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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus
So what's your position, Rick? Should businesses be free to choose? If so, that's a classic conservative position. If not free to choose whom they serve, well, that's DeSantis' proposal.
Me, no, I don't believe businesses have the right to deprive people of basic human rights. And I don't care if they are "private." The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are "people" because individual humans are behind corporate decisions to grant or withhold equal treatment.
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Actually, it was your question to answer. And now we see that you mean "they should be free to choose (well, except when there are exceptions, that is)".
See, the problem you have is that you want to paint DeSantis with this broad brush, claiming he's being anti-conservative somehow. But he doesn't see this as a "freedom to choose for businesses" issue. He sees it as a governmental intrusion issue on
the people. DeSantis was elected by
the people of Florida,
not the private businesses of Florida. He's saying
the people have the right to choose, unencumbered by other concerns.
You're free to disagree with his point of view, of course. But it's a little odd that not requiring his state's residents to have to show a vaccination passport is somehow anti-conservative. Well, that is unless you buy into the notion that conservative folks only care about businesses and not individuals.
Side note: your note to the mods to retire this thread because people aren't getting it is due to the way you wrote part of the post:
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Conservatives are not fond of government interference in general, but they support this proposal.
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What proposal? Having a vaccine passport? Yes, we know now you actually meant DeSantis's "proposal" to prohibit requiring a vaccine passport in the state. You've had to clarify what you meant more than once, when simply editing the original post could have sufficed.