It’s awful convenient that several high profile administration members have had problems getting fed recently. All breathlessly reported by the ‘liberal’ media.
It’s almost like somebody is trying to change the subject from what is going on in the detention centers.
And succeeding.
It violates the spirit of a law written to protect the rights of the desenfranchised against discrimination, when a member of the enfranchised govenment is kicked out of a restaurant because she’s the administration’s public relations advocate for torturing children?
I think you need to look up the definition of spirit, jackass.
That’s like saying consensual sex between adults violates the spirit of laws against pedophilia.
Hell, even the White House dining room told some of these freeloaders to lay off.
God, I goddamn hate those VSP.
While the owner of Red Hen may have violated the “spirit” of the civil rights act, the current administration, lead by our so-called president Trump and aided and abetted by his mouthpiece, Sarah Sanders, are violating people’s civil rights, voting rights, due process rights every day!
And as long as we are talking about “One of the first landmark pieces of civil rights legislation was the public accommodations [act], 1964,” please tell us how recent SCOTUS rulings condoning public accommodations discrimination against LGBT people by a Colorado baker and a Washington State florist fits that model.
If people are angry, it is largely due to the Trump’s daily dose of lies and the steady destruction of all that for over 50 years helped to make America truly great,
the repeated mantra of the right:
All we’re gonna offer you to eat is this shit sandwich we know you don’t like; better not complain about not getting anything to eat
or
This fascism thing would be a lot easier for all of us if you would just go along, I don’t know what your problem is, maybe you just don’t like America, if you would just do everything that I would like you to do, even though it thoroughly offends every fiber of your being, this would be a total kumbaya moment, libtards
Not sure but it being about three hours (?) outside the Beltway gives it significance. Probably a stretch but perhaps it goes ‘national’.
But if Sarah sat down next to me in a restaurant I ‘might’ have something to say.
Is Richard Haass on record criticizing Trump for any of his statements or acts that have encouraged tribalism? Has he called out Trump or anyone working for him for contributing to the polarization in our politics? What did Haass say when Trump said of John McCain “I like people that weren’t caught.”? Or when Trump proclaimed his investigators in Hawaii had discovered some very interesting things that would back up his claim Obama was not a legal U.S. citizen?
Or a suitable sound track.
The lesson here is pretty simple: if you don’t want to be treated like shit, don’t treat entire classes of people like shit. And if you do treat other people like shit, you’ve got zero legs to stand on when you get called out for it.
I wouldn’t perform CPR on any goddamned one of them were they blue in the face and passed out on the floor.
Conservatives honestly believe they should be the only protected class. They could have their boot on your neck and they’ll insist that the real crime is your negative attitude.
They consider the very concept of putting themselves in someone else’s shoes to be nothing more than a liberal trick designed to destroy their entire worldview and they won’t be falling for that again. If you don’t see everything from their perspective, it must be because you’re the enemy.
It may have something to do with the way they hate the concept of “brunch,” think it’s elitist, and it starts with a B. Too inclusive. Can you imagine how small their lives are? Breakfast (and that means pancakes, with a P) lunch and dinner. No brunch, no brunch. You’re the brunch.
The hypocrisy here is remarkable.
Denial of service simply for political beliefs or affiliation by public establishments is not a good precedent, despite the schadenfreude of seeing restaurant service denied to Ms. Huckabee-Sanders.
Discrimination for whatever reason is still discrimination. The right to be served in diners and restaurants was part of the frontline in the Civil Rights movement in the ‘60s.
We have fought hard for equal access to public services or all for decades, and we’re still fighting for it. I don’t see how anyone can support legally denying service for political beliefs and affiliations while being against legally denying services to LGBTQs (for example).
If you’re a liberal who thinks denying service because of political beliefs is okay, then don’t be surprised when you’re kicked out of a restaurant by a conservative owner who does not share your beliefs.
I was unaware that wealthy white women with high-paying, powerful jobs in the White House were a legally protected class under the 14th Amendment. When did that happen?
It’s just incredible to me that there is far more attention paid to the quiet action of an unknown owner of a restaurant than to the act of the press secretary in tweeting about what she did.
Violating the “spirit” of the Civil Rights Act? What about Sanders violating the spirit and the letter of federal ethics guidelines? “Rule 5 CFR 2635.702 ©, bars federal employees from using their government position to endorse any private ‘product, service, or enterprise’.” Neither can they use their position to denounce any product, service, or enterprise.
Charles Pierce might agree.Response to Red Hen Asking Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Leave Is Peak Stupidity in the Civility Debate
Peak stupidity indeed. And now somehow we are not discussing the civility of separating children from their parents because the parents legally sought asylum. The stupidity burns.
Perhaps just a “Womp womp” would have done the trick.
Ok Mr. Haass. You are as well informed about the Civil Rights Act as Trump.
Thanks for that. Was attempting to be delicate, but being American and not British, your response works best.