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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, Insightful) by edIII on Monday June 25 2018, @09:51PM (2 children)

    by edIII (791) on Monday June 25 2018, @09:51PM (#698413)

    What a dumb fucking argument. You're trying to equate social services, foster parents, and orphanages with abandoned Wallmart's, steel fences, concrete floors, ARMED GUARDS, and instructions to not speak to, or hug a child. I've seen this argument before, and it's the stupidest fucking argument possible. You've constructed some straw man argument where the parents, after getting caught, are forcing the child upon us to be raised. You are somehow the victim in all this, because *gasp*, you're now partially responsible for the child afterwards. Selfish fuck. Of course, being the shithead you are, you really don't see a difference between foster care and a Wallmart with steel fences, and armed guards.

    It has sure as fuck BEEN DIFFERENT. That difference is in how we treat the child, and that's ONLY if the parents have committed a crime so grave as to cause us to lose all confidence in the parental abilities. Again, a woman fleeing domestic violence in her home country, and coming here with a child IS NOT GROUNDS to take away the child. It is grounds for us to incarcerate the mother and child together, until such time we decide to let them stay, or let them go. Operative word here being, "TOGETHER".

    So to answer your question, yes, it has sure as fuck been different in the past. We don't take away children from domestic violence victims (that are also citizens), we never have, and we never will.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:23PM (#698832)

    It is shocking you have to explain the basics of being humane. So many lizard men around here.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:45PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:45PM (#699315) Homepage Journal

    Let's see, can you spot the part where you go from advocating for humane behavior and run screaming into authoritarian shitheadery?

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