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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 bob_super on Monday June 25 2018, @07:45PM (8 children)
We already have school kids reciting their love for the flag every morning, and I hear Amazon has good prices on dark shirts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:48PM (3 children)
Yeah, but it's the rainbow flag now, for maximum brainwashing. Be sure to order your masks along with your dark shirts for your next Antifa riot where you beat peaceful people.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 25 2018, @09:34PM (1 child)
> peaceful people.
I don't agree with AntiFa starting fights, when it's usually pretty easy to get neo-nazis to step over the line first.
On the other hand, calling the other side "peaceful" is pretty shameful on your part. Let's be clear that the supremacists are on the wrong side of the values this country claims to upheld, and has so clearly demonstrated over years of political embargoes, WMD use, unconditional support for Apartheid, slavery ... sorry, what was my point going to be ? Oh, yeah, those values of equality we totally embrace, yessiree, completely, I swear...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Sulla on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:26AM
Yeah. All it took to get a neo-nazi to cause someones death was to wave a gun at him and hit his car with something. That neo-nazi that the crowd had no idea was anything but some random guy in a car sure started that fight. How dare he be driving a car, thats instigation!
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:55AM
If a human shaped object doesn't contain a brain do you consider it a "person"? My guess is the lizard people have managed to chemically lobotomize the Southern US, it probably requires sustained levels of heat cause most lizard activities require heat. Hopefully they don't discover refrigeration, if they could lobotomize the North we won't even have Canada left to save us!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:37AM
Which was added to counter those godless heathens back after world war two.
Also don't forget the US used to use the Bellamy salute in schools up until it became well known as the symbol of naziism and it was standardized as hand over your heart, or salute for military personnel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:44AM (2 children)
Like any of those kids care what they're saying unless someone tells them they shouldn't say it. We said it in school 27 years ago. None of us kids cared what any of the words meant, it was just one more stupid chore we had to do.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday June 26 2018, @08:01AM
If you think the systematic morning Pledge ritual, and the constant waving of flags and singing of the Anthem are totally innocent and have no effects, the rest of the world has quite a few bridges to sell you.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Immerman on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:01PM
I cared - even in grade school I knew it was wrong to take an an abusive loyalty oath you had no intention of keeping, especially when being strong-armed into it. Spent a lot of years standing with my hand over my heart, occasionally moving my mouth, just to avoid getting in trouble.