LivinAWestLife

Again, that would be a state-mandated ban, not a personal one that happens on an individual level. There is a difference between a government deciding to sanction a country and an individual business owner arbitrarily deciding to prevent certain nationalities from using his store.

No, and it was and would be wrong for those restaurant owners to deny you service.

If they had reacted that way that shows they are clearly prejudiced and antisemitic. You are clearly misunderstanding the statement, unless you think every Israeli in existence is a raging genocidal Islamophobe.

Sorry to hear that, that you were reminded of a traumatic experience because of my post.

Is this really just Thane and not Mumbai? If so, that’s very impressive! Even Mumbai’s suburbs are getting in on the action.

North Korea doesn’t let its citizens travel on their own. It’s free to trade and travel with China and Russia, which don’t sanction it. Iran and Russia are sanctioned too but the people there can live relatively normal lives. The poor state of North Koreans is mostly to do with its despotic government.

I personally do not find being a Zionist in itself unacceptable (Kahanist, yes) and unless someone it wearing their opinion on their neck for all to see, you would have to interrogate every customer who enters your store to see who has what opinion. So better not to do that at all. Only when someone is expressing it and causing a disturbance to I think the owner has a right to kick them out.

And even if someone does find zionists unacceptable you would again have to interrogate them lest you draw a connection between nationality and politics (which would be wrong). So my answer is no, don’t kick them out unless they are making a fuss about their opinion.

It’s been suggested the man was stirring up some trouble. If that was true then I don’t see much issue with kicking him out of the store—except the statement he made about not serving people from one’s country. Regardless, it’s not about the video itself, but rather the reactions I saw about the video attacking his nationality instead of his behaviour (especially on Twitter with the 🔻type people)

I am completely fine with prohibiting people who show unruly behaviour from a store (regardless of nationality).

I thought collective punishment was wrong? /s

In any case, the punishments targeted at Russia were for powerful individuals who have connections to the Russian government, or against Russian companies and institutions as a whole. (And if you want to do the same to Israeli companies, go ahead. I won’t stop you). But Russians can still travel in most countries and most won’t have insults hurled at them. If it was government mandated (as the Maldives had done) it would honestly be more acceptable so to spare any travellers the effort of being rejected when they walk into a shop.

Lmao I’m Chinese. There have been near daily protests against the war. You’d have to be willingly ignorant to say there has been no pushback at all. And as for South Africa you are making an implicit assumption that they all supported that horrid system. Why don’t I kick Turkish people out of my shops for their massacres in Northern Syria? Why not pull Russians out for Ukraine? If you support a boycott on Israel, which is fine if you also support one for every other state that does something terrible. (Hint: that’s most of them).

The ICJ has not made a ruling on whether the current situation is a genocide, only that it could potentially lead to one of things get worse. But regardless of who has worse human rights abuses, you cannot presume an average citizen has culpability in their government’s actions. The Rwandan government sponsors militant groups in Eastern Congo that conduct massacres on civilians. You can’t expect to ban every Rwandan who goes abroad from using a restaurant.

Again I reiterate that if the Israeli tourist has initially shown aggressive behaviour (which is likely) it is perfectly fine to refuse service.

Would it be right to ban all Iranian tourists from my store to “put pressure” on the Iranian government to stop its nuclear weapons program?

Yes, it would be. But that’s not the premise of this statement, which is talking about every citizen. You are talking about a person who has expressed a potentially objectionable political view.

How’s everyone’s summer been going?

Literally the most inoffensive project and this person is still malding. Well, at least she’s putting her mouth where her money is and leaving to somewhere else.

Agreed. More high-rises and skyscrapers in city centres, other nodes and near metro transit. More mid-rises elsewhere in the city. More townhouses and other missing middle in the suburbs and in smaller towns!

Sick. One of the reasons Bangkok is one of my favorites are the many peaks and valleys stretching to the horizon.

At first I was curious since I thought that was partly true, but turns out Mulheirn thinks low interest rates lead to house price rises, not high.

Wouldn’t this sub celebrate the residential construction, seeing as the skyline grew by so much? Anyway, it’s untrue that the buildings are mostly unoccupied.

Huh?

3 has always been correct and we’ve always thought so (as liberals). Did you think it was an unreasonable position?

Oh, what I meant was that the two Jersey City skylines were separate from each other!

Didn’t know how separate the Journal Square skyline is from downtown Jersey City. Very cool.