's highest incarceration rate.
Oh, the list can go on and on and on.
Yep. Take those "liberties" away NOW.
I think the liberty of my grandchild to grow up in a safe, healthy world where we care more about each others' well-being than about the profits of our Beloved Oligarchs trumps the "liberty" of private corporations to bend us over and buttfuck us without lube, thanks so very much.
Yep. All in favor of it.
adamantly,
Bright
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Abercrombie & Fitch Faces Protests, Backlash for Not Selling Larger Sizes [View all]
Jake Izzy
May 2013
OP
Well, if they don't want to sell their clothing to 67% of U.S. consumers
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2013
#2
It's not just that they don't sell those sizes. It is their stated reasons for doing so.
antigone382
May 2013
#49
Thanks, YES. I'm all in favor of "mobs taking away a private corporation's liberty."
TygrBright
May 2013
#26
Got it in one. The freedom to "sell to whatever market" is not/should not be a protected liberty.
TygrBright
May 2013
#50
Yeah, like the average sized guy running the "Fitch the Homeless" campaign...
antigone382
May 2013
#54
Did he use the word "losers"? Or did he just describe his target market? (nt)
Nye Bevan
May 2013
#66
What a stupid campaign. Why can't companies choose which niche they wish to market to?
Nye Bevan
May 2013
#65