Found this to be an interesting read.
https://www.sporcle.com/blog/2019/12/where-did-no-shirt-no-shoes-no-service-come-from/
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What? Who has a problem with the "No Shirt No Shoes No Service" signs?
If they're not generally mandated by the government, and
If they're not pushed by the totalitarian media,
The reason they're posted is because business owners have very good reason to want to keep drugged-out wrecks out of their doorway, yelling at paying customers.
Small businesses "discriminating" against hippies who think "everything oughta be free, man"? Oh, the horror!
I ended looking it up because I started questioning what happened to make this a thing. Like if I didn't want to wear shoes and my feet would be dirty and in pain.
It's a valid question, but in my opinion, the salient takeaway is that it appears to not be a top-down, government-pushed destruction of rights, but rather a way in which independent business owners could protect themselves from encroaching chaos and a crumbling of morality.
These signs are a good thing; a sign (pun not intended, but I'm keeping it!) of civilization and liberty.
you're missing the fact that there is enormous pathway to invent a way to discriminate against people that sidesteps the law.
You're making "drugged-out wrecks" the normal way to address people who don't agree with you or live like you.
I live amongst people who can manage to wear shoes and shirts when they go into most storefront business, and without feeling in the slightest bit oppressed. The only people here who can't manage that are, yes, drugged-out wrecks.
And business owners must be perfectly free to discriminate against vagrants who aren't there to make legitimate purchases, who will repel paying customers, and who need to get clean, not be lavished with "San Francisco compassion."