Compulsion is Compulsion, no matter who does it. This is Brilliant Theft is Theft, no matter who does it. Freedom of Association has no room in it for *private* action that takes that away Freedom of Association. If I have a business and have voluntary associations such that I choose to serve some people and to not serve others, that might make me a jerk and it might lose me business, it might make me smart and it might gain me business, but it's got to be my choice. If I would normally serve the current disliked minority in my shop except for the fact that if I'm SEEN to serve them by the wrong people I'll have a private campaign against me as those people do everything possible to ruin me by preventing me from doing business physically or by attacking my customers or suppliers, then I am NOT free to make those choices. Does it really make a difference to losing my CHOICE to voluntarily associate if there's a law that says I may not serve "those people" o...
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As far as I can tell, when folks on the net talk about red meat, they are refering to feeding the emotions and desires of the people, generally in a connotatively negative fashion. Meaning feeding the negative desires of a people, such as hate or anger or some such.
Hate typically requires energy to sustain itself, and proteins is a good analogy for the process. "red" can also connotate a sense of rawness and pure nature, law of the jungle going on.