I’ve been saying for years that the habit of denying services to people on the basis of their reputation and fear that it may blow back onto service providers would lead to wider problems. Back then it was often people on the alt-right being denied services, so those on the left tended not to see any issue - it was a private decision by private company. But private companies are, in our society, an important part of providing the essentials of life, and it’s not good enough that people can be cut off from them for just any reason.
In the end if we are to make life unpleasant for those in the alt-right, it has to be done by grass-roots efforts, not by companies, because the power to do so will then always end up being wielded against someone it should not.
I have never encountered leftist activists in the US who believe denying healthcare and basic human services to people you hate is truly part of the solution, I don’t know what you are talking about.
A founding part of modern leftist movements in the US is the concept of intersectionality which underlines how we are all connected in our pursuit of freedom and in our suffering.
The DNC/Democrat establishment arguably does what you say but that is different.
Healthcare? No, I don’t think leftists would approve of that, and haven’t heard of it. But things like banking, internet access, or use of hotels? I think that kind of thing has definitely been approved of. The most recent case I remember was when Nigel Farage’s bank was closed - NatWest initially claimed it was because of falling below a funding threshold, but later admitted it was due to his views.
P.S. this is the UK politics community.
My bad I got confused, I like paying attention to UK politics because of the ways it is both similarly enraging but also uniquely different, I didn’t mean to comment broadly on it like this though, I don’t live there I just forgot where I was when responding to your specific comment sorry.
Hey don’t worry, figured it was something like that :P