I think we haven’t adopted that standard here in the UK, either. At least not in England (other parts of the UK have some different laws, so it might be different there).
There are specific positions which confer right of entry to anyone in them while acting as that position, e.g. environmental health officer.
There are some protected groups with superior rights who can’t be turned away for that reason. For example, it’s illegal to refuse to serve people because they’re female but legal to refuse to serve people because they’re male. It’s illegal to refuse to serve people because they’re not heterosexual but legal to refuse to serve people because they are heterosexual. Etc.
But other than protected groups, it’s legal to refuse up until the point at which a contract is formed. So if I owned a shop I could, for example, refuse to sell you stuff because I didn’t like the colour of your shoes or because I was reading a book or because I flipped a coin and it came down heads or for no reason. But if you and I agreed to a sale a contract would be formed and if I then refused I’d be in breach of contract. The existence of things for sale and stated prices doesn’t constitute a contract in UK law - legally that’s just an invitation to negotiate a contract, not a contract in itself.
She was refused service in a public place (which is being publically refused service).
The refusal was made public, which makes it public. So it was public twice over.
She was ordered to leave the premises. The restaurant owner may well have phrased the order politely, but the order was made.
She was refused service and ordered to leave because of her political position. That’s as political as a reason can get - it was literally because of her job as a politician.
I’ve no doubt that some of the more extreme Republicans think that Democrat officials are horrible people who do horrible things. Politics appears to very often reach extraordinary levels of partisanship in the USA.
Unlike Sanders, who was not aggressive and was defending herself from something that was going to happen (the story getting out) and had in fact already happened (someone else tweeted about it hours before she did).
Do you never take precautions regarding things that you have very good reason to believe are going to happen or have already started to happen, or even for things that might happen?
So basically modern liberalism is all about making shit up. Don’t like the definition of tolerance? We’ll make up our own, which specifically gives us the right to be intolerant!
Not surprising, since they are constantly inventing new definitions for gender, race, etc.
There is a HUGE difference between just being a Republican and being Sarah Sanders (vis a vis her role in this administration). It’s the way she does her job and the person she defends on a daily basis that justifies treating her as a pariah. I don’t see any other way she’ll learn.
To call what she does as merely “her job as a politician” ignores the depth of depravity, dishonesty and corruption of this administration. It’s not a matter of degree, with these guys, it’s a whole different thing.
It’s called the paradox of tolerance. It’s been known about since 1945, given the quote on that page.
It is the right who has tried to redefine tolerance to mean tolerance of intolerance. It’s just an attempt to attack liberals by claiming hypocrisy, while ignoring what we’ve actually bee
Which is exactly the point of your post. It doesn’t actually address the topic. It doesn’t set forth an argument. It just accuses liberals (and one in particular) of hypocrisy.
And then extends it, likely to try and move the topic to either gender or race.
Yep. Had a longer post that said the same thing is much more words. I’ll include some of it, so it doesn’t go to waste:
“Trump is not normal. He is not someone we politically disagree with. Sanders is not normal. Never before in our history as a country have we had to treat the President or the White House Press Secretary as an unreliable source. Never have we had those who rails against freedom of the press. Never before in our history, or in the history of the modern world, have people had concentration camps for children. And that’s just the recent stuff that occurred to me just then.”
It is ridiculous to try and equivocate, and pretend this is just about politics. Sanders is merely facing consequences for her actions.
If someone tries this on someone for just being a liberal or a conservative, I’ll decry it. But that is not what is going on here.
So in your estimation sending a tweet to more than 3 million followers which is immediately picked up by the media and broadcast to the entire world is exactly the same as talking to your neighbor?
Not in my world, it isn’t.
What did the other tweet say that she had to defend herself against?
I have no idea and I bet you don’t, either, because almost no one saw it, since the restaurant waiter or whoever it was doesn’t have 3+ million followers and the attention of the national media. This was vindictive whining casting aspersions on the restaurant and hoping to damage its business, all done contrary to law on an official government account.
And she was apparently still “taking precautions” the next morning when she slammed the restaurant in an official White House press conference, and her boss joined in on Twitter, Trump tweeting that the restaurant has “filthy” windows and canopies and therefore must be equally dirty on the inside. A real class act, those two.
I for one am outraged that Ms. Huckabee Sanders was denied her farm-to-table dinner. This is something vital to her health & wellbeing, not something frivolous like filling a birth control prescription. :rolleyes:
Sure, a lot of presidents have been criticized, both justly and unjustly. It’s beyond dispute, however, that this current S.O.B. is actually incompetent, ignorant, dangerous, and obnoxious. He is an embarrassment like no previous president has ever been.
In years past you’d hear things like “I don’t know why people on the other side hate Obama/Bush/Clinton so much.” You don’t hear that about Trump. There is no question why he is reviled.
It should be noted that the other members of her party, who are probably conservative and Republican also, were not asked to leave. They left anyhow, of course, but the request was to Sanders alone.
The scary thing is that yes, you do hear this. There is a sizable group of people who do not understand what the rest of us find objectionable about the man or his administration.