The Cake Case Revisited

[Rev. Rye]

In an ideal political climate, bigoted bakers should be allowed to do whatever they want and let their businesses fail because the invisible hand of the public rejects their bigoted bullshit.

Alas, we don't live in that ideal political climate. That invisible hand does not exist and all that results is we end up further Balkanized than we already are.

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A boycott of the bigoted baker (I alliteration) would be the most efficient way to solve this particular case.

The Montgomery bus boycott back in the 1950s (started when Rosa Parks famously sat up front) led to a SCOTUS decision that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

Alas, we Americans are too apathetic, lazy or both to get involved in boycotts. Clicking "like" on Facebook is what passes for activism these days.
I won't eat at Chick Fil A because of the owner's bigoted views on my LGBT friends and I don't shop at Hobby Lobby because they insist on monitoring my (and all women's) vagina and uterus. I also won't eat at a local ice cream parlor chain because the owners proudly contributed to the anti-gay marriage initiative in our state a few years ago.

-Teresa

That and open bigotry is becoming more and more mainstream in America. Remember how stores like Hobby Lobby and Chick Fil A got a new bunch of customers after coming out as being run by blatant homophobes or jackasses who think it's imperative to deny access to birth control via HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS? Conservatives complain about liberals who "Virtue signal" but what does that make the conservatives who make a big show of supporting stores that have recently become notorious for fighting to deny people of their human rights? Well, "dickishness signalling" maybe, but do you think they'll openly admit they're assholes?

The big problem with boycotting is that it requires a huge level of buy-in to work properly. Even if everyone who disagreed with their politics made a conscious choice to not make money, you can't guarantee it won't become successful with the bigots who'll come out of the woodwork to support it.

In the end, a successful boycott may rely too much on an "Invisible Hand of Basic Human Decency" to really be effective.