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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuckabee Sanders was kicked out of a VA restaurant --
.@PressSec got kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va tonight. Apparently the owner didnt want to serve her and her party out of moral conviction.
Link to tweet
Blue Owl
(50,598 posts)What a pity...
pwb
(11,319 posts)Or snoot.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)FarPoint
(12,487 posts)We don't like it when done to us...
That said... Hecklers are fine.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)When it's done to us, it's NOT because we are supporting and lying daily for a fascist leader, or trying to gaslight the public. There IS no equivalency here. None.
JI7
(89,289 posts)Are anti gay beliefs more worthy of protecting than anti child abuse beliefs ?
FarPoint
(12,487 posts)Collectively, we do not deny service for " feelings issues"...dress code, yeah. .
So, we are being hypocritical....
I find the protesters, Hecklers very effective.
JI7
(89,289 posts)As a response to this, her support of bigotry against lgbt should be brought up.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)What nonsense.
She is LYING to the AMERICAN PEOPLE on a daily basis to support a clearly FASCIST so-called President. Objectively, that's factual AND very, very wrong. Standing up against fascism -- and lies -- has nothing to do with "feelings."
She is a Fascist pig...
But....we don't respond in the same fashion as they do...we fight the oppression.
JI7
(89,289 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)this is HOW you fight the oppression.
Back up and take another look -- you are way wrong about this.
Besides, refusing service is in some ways better than heckling and protesting. But, they're on a par in my mind. If heckling is okay with you, I can't imagine why refusing service doesn't pass your acceptable test.
And let's talk about something else: THIS IS AN EMERGENCY time in our history. We have to use every legal tool we can get our hands on. (And there'll no doubt come a time and place where we'll have to do some civil disobedience as well.) So wake up -- it's serious.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)constraint on evil behaviors that hurt others, not to be confused with acting out against others for merely existing.
SH Sanders, Steven Miller, Kiersten Nielsen were all asked to leave a restaurant for kidnapping and tormenting children for political purposes. Pretty mild, considering, not beaten to death in the streets. Guess this is still America.
Nevilledog
(51,318 posts)snowybirdie
(5,252 posts)Several folks standing around the table chanting "shame on you" would have made an interesting dining experience for ole Sarah!
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)refusing to serve someone for being part of a protected class (eg their race, nationality, gender, religion, and in some cases sexual orientation) and refusing to serve an individual for their behavior (eg being drunk, being a racist piece of shit).
Being a racist piece of shit carrying water for fascists is not a protected class. Unless Trump signed some executive order that I missed.
I own a small business. I can't kick someone out for being white, or Christian, or black, or Japanese, for example. I can kick out any individual I want for other reasons. If someone comes in here wearing a confederate flag shirt and shouting 'All Lives Matter' and 'Die Fa****ts I sure as shit can *and will* legally tell them to leave.
yardwork
(61,813 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)It has nothing to do with attributes about her like being African American, LGBTQ, female, her particular religion or lack there of.
This has everything to do with her actions and deeds and how those explicitly harm others.
I understand your hesitation to refuse service given the history with African Americans and, currently, with LGBTQ people. This is not the same thing by a long shot though. Refusing service to her is like refusing service to Goebbels. And I am not exaggerating by using a Nazi reference. Not anymore, not with these people.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Being gay isn't. She can change any time she'd like.
QC
(26,371 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)So no bitching from you or the RW, thank you very much.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Girard442
(6,088 posts)They could have served up you up a very special dish, with a smile.
DinahMoeHum
(21,842 posts)trof
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(21,842 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)her fat daddy and obese, animal abuser brothers? Does she have a government credit card to charge meals to, and are WE paying for her to gorge herself and her family members?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The reich wing loves that stuff.
SCantiGOP
(13,879 posts)Do not allow me to serve anyone who is clearly in the service of Satan.
Have you tried the menu at Hobby Lobby?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)JI7
(89,289 posts)She thinks it's ok to discriminate if someone is gay.
George II
(67,782 posts)slumcamper
(1,608 posts)For anyone familiar with the movie "The Help," a reenactment of the pie scene would have been MOST appropriate for this (ahem) "customer" and her party.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)She's using a government twitter account to attack a private business. That's a crime and abuse of her position.
Fla Dem
(23,898 posts)You know what to do!!! Give them your support!
https://www.facebook.com/redhenlexington/
keithbvadu2
(37,061 posts)Ivanka had a patron removed from a restaurant she was dining in.
In a new low for Washington, yesterday @chefjoseandres was asked to leave the Alfalfa dinner after-party at @CafeMilanoDC by its owner, Franco Nuschesse, apparently because his presence made Ivanka Trump uncomfortable (Cafe Milano is the watering hole of the Trump Admin).
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NCjack
(10,279 posts)like she, as one of the faces of Trumpism, will have to find some conservative restaurants.
axm
(91 posts)womp womp