Interesting editorializing of the headline on this post.
Interesting editorializing of the headline on this post.
If you respond to this situation by any action (other than smiling and walking away or joining in the accosting), you are demonstrating intolerance for the accoster. Even simply trying to reason with him/her about his/her beliefs demonstrates some level of intolerance. But you feel sympathy for the accosted, you don't share the views of the accoster, and you want to help in some way. This is known as the paradox of intolerance and it's a challenging philosophical issue.
The argument against Shopify that is being made here is that the behavior and actions of Breitbart and similar groups and publications bring about an atmosphere that leads to intolerance towards minorities. Or, if you prefer something more concrete, a store in Indiana refusing to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple demonstrates intolerance towards homosexuals. What can we do to help or make them stop being intolerant? How can we respond to this intolerance without demonstrating intolerance ourselves? Or is intolerance of intolerance a moral obligation?
Perhaps being supportive of people who have called for the extermination of black people and other minorities?
This showed up in the results, and is more informative: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/07/19/black-lives-matter...
BLM stand for bringing the police who shot notably innocent black people to justice.
Richard Spencer and the Fascist-Right have openly proposed and spoken in great depth about the sterilization and or extermination of PoC, Jews, etc. and how exactly to achieve it.