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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:11PM (9 children)
It shouldn't have to be part of your religion to not want to cause unneeded harm to other human beings. I can not fathom why you want an excuse, any excuse, to drag someone through the muck like the repugnikkkants seems to be looking for. It's as if you have to shit on those you deem lesser than you to make yourselves feel better about yourselves. Sick and disgusting. Each and every sycophant is complicit in this shame on American history.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:34PM (5 children)
Fuck you, faggot.
KILL YOURSELF and improve the gene pool.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @09:39PM (4 children)
Case and point. So sad this is what America has come to.
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:49AM (2 children)
You not understanding something kind of makes you unqualified to speak out against it, no? I mean, you obviously don't understand why anyone would have anything mean to say to you. Or do you and you just don't want to hear it?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:05AM (1 child)
considering the opinion and the people offering them, it is not worth listening to either.
The man is right, this bilge is America now.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:26PM
Again, if you don't understand the people you're flinging shit at, you've got no business flinging shit. I know, seeing things from anyone who disagree's perspective is absolutely forbidden in the SJW handbook. Feel free to not talk until you're willing to think as well then.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:03PM
Case in point. Come on now.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @11:56PM
Each and every sycophant is complicit in this shame on American history.
Yeah, including the ones that nominated Clinton, and anybody else that votes for republicans and democrats.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:54PM (1 child)
> Each and every sycophant is complicit in this shame on American history.
Ruining it all in the last sentence.
RESPONSIBILITY IS PERSONAL
WWIII is being fought as we speak by the same guys who condemn old style conventional arms wars. It is fought with people, financial transactions, tech. Its objective is the same of the previous two wars, not territorial changes (couldn't even kept Germany split, LOL) but reshaping of society.
I am telling you this because you are pointing a finger towards inexcusable behavior, but introducing the catch that allows the smarter guys to pit you against the others. Take the last sentence back or risk the role of useful idiot. Your choice.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:56PM
Indeed responsibility is personal. Each sycophant is making the personal decision to support this action rather than working to stop it. Thus each one is complicit in it's continuance. I will not retract it.