Anyone feel judged if they shop at a white owned business instead of black owned right now?

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell does Yelp know the race of the people who own these businesses? I'm thinking through the local businesses I go to and I don't know if I've ever met the owners, much less know what race they are. I mostly interact with wait staff or the cashiers.

I would much rather yelp rated whether they paid a living wage, health insurance, weren’t an ass to work for - I don’t care about the race but might care (and pay more) if they treated their employees well.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll shop where I please. Don't care who judges.

So sick of this race war.

So weird. If I said can you please support black owned businesses you say it is a race war.

If I say can you please support breast cancer do you get angry and say "ill support prostate cancer" with such ire?

you are making this a war.

DP. I wouldn't call it a race war. However, your analogy is not really correct. If the breast cancer people are judging and shaming you for supporting prostate cancer, then you have an analogy.

That's what PP was talking about. You can suggest how/where people shop, but the moment you start judging/shaming people for living their lives, you're bound to get ire.

Let's see... here is OP's post... with cancer instead of race

I felt it on two separate occasions recently. I was talking with a friend and mentioned I went to walk for leukemia on Saturday. She asked if I had missed her FB post about a walk for breast cancer. I said I hadn’t but I walking for leukemia. She just said” hm” and moved on.

Tonight I was talking with my neighbor and mentioned walking for leukemia yesterday. She said walked for breast cancer and was only supporting breast cancer events for the foreseeable future.

It seems so fake to me but are others really doing this?

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell does Yelp know the race of the people who own these businesses? I'm thinking through the local businesses I go to and I don't know if I've ever met the owners, much less know what race they are. I mostly interact with wait staff or the cashiers.

I would much rather yelp rated whether they paid a living wage, health insurance, weren’t an ass to work for - I don’t care about the race but might care (and pay more) if they treated their employees well.

You should suggest that to Yelp.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone in our neighborhood organized a food pick up for anyone interested, from a black owned restaurant in DC. I ordered dinner for my family. The food was supposed to be ready at 5:30 - it wasn’t ready until 7:30, one of my items was missing, and the food we got wasn’t very good. So no, I will not be choosing based upon the race of the owner. Didn’t really go well for us.

In the middle of the pandemic I ordered food from the Cheesecake Factory (not a fan, but the kid wanted it), food showed up 2 hours late, was cold, 2 of the items were missing, french fries and the cheese cake.

I called to complain, was told buy the white girl who answered the phone and the white manager, that it wasn't their fault, blamed it on the delivery driver, said they probably ate the food. When I suggested that perhaps, due to the unusual circumstances that they made a mistake, they replied no, not us. Blamed, their incompetence on the delivery guy who just so happened to be black, and apparently a thief.

You would think that the big corporate guys, with the resources to hire/retain competent staff, would have been able to figure out how to get it right, but no. Just a bunch of incompetent idiots.

How exactly did you determine the skin color of TWO employees ON the phone? Face Time? Also, was the female with whom you spoke 12 or younger? Assuming because you referred to her as a "girl" that she must be a child. I'm certain you meant "woman" or better yet, "employee."

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Anonymous wrote:What seems fake to you about supporting black-owned businesses?

I wouldn't say it is fake, but it's likely racist.You just discriminated against a business owner due to the color of their skin.

That is not discrimination.

By the very literal definition of the word, it is discrimination. But it’s discrimination that we as a society (or at least part of our society) have decided is okay, or even necessary,, to support minorities. At this moment we’re choosing one minority group over a host of others, which some may see fault with.

No it isn't. Refusing to support a certain group due to their race is discrimination. Being aware that there are many types of people with businesses and making sure you equally support all of them is not discrimination. nobody has said, don't support Asian businesses. What they are saying is be aware of black owned businesses in your area and support them equally.

I’d agree with you, except that the Yelp filter literally discriminated against all business that aren’t black-owned. If it showed you all businesses fitting the search criteria, but then included a banner that was like “hey, support black business! We’ve put stars by those”! Then I think it would be less discriminatory. To be clear, I don’t have an issue with what Yelp is doing, I just think that it’s discrimination (by the literal sense of the word) in a moment when one minority group needs support.

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Anonymous wrote:What seems fake to you about supporting black-owned businesses?

I wouldn't say it is fake, but it's likely racist.You just discriminated against a business owner due to the color of their skin.

That is not discrimination.

By the very literal definition of the word, it is discrimination. But it’s discrimination that we as a society (or at least part of our society) have decided is okay, or even necessary,, to support minorities. At this moment we’re choosing one minority group over a host of others, which some may see fault with.

No it isn't. Refusing to support a certain group due to their race is discrimination. Being aware that there are many types of people with businesses and making sure you equally support all of them is not discrimination. nobody has said, don't support Asian businesses. What they are saying is be aware of black owned businesses in your area and support them equally.

I’d agree with you, except that the Yelp filter literally discriminated against all business that aren’t black-owned. If it showed you all businesses fitting the search criteria, but then included a banner that was like “hey, support black business! We’ve put stars by those”! Then I think it would be less discriminatory. To be clear, I don’t have an issue with what Yelp is doing, I just think that it’s discrimination (by the literal sense of the word) in a moment when one minority group needs support.

Again. It’s only discrimination if they refuse to make other filters when asked to do so.

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Anonymous wrote:This worries me less than people who are spending $5k at Home Depot rather than Lowe’s.

Why? I just ordered $2000+ worth of stuff at Lowes.

I’m glad you bought at Lowe’s! That’s my point.

But why? (I bought at Lowes just because I found better stuff there)

Because Home Depot gave a bunch of money to Trump; Lowe's gave a bunch of money to minority and women-owned businesses, and Lowe's has a black (male) CEO.

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I use the ones who provide best quality at the best price. End of story. All this support this or that and get mediocre quality for your money is not for me.

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We have been telling people not to judge someone by race or their skin color. Now we are picking a business based on the race of its owner. It's so racist.

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Anonymous wrote:We have been telling people not to judge someone by race or their skin color. Now we are picking a business based on the race of its owner. It's so racist.

What would MLK do? Booker T. Washington?

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Anonymous wrote:We have been telling people not to judge someone by race or their skin color. Now we are picking a business based on the race of its owner. It's so racist.

It’s remediation for the government policies that harmed black-owned businesses.

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Anonymous wrote:This worries me less than people who are spending $5k at Home Depot rather than Lowe’s.

Why? I just ordered $2000+ worth of stuff at Lowes.

I’m glad you bought at Lowe’s! That’s my point.

But why? (I bought at Lowes just because I found better stuff there)

Because Home Depot gave a bunch of money to Trump; Lowe's gave a bunch of money to minority and women-owned businesses, and Lowe's has a black (male) CEO.

Low information voter.

Now with more context: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lowes-versus-home-depot-meme/

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Anonymous wrote:This worries me less than people who are spending $5k at Home Depot rather than Lowe’s.

Why? I just ordered $2000+ worth of stuff at Lowes.

I’m glad you bought at Lowe’s! That’s my point.

But why? (I bought at Lowes just because I found better stuff there)

Because Home Depot gave a bunch of money to Trump; Lowe's gave a bunch of money to minority and women-owned businesses, and Lowe's has a black (male) CEO.

Low information voter.

Now with more context: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lowes-versus-home-depot-meme/

Uhh...your link confirms what PP said...?

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The amount of people that go to Target and Walmart is astounding. What about Disney.

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Anonymous wrote:This worries me less than people who are spending $5k at Home Depot rather than Lowe’s.

Why? I just ordered $2000+ worth of stuff at Lowes.

I’m glad you bought at Lowe’s! That’s my point.

But why? (I bought at Lowes just because I found better stuff there)

Because Home Depot gave a bunch of money to Trump; Lowe's gave a bunch of money to minority and women-owned businesses, and Lowe's has a black (male) CEO.

Low information voter.

Now with more context: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lowes-versus-home-depot-meme/

Uhh...your link confirms what PP said...?

Did you read the article???

The Home Depot political action committee on the other hand has contributed a total of $1,495,000 to both Democratic and Republican federal candidates in 2020, with 44% of those contributions going to Democrats and 56% to Republicans, according to the campaign transparency tracking tool Open Secrets.

Meantime the political action committee for Lowe’s donated a total of $540,500 to federal candidates in both parties, with 30% going to Democrats and 70% to Republicans, per Open Secrets.