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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: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 25 2018, @07:41PM (6 children)
Whatabout whatabout...
I win.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:21PM (5 children)
Some victory. Now, what do you propose to do about the industrial scale human trafficking pipeline that Obama and the DC establishment orchestrated?
What is it with Democrats and slavery?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Knowledge Troll on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:04AM (4 children)
What the fuck are you talking about? Can you explain what you mean or at least cite some website that isn't pure shit and drivel with more useless pictures than words?
Are you able to articulate an argument or just confuse people and sound angry?
Are you the guy that tried to argue the world is flat? You sound just like that moron.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:28AM (3 children)
This [threadreaderapp.com] If you think a comprehensive breakdown linking to federal documents along the way is "pure shit and drivel" then you are the moron. So let's elaborate:
(Score: 4, Insightful) by cblood on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:46AM (1 child)
These links are all off point. These are stories about good policies that were poorly implemented, allowing some people to fall through the cracks. They are not good, but they are orders of magnitude less severe than what is currently going on. That is entirely different from the current fascist thugs who do these terrible things as POLICY.
Even as immigration has fallen to negative levels with more people leaving than coming, and event thought the actual statistics so that undocumented people have LOWER crime rate, the administration is fanning the racist theories by highlighting crimes by immigrants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @09:04PM
These are the policies Trump is implementing.
It's called democracy, people voted to stop illegal immigration.
They don't have documentation because they are in the country illegally. There's one crime a piece for each illegal alien before we get of the starting blocks.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Friday June 29 2018, @02:08AM
You say one thing and then provide links to another. I can't tell if you are that stupid, that crazy or someone has MITM you and adjusts your content before it makes it to the website, but it's one of those.