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Will office depot print my neo-nazi propaganda? I always thought they'd refuse but now am considering otherwise./s
Seems like they have to or risk being fired.
Fascism is Capitalism's immune system. The wealthy use it to protect their grip on society, particularly when large scale factors like a pandemic, war, or poor leadership put that grip at risk it.
I might be in the minority here, and I have lost zero sleep over Kirk’s death, but I don’t really want or need Staples/Office Depot workers to decide what should and should not be considered propaganda, and therefore printable material.
Just print my shit.
I kind of feel like this is kind of one of those rare cases where we should ideally be letting the free market do its thing.
If a print shop, bakery, etc. wants to refuse your business on ideological grounds like this, you take your business elsewhere and tell everyone else to do the same.
It of course kind of falls apart with big companies like office Depot, where they've often driven all of the local competition out of business and someone can just keep running their complaint up the corporate chain of command until they reach a soulless bean-counter who only sees dollar signs.
If a print shop, bakery, etc. wants to refuse your business on ideological grounds like this, you take your business elsewhere and tell everyone else to do the same.
Except then you run into the issue of all the print shops / bakeries / whatever in, say, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, refusing black patrons work on "ideological grounds"
Like they don't have corporate rules for printing already. Guarantee you could easily find the limit for what the bosses consider propaganda.
Kirk face on Nazi uniform.
Y'all motherfuckers need a Union!
The optics on this are crazy. Sure the worker refused to do their job, but Office Depot could have used way more tact. I have no sympathy for whatever happens to them, but that can be said of all corporations.
Good to see people taking a stand against this monster.
Sue them. Sue them good and hard.
If I ever were to go to Office Depot I sure wouldn't now. I guess my 40 year streak will continue.
Good for them. They did the right thing and will find work from a local who catches this.
Office Depot gonna take a small hit for this one. Target has had it rough too from all angles.