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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: 4, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday June 25 2018, @07:10PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday June 25 2018, @07:10PM (#698289)

    There are some reasons you're not legally allowed to refuse service: Being black, for example. But you are certainly allowed to refuse service to somebody for being someone you just don't plain like in your establishment for other reasons. For instance, if Bob always causes a ruckus at your bar - nothing illegal, but just annoying - you have a right to kick him out.

    As for the political aspects of this, I once told an expanded mythological story about a king who insulted a famous poet who had come to perform at his court. The poet proceeded to write and spread what we would now call a "dis track", and by the end of the story he's still technically the king, but had no power because nobody would do what he said. Those with power would be wise to remember that their power depends on other people choosing to answer to them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:12AM (#698536)

    Glad to hear about your new career in children's fairy tales.

    I would like to remind you that had half of the country lost their fucking mind over Obama like the current crop of Democratic minions has about trump, the left would have been up in arms with a conniption fit. I am astonished at how bad the left can behave, while their supporters stand on the sidelines cheering. Conservatives complained about Obama bypassing Congress by issuing executive orders to bypass legislation that he wanted and couldn't get, but there was no violence and other poo flinging like I am seeing from the left.

    When this all started right after the election, I offered the following advice to my friends who identify on the left. Beware of what you cause to become normalized behavior. Sooner or later, your people will be elected to office, and you may regret the incivilities you have allowed to become acceptable and tolerable behavior or else don't complain when it is revisited on your candidates by the other team. There may be a great reckoning if a Democrat that is unpopular on the right is elected next time.

    We will be lucky if we do not end up in a new Civil War.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:09AM (#698596)

      See?

      This is the intended result.

      Calls for civil war over one person's preference. It is a rage bubbling over and just waiting for realease. Any excuse will do.

      I have lived a privileged life, I grew up with no worries about my next meal, but many worries about "wars" my country engaged in. I've seen tragedy strike communities as national disasters, communities around the world during my short time on Earth. We help each other, and at the scale of BILLIONS that requires legislation to provide resources (food/shelter/medicine) to the most people we can.

      What does sacrificing a private jet compare to providing cutting edge medical care for an entire community? Make exporting the experts economically feasible! Be a doctor, work wherever, get decent pay! too obvious to believe?