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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: 2) by mendax on Monday June 25 2018, @11:21PM (13 children)
It's been a long time in coming but this moment was the moment I think when public civility really died. I'm not defending that cunt Sanders or the stinking cock she works for. Far from it. But the owner of the restaurant should not have thrown her out either. Just because the President is an asshole and a child does not mean that the rest of us have to follow his example.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:58AM (12 children)
Have you had a good continuous sleep over the last decades?
If my memory serves, it started with Greed-is-good-economics and advanced to the point in which greed became the major buyer of political and social influence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:45AM (8 children)
I prefer greed to starvation. What is it with these leftists and denying people food?
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:03AM (7 children)
What is it with the rightist that make them blind to a continuum spectrum of possibilities and only able to see the extremes?
Or... do you prefer to have me assuming you raised on purpose a strawman in your argumentation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:12PM (6 children)
Its hard to see a spectrum when every attempt at communism has ended in starvation.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:08PM (4 children)
Just look in Europe. A good chunk of the countries are social democracies, bang in the middle.
Yeah,right, I keep forgetting the usians aren't able to perceive a middle in politics from their to-the-right position, sorry about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:14PM (3 children)
I will be okay with a middle when antifa stops waving communist flags. If the left will lump all of the alt-right into fascists than I will protect myself by lumping anybody willing to stand near a communist flag as a communist.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:27PM (1 child)
Justification and post-factum rationalization, my dear. The bitter truth is you're defective, your twisted mind makes your senses falter.
Show me antifa waving communist flags.
No, that red thing you saw after one of them punched you wasn't a flag. You'll see the same even when you hit yourself with a brick in the head; no, seriously, try it if you don't believe me, it won't damage you more than you already are.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:35AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/863440837379796993?lang=en [twitter.com]
Many such cases!
The right crazies hold up the confederate flag and you lose your mind, the left holds up a flag that represents at least 100 million dead over the past 11 centuries and its a-ok.
Both are wrong, and you are blind for not seeing the snakes in your own bed.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:24AM
Songbird McCain's daughter says it's terrible that we had the North Korea flag and the America flag together when I met the Supreme Leader. It's not terrible. And it doesn't make me a communist. It's part of how we write a new chapter in the relations of our Countries!!!
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:14AM
Not true. My Summit Meeting in Singapore with Kim Jong Un began with a prawn cocktail, avocado salad, mango kerabu, octopus, potato dauphinois, broccolini, fried rice & Asian vegetables. And it ended in chocolate tartlet and vanilla Haagen-Dazs ice cream. Who needs the Red Hen!!!!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 26 2018, @08:52AM (2 children)
No Matter how long you have been asleep, punching a Nazi is the face is always a good start! If no Nazis explicitly self identify, punching Sulla is an acceptable facsimile. Do not punch jmorris, his jaw is glass.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:44AM
By Jove, magister, you scare me! Surely you don't suggest I must exert myself, do you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:16PM
FTFY.