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posted by janrinok on Monday June 25 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the restaurant-with-bite dept.

BBC,

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant on Friday night because she works for President Donald Trump. A co-owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, asked Ms Sanders and her family to leave as a protest against the Trump administration.

She told the Washington Post that she decided to ask the Trump spokeswoman to leave the 26-seat, "farm-to-table" restaurant after talking to her staff. "Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave," she said she told them. "They said yes."

The incident comes days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC. Critics of the Red Hen's decision said that it was discriminatory. However, others compared the restaurant's decision to a recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, in a case seen by many conservatives as a test for religious freedom.

WaPo - the owner of the Red Hen explains

[...] She [Ms Wilkinson (the proprietor)] knew Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him. She knew the community was deeply divided over such issues as Confederate flags. She knew, she said, that her restaurant and its half-dozen servers and cooks had managed to stay in business for 10 years by keeping politics off the menu.

[...] It was important to Wilkinson, she said, that Sanders had already been served — that her staff had not simply refused her on sight. And it was important to her that Sanders was a public official, not just a customer with whom she disagreed, many of whom were included in her regular clientele.

"They offered to pay," Wilkinson said. "I said, 'No. It's on the house.' "

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:05PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:05PM (#698282)

    We reserve the right to refuse service to Assholes.

  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:08PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:08PM (#698286)

    We reserve the right to refuse service to Assholes.

    So you don't serve Democrats huh?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday June 25 2018, @07:46PM (3 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @07:46PM (#698326) Journal

      So you don't serve Democrats huh?

      Being a Democrat is a protected status. Something you inherently are. So you cannot discriminate against that.

      Being a Republican is a choice that one makes. An inherently immoral act that goes against the religious faith of many people. So you can discriminate against that.

      I doubt anyone will be able to find any logical problem or contradiction in my reasoning here.

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      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:42PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:42PM (#698365)

        God DAMN you are a self-righteous prick.

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Monday June 25 2018, @09:17PM (1 child)

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @09:17PM (#698392) Journal

          If you look carefully, you'll see that I am treating two choices of political affiliation in completely different ways -- both wrongly, and each wrong for different reasons.

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          People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:37AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:37AM (#698520)

            Too fucking meta for these lead goblet drinking goblins.

            What you don't like my characterization? Join the 21st century you twats!