Yelp will now identify businesses accused of racism on its platform

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  1. FreshAir

    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    if it's just people telling their experiences, then you want them to be silenced

    if a business wants to discriminate, they should have to advertise it or lose their business license
     
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    Only on the left is accusation enough.
     
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    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    You seriously don't see how such a system is ripe for abuse?

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    ~ How very communist of them. [​IMG]
     
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  5. FreshAir

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    yep, post a picture, link, video and let the world know, you want facebook and twitter to censor them?

    you go after the poster, just like everyone that posted about #pizzagate, not the place they posted that nonsense
     
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    I do not. I do see a problem with what you are doing.

    And if this is a retraction I think you should be more explicit.
     
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    Yelp's gonna get sued into bankruptcy.
     
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    Nothing I have read here indicates that it's a concern for anybody other than witches.
     
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    I can think of many businesses, well former businesses because BLM and friends burned them down, that might feel discriminated against...
     
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    Should the Salem witch trials have been concerning for anyone other than witches?
     
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    Salem witch trials were fanatics judging normal people. This is about normal people judging fanatics.
     
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    Your opinions about who are the "fanatics" and who are the "normal people" (in today's society) aren't universally agreed upon. Do you see how that's a problem? For example, here are some of the people that I think are "fanatics" and you probably think are "normal" that will be doing the judging:

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    Golem Well-Known Member Donor

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    I know. White supremacists don't agree that white supremacists are not "normal people".

    But, believe me, they aren't.

    As for the rest, I happen to think that qualifying people as normal or not normal just because of how they look, is quite bigoted. Much worse if it's based on a photo.
     
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    If that’s the case, then black-owned businesses had better watch the “white boy” comments inside their establishments whenever a white person frequents their place of business. If racism is as systemic as leftists love to say now, then I can see how this has the potential to backfire drastically for Yelp. We all saw how BLM rioted so indiscriminately this past summer, burning down even black-owned businesses.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnew...t-responded-burned-protests/story?id=71049195
     
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    People that burn down businesses and clash with police are not normal, they are fanatics, like just about everyone on the left these days...
     
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    Fine! White people should be free to avoid businesses that are affliated and support Maxist BLM. The NBA is having a TOUGH! time right now and their Ratings are going in the Tank, shouldn't be long before these Basketball players start doing BackFlips when the the American National Anthem is played and denouncing the Chinese Government when their beloved American Dollars are threatened. I'll NEVER! Watch NBA Basketball and any business that supports BLM, they can rely on the Black Community and Antifa to support them:roflol: because I'll take my Money elsewhere and just keep walkin. When I hire someone, I HIRE! the BEST and neither of the People or businesses who support those groups are worth a **** as far as I'm concerned. I'm also a Landlord and will NEVER rent to anyone that I get even the slightest idea that they support these groups and are going to to put up any of those Stupid BLM signs on my property.
     
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    Leftist fanatics don't agree that they're leftist fanatics. They do, however, have a habit of labeling anyone that disagree with them as "white supremacists", oftentimes without any evidence to support the accusation.
     
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    These are ALL! un-employable people, if you had a business would you HIRE! any of these Dirtbags. I'd walk in and walk RIGHT! back out if I saw any of these Clowns working at a business I went into. THAT'S why they embrace Socialism, because they want Government to take Money from the Hard working, Law abiding tax payers and give it to their Lazy Asses, because they've created themselves into Garbage People.
     
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    Wow, in order to know that you must be acquainted with a lot of so called white supremacists.

    But tell me, since you know them so well, what exactly is a white supremacist? What are their beliefs, where do they congregate, can you show me their website? Again, what exactly is a white supremacist and why do you think they're superior? I would never call the racist terrorists known as blm anything that remotely resembles some kind of superiority or supremacy.

    While we're on descriptions, the left frequently says the police and others profile black people, so now I'm asking to tell me what that profile is? You see, in order to throw out there that someone is profiling blacks, the person making the accusation must believe the profile is negative and applies to all blacks. Remind me again who the racists are.
     
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    Spin....

    When millions of people use something...
     
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    Why should I believe you?

    Seems to me that the entire US was and still largely is, White Supremacist.
     
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    This isn't a partisan issue by any means, most folks seem to have a problem with this regardless of ideology according to various sites and forums. The problem is that Yelp has a history of abuse on their platform with a few documented cases of flat out extortion.

    In an era of actual civil unrest in America with businesses already being randomly burned down by the thousands it's pretty irresponsible for a widely known review company to say they will do something like this. I could see some massive lawsuits coming if a business gets tagged with a big R by Yelp and is then subsequently vandalized. Best thing for Americans to do is to come together and collectively devalue the legitimacy of Yelp and turn to other more reputable review sites for information about businesses.
     
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    Looks like we are going to shut down Google
    #SiliconValleySoWhite: Black Facebook and Google employees speak out on big tech racism

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...sts-facebook-google-employees-say/4307591002/
     

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