This morning Trump tweeted that we “cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country” and we should “immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came.”
See, he’s just a normal president, equating asylum seekers with an invasion and calling for the suspension of due process. Much as every other president has done. I disagree with him, but I guess he has a right to be wrong, and that’s that.
Attacking the press, blaming immigrants, advocating ignoring due process, falsly alleging voting fraud and attacking the judiciary, what could possibly go wrong? Plus, the normalization of lying, unethical behavior, and incompetence. Plus, dismantling environmental protection
It doesn’t bother you that approximately 40% of the voters have embraced the deplorable?
It’s funny seeing her father, Mike Huckabee, commenting on the situation and classifying it as “bigotry” when he was an outspoken defender of “Freedom of Religion” laws that would specifically protect business owners who refused to serve blacks, gays, arabs, Jews, Muslims, or anyone else they say their religion says not to like. I guess it’s ‘freedom’ if you want to kick out certain people, but if it applies to his daughter then it’s suddenly ‘bigotry’ and wrong.
It’s also interesting that exactly none of the people arguing in favor of discrimination in other threads, particularly the one about the Colorado Baker, are willing to argue in favor of it here.
In the end, I think you’ll find that restaurants, especially those serving alcohol, ARE granted very large leeway in refusing service. To any customer. At any time. For any reason.
Which has a basis in logic. If you hang a shingle, you are using the facilities of our society to earn your keep, which obligates you to treat people fairly. The gas station in Outthere Nevada could realistically be the critical oasis, where arbitrarily refusing service to someone in need could be a life-and-death decision that you, the business owner, should not be empowered to make. That such an outpost should be held to a different standard than any other business seems unreasonable.
If you are reasonably certain that a specific party is going to steal from you, damage your property or pose some other material threat to your livelihood, I can see that you should have the right to bounce or bar them. But that is opposite of being arbitrary.
Frankly, as much as I dislike SHS, if she was not being obnoxious or disruptive, the owner should have sucked it up and handled her service herself if the other workers were unwilling to.
The left made the same claim against President Bush, and the right made the same claim against President Obama. Neither of those claims had any merit, nor does this one.
A state judge in New York has already ruled that people wearing MAGA hats can be barred from restaurants. I know it doesn’t apply to Virginia, but the case law is out there.
Here is Mark Godwin on his “law” and the real world:
You are falling for a balance fallacy, what is happening is not normal. And while it is not at the level of WWII abnormality, not minding the steps towards a nasty end is the reckless behavior.
Compare to the case of the two men who sat in Starbuck’s without ordering and refused to leave when asked. Are the same people defending the store manager for that case and this one?
It would be more reasonable if SHS was turned away at the door, but having the party sit down, wait for menus, wait for waiter to take order, start eating the appetizers, and then get asked to leave when the meal is almost ready caused a lot of unnecessary inconvenience. When OJ Simpson was refused service at a restaurant, I don’t think they let him sit down and order, then tantalized him by throwing him out right before the meal was ready.
I once saw Ann Coulter on the Today show complaining about how the media was somehow withholding access from her and not giving her a forum to express her opinions. On the Today show.
Her argument falls apart if you stop and think about it for three seconds. That’s why some people don’t stop talking long enough for you to think about what they’ve been saying.
Some restaurants require that you wear a jacket and tie, and will provide with the proper attire in order to maintain their desired atmos. By the same token, hats of any sort are very out-of-place at any table, and if you insist on keeping your hat on, you are welcome to do that elsewhere.