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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: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday June 25 2018, @07:52PM (2 children)
Until you have more data points, you cannot say that the restaurant is discriminating against a certain 'kind'. It seems to me they discriminated against a specific individual for specific reasons they and most people find objectionable. Just like asking a loud obnoxious smoker with no shoes and shirt to leave.
If the restaurant's customer base does not like it, they can vote with their dollars.
The strange thing is that if it were the other way around, Trump supporters would be defending this action and saying how great it is. The restaurant owner's rights, etc.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:04AM (1 child)
Ahhhh, Danny finds an all-important kernel of truth. Yes, if this had happened to a Democrat, the Republicans would be happy, and Democrats would be outraged. Nothing strange about that.
Meanwhile - rational people know that it would be wrong in either case.
So, bottom line is, the restaurant owner is in the wrong.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:18PM
I think I just pointed out that either way some people would think it is wrong, and some people would think it is the restaurant owner's right. Whether you think it is wrong depends on which foot the shoe is on.
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