I am
not heartless. I stand for the rights of all people. Segregation that was
supposedly ended in the 1960s has continued through today. There is a greater
issue than the civil rights movements of the past can ever claim to have been. The
oppressive policy is far wider reaching than any other, discriminating against
more people than any other. At least Jim Crow Laws only affected blacks. And
surely, the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts are, at minimum, an equal of
racial discrimination. Widespread lynchings and mob violence holds no
comparison to Christians refusing to participate in same-sex weddings. It is
well-known that the federal government and university leftists have acquired
all known knowledge and hence know what is best for us.
Still,
there is one policy that reaches higher than Jim Crow Laws. It is more evil
than Christians refusing to bake cakes. The maniacal policy that is oppressing
millions.
You
can’t find one town in America that does not somewhere have a bigoted business
with a sign that reads: “No shoes, no shirt, no service.”
Folks,
it’s time to speak out.
Silently
oppressed for the duration of the so-called “greatest country on Earth” is the
group that only wants to live how they feel like living. But instead of having
compassion on our fellow humans, we demonize them and refuse to serve them
simply because they are different than us. People are born that way. In the
same way that people can’t help but be gay, there are people that can’t help
but be homophobes. They’re born that way. And in the same way that people can’t
help but be homophobes, people can’t help but have the internal desire to be
shoeless and shirtless.
Perhaps
Bud Hutchins, president of the National Association for the Advancement of
Shirtless People, said it best in his response to a bigoted Republican senator
who told him to “put a shirt on”: “I'm hardly surprised [Sen. Craig] ascribes
to the repugnant and prejudicial notion that we have 'chosen' to be this way,”
Hutchins said. “Well, I've got news for you, senator: This is the way I am. I
was born not wearing a shirt.” I encourage the reader to research about the
past failed movement of the NAASP and Barefoot America! to gain a better
understanding of the personal and hurtful nature of such policies: http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations-shirtless-shoeless-march-on-washington-for,262/.
It is
shameful to envision that in a free country there is still so much bigotry
towards those of an alternate style of dress. Simply search for the catchphrase
of the segregationists and you will find dozens of designs all aimed at
oppressing this group. Put it in perspective: only so many people can be black
or gay, but anyone can be shoeless. The rights of every American ride on this
all-too-common policy.
Just
last spring I had a run-in with the podophobes. I was at a beach in
Jacksonville and needed to use the restroom. I took a lengthy walk to a
beach-side restaurant to use the restroom there, but was stopped upon entry
because I had no footwear. I was humiliated and enraged that anyone could be so
intolerant as to degrade me simply for a personal choice. I finally knew what
it felt like to be crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the face of people who
consider you beneath them simply for being who you are. I had to walk back and
get my shoes and wear them in simply to use the restroom.
It
was pointed out to me that there were restrooms on the beach specifically for
people without shoes. But that is beside the point. I should have the right to
use any restroom I want without fear of being turned away for the way I live my
life. I deserve to use their bathrooms. They have no right to turn me away.
A
friend of mine offered this theory, and I believe it has sufficient merit to
bear mentioning it in my proposal. Businesses pay taxes to the government.
Hence, the government is able to control businesses. This includes ending
segregation against people with no shoes and no shirts. And as long as I live I
refuse to lay down to the pressures of hard-nosed conservatives that think
private businesses should be able to develop their own policies.
And,
naturally, since individuals pay taxes as well, the government has every right
to regulate them. I expect that with the success of our modern civil rights
campaign, I will be able to use the bathroom of any private residence in
America. With no shoes on.
The
only way to bring about true freedom in this country is forcing private
businesses to accept me, even if they disagree with me on the need to wear
shoes. They have to support me despite their podophobia and bigotry.
I am
declaring a Hate Free bubble around me, and none of your negativity will affect
me.
There
are certain steps that need to be taken to ensure that we can free our feet and
torsos from the oppression of entrepreneurs.
First,
we need to show the world that we have pride. Emphasize your differences. I
propose parades in every major city of people with no shoes and shirts who are
willing to own up to who God made them to be. Other activism is in order.
Social media hashtags. Equal signs made up of two feet or two shirtless people.
Second,
a catchphrase needs to be adopted. I see no reason why the phrase “You do you”
cannot apply to the movement. As I have already established through my good
word and have verified by the words of my supporters, one cannot help being
barefoot or shirtless. They are born that way.
Third,
we must paint those who require shirts and shoes in a negative light. In the
society in which we live, what matters is not the argument or facts but how
creatively we structure our ad hominem fallacies. They are not pro-sanitation,
they are anti-shoeless and anti-shirtless. They are bigots, afraid of change,
stuck in the past. They are segregationists, podophobes and omphalophobes.
Those who refuse to uphold our rights to choose a specific business out of a
plethora of them deserve this treatment, and we must give it to them.
Last,
and this is the key, we must take legal action against those who refuse to obey
our command of removing their intolerant policies of hate against the shoeless
and shirtless. Attempt to walk into a segregated establishment and if you are
stopped, file a lawsuit. The ACLU will be more than happy to take your case.
Eventually, the goal is that other businesses will be afraid of legal action
and allow those who were born to bare their torsos and feet to do so. Then we
will challenge these policies and attempt to pass laws allowing the shirtless
and shoeless to bear what they have in any private business of their choosing.
It is
important for morale to note that a majority is not needed. Take the instance
of the lesser movement of gay marriage rights. In California, the citizens
voted to disallow the practice, but the Supreme Court confirmed that the will
of the people is not important in government decision-making, building off of
its ruling on the Affordable Care Act. How many supporters in our movement is
not important, but rather how powerful our supporters are.
Of a
surety, those without friends who choose the lifestyles of shoelessness and
shirtlessness have no right to speak out on the subject. And it is assumed that
those who do have barefoot and baretorso friends will support their right to
walk into businesses without footwear and shirts.
We
may be oppressed and discriminated against now, but history will view us as the
next great movement for equality. Stand up for your rights. End the freedom of
conscience for private businesses. If the gay rights activists can force a
business to go against its religious beliefs then it is imperative that, in
this farther-reaching movement, we force them to allow our own uniqueness. It
is right, it is fair, and if you disagree, well, you’re a mamillaphobe.
Join the movement
to end segregation against the shoeless and shirtless in the best way we know
how. Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/shoelessshirtlessrights
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