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Yelp will now identify businesses accused of racism on its platform

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  1. Pycckia

    Pycckia Well-Known Member

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    Why do you bother with doing research? You never use it to bolster your arguments.
     
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    Do you believe that a "public attention alert" may harm a business?

    According to Yelp themselves as quoted here in order for a business to receive a "public attention alert" all I have to do is have me and a few buddies contact Yelp and say that drive thru window guy at my local McDonalds was racist and they will put that up until someone can provide evidence from a "credible media outlet" at which point they will upgrade it to a "racist behavior alert".

    I'm pretty sure having any sort of "alert" regarding racism next to your business name will harm your business whether it's the so called less severe "public attention" or credible "racist behavior" version.
     
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    Does planned parenthood have a Yelp listing?

    Asking for a friend
     
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    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    Yup. At least the local one around my neck of the woods does.

    It seriously won't take very long to see if a trend develops with this whole thing regarding what type of business is involved. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if Yelp actually implements this fairly or if only certain types of businesses magically receive way more red exclamation points next to their names.

    And if/when only certain types of businesses get whacked by this thing then of course it won't be because Yelp isn't being fair but rather because only certain types of businesses are being "reported". "We promise".
     
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    Yeah. Leftists don't believe in guns. They're all "peaceful". Only "white supremacists" shoot and kill people.


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    #denvershooting
     
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    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    So Dylann Roof doesn't count as a right wing lunatic then.

    Got it.
     
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    Creasy Tvedt, Oct 11, 2020
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    I hope that you have a sparse company of other, so called, "warriors," who think that LYING in order to maliciously damage an AMERICAN BUSINESS is, "fun;" and who are so foolish as to not realize, or not care, that such damage has REPECUSSIONS on people & businesses BEYOND the one targeted. Most business are willing to do business w/ any business that benefits them, regardless of those other business owners' political beliefs. And most consumers are willing to patronize a business that provides a quality product or service, or which saves them money over comparable competing products/services, without regard to the politics of the owner.

    Sure, hurting those businesses couldn't possibly hurt a local economy, or American business activity overall, no matter the size or number of businesses you virtuous warriors, "falsely...accuse(d)--" your words-- or be a negative for ANYONE who shares YOUR VIEW of the world, right? I think it's been scientifically proven that those w/, "progressive values," make the worst pizza (& cheesecake), and are the lousiest, and most dishonest, carpenters & auto mechanics.

    On a different note, be prepared to have this post of yours quoted the next time I see you, in any forum, maintain any moral or ethical superiority for those who share your values, which allow you to hypocritically justify, "falsely and maliciously accus(ing)," business owners, who are so infallibly marked as evil ones by, "seem(ing) to virtue signal progressive values," that to, "accuse them of the most vile racism, sexism, bigotry...that can be imagined," is excusable. I'll end w/ noting that, "bearing false witness," is a violation of one of the 10 Commandments (which are basic precepts, for the most part, that are accepted HUMAN NORMS for ethical, legal, & decent behavior, regardless of religious affiliation) & that the word diabolic comes from the term for the Devil, Diabolos, translating to a widely accepted symbolism for Evil: SLANDERER.
     
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    It occurs to me that your righteous indignation would be better directed at the leftist lunatics that have been actively engaged in destroying, looting and burning real world businesses for months on end now, rather than at some internet rando making flippant plans to abuse Yelp's dumb scarlet letter business shaming scheme.
     
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    Yet BLM is a black supremacist group; or “idea” if you will, so no liberal feelings will get hurt here. So any business that promotes or sells BLM paraphernalia or ideology must be branded as racist on Yelp, according to these new rules that the Woke leftists are pushing on to us.
     
    zelmo73, Oct 11, 2020
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    Steve N, LoneStarGal and Have at it like this.
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    Thanks for planning my actions to make the most efficient use of my life, for me, but I think I'd rather take charge of that, myself (provided, of course, it's all right with you).
     
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  11. Creasy Tvedt

    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    You do you, pal.

    Anytime you need some good guidance, bud, I'm here for you.
     
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    I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. My reply was to a poster advocating the fabricating of lies about American businesses. I have no problem with you posting on Yelp that a business, "promotes or sells BLM paraphernalia or ideology," provided that is true.
     
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    I appreciate it, and I hope I can return the favor, if asked.
     
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    I certainly won’t bother with Yelp anymore that’s for sure. No chance of this being abused. No chance:)

    As legitimate as YouTube’s or Twitters qualifiers for racism. Which means Leftist insanity.
     
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    I'm with you (and Gutfeld) on that. No need to advance cancel culture.

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    YELP just turned its platform into a political partisan farce.

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    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    Thank you.

    I require guidance.

    Is Dylann Roof a right wing fanatic or an individual nut?
     
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    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    So tired of this crap.

    I just want to know where to get a decent slice of pizza, and suddenly I'm tangled up in a witch hunt for Illinois Nazis.

    The progressive left is just exhausting.
     
    Creasy Tvedt, Oct 11, 2020
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    Thank you very much for this very well thought out post.

    Please hold these same sentiments when a local business is red flagged by Yelp with a "public attention alert" as a "Business accused of racist behavior" via word of mouth only.

    I'm glad someone else understands the huge PROBLEM with this asinine policy that Yelp has just implemented. They key word and elephant in the room is the word you posted in all caps. "LYING" is going to be a huge problem. And the bigger problem is the fact that Yelp is a private business who gets to pick and choose which "reports" they wish to acknowledge. They have given THEMSELVES their own filter to determine who gets the red tag and who doesn't and there is no way to independently verify whether or not Yelp is acknowledging all reports or cherry picking the ones that personally agree with their own agenda. Yelp themselves have the power to determine who is and is not LYING.

    Thats why people brought up the whole Planned Parenthood thing. Abortion is a pretty cut and dry partisan issue. If somebody reports their local Planned Parenthood to Yelp for "racism" will Yelp publish that or not? NOBODY knows because nobody but Yelp knows which reports they acknowledge. So what folks are saying is well lets test Yelps authenticity. Yelp has just publicly acknowledged their stance on "social issues" with this policy in general. They are Left leaning in regards to that. So will they fairly implement this new policy across all spectrums or will they not? Will they ignore reports against businesses with a Left leaning ideology?

    It's not hard to test their own system and its authenticity. If we start seeing primarily Conservative businesses being whacked with this red flag from Yelp then we will know they are 100% biased and full of crap and this system of theirs is being deliberately used as a weapon and they are allowing it. The articles will start to flow out within months and we will start seeing the media interviewing the owners of businesses that get the red flag from Yelp. I guarantee it, the first few businesses who get red flagged are going to have cameras in their face or at least articles written about the owners having been interviewed. We will see who these people are. If there is a trend in a specific direction then we will know the truth. If roughly equal "types" of businesses and business owners are effected by this then we will know Yelp is being fair and honest. Not equal numbers of businesses, equal types, and here is why.

    To be fair the numbers are going to be skewed in a specific direction and we all know that if we are being honest. Out of the two major sides of the aisle in America there is one side in particular who is way more likely to call something racist than the other. So my guess is that this system is primarily going to be used by that side of the aisle with the other side not doing it as much because they don't see racism in everything.

    And therein lies the problem and now I'll cut the "philosophical" talk and say what everybody is thinking. The Left calls stuff racist 916x more often than the Right. The Left is going to be who uses this system way more than the Right which means the majority of the businesses getting slapped with the red flag will likely be owned by Conservative leaning folks. Even if Yelp is genuinely "fair" with this thing it will still be the Left using it way more often because the Right just doesn't do stuff like this as much. The problem is going to be figuring out if Yelp is directing traffic or not. Even if this is a system that we all know is going to be primarily used by one side I still would like to know what role Yelp themselves is playing in this.

    Are they willing to slap this red flag on something as partisan cut and dry as a Planned Parenthood or not? Nobody knows but them and nobody would know unless there is clear documented evidence that reports have been made to a business like that and Yelp refuses to publish it. I'm not advocating folks start bombarding Yelp with false reports about the local Planned Parenthood or anything, but Yelp needs to openly publish each and every single report they get involving this new policy for open consumer review and then we can see which businesses they are flagging based on raw reports and which they are not. That is the only way to independently verify the authenticity of this system of theirs.
     
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    I just looked him up, since I hadn't committed his name to memory, though I do recall the church bible study shooting, of which he's been convicted. I'm guessing you don't have such confidence in my powers of insight-- at least not yet-- to be asking for me to give you a psychological analysis, but only wondering how I, as a citizen, would classify him, limited to the 2 options you offered. The closer of those to the truth, given only my basic level of information about him, is the latter of your choices: "an individual nut."

    (His sister Morgan's not half-bad looking, though, huh? For what it's worth).
     
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    "Individual nut" is the call.

    Sorry, @Golem, you just lost a right wing extremist heavy hitter.

    Morgan Roof?

    Yikes!

    Update-Mugshot-Morgan-Roof-Sister-of-Charleston-Church-image.jpg

    Whew.
    I thought you were laying the jailbait trap on me there for a second.

    Meh, I'll give her about a six.
     
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    I don't normally use Yelp! Actually I haven't ever used them. If I want a slice of pizza, I go where I know where a good slice of pizza is.
     
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    But what if you're in Milan or Venice or Elksnout, Montana? How will you know if your pepperoni slice is being served by the racist hand of a Boogaloo Nazi?

    How, dammit?! How?!
     
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