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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The baker doesn't need to ask for redemption. That's preposterous.
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The NPR story -- you know, the one
you posted -- quoted him as asking for redemption. Hell, the whole story is about him looking for redemption. So you should argue with him.
And, yes, it sounds like he does need to ask for redemption, both because he says he does, and because it sounds like the bakery's catering director, his daughter, said some things about the community in which he does business that upset people a lot.
Since you have posted articles that neither explain what she said, nor explain how people in the community responded, it's hard for me to say how I'd react to the former, or whether the latter was over the top. As to the latter, there are a lot of bakeries out there. Why would you go to one that seems bigoted when you can go to another that isn't?
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The social justice warriors, and let's be clear about this - most of these people have nothing else much going on in their lives, which is why they join these mobs - won't have that. They want to tear him down. Ruin the guy.
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I don't know how you would know that, since you don't seem to have read anything that identifies who these anti-bakery "social justice warriors" are or what they said. It's just another example of your preferring to tilt at a windmill, a caricature of your own making, rather than actual things actual people are saying.
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Why? It is inescapable that they do this in significant part for the same reason rural losers in trailer parks cheer along with Trump when he "owns the libs": They have no success of their own. The only currency they have is moral judgment and the exhilaration of for the first time in their lives being part of a group that can exercise some power (through online shaming and boycotting). They can't make successes of themselves, so their only way of evening the playing field is to try to ruin the success of this businessman.
You won't see many smart, successful people engaged in these mob behaviors. They've got jobs and hobbies. They have lives.
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You're quite inventive.
