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I get that. It makes logical sense. It's just that corporations have so much power to impose their will and it feels weird to me that we let them do that even when it comes to how a human presents themself.
I agree with you about that, but these employees have chosen to do a job where they come face to face with customers daily, and some of those customers may get offended by seeing an employee wearing a BLM badge, in red states for example. The company doesn't want to antagonise a potential customer and lose a sale, so they're asking that no employees wear any political markings. And honestly, I think that's a fair request if you work in a customer-facing role.
Notice that this ruling only applies to Whole Foods workers, not Amazon warehouse workers, who can probably wear whatever they want since they don't deal with customers.
Because it is weird. It's even weirder for any average person to defend it.