Lexington Restaurant Kicks Out Sarah Huckabee Sanders On Political Grounds
O, brave new world, that has such restaurants in it!
You suck, Red Hen. I've never heard of you, but next time I'm in Lexington, I'll make it a point not to go there. Welcome to progressive America, in which the personal is political...and so is the vocational, the educational, and the sexual. Somewhere someone is probably working on a "social media" app that will let progressives share information so that they can more effectively harass the politically incorrect, refuse them service, fire them, and so on.
OTOH...which is really the same hand...: how far is this, really, from refusing to bake someone a cake? There's not all the difference in the world, obviously. Well...in the one case, we're talking about a deeply-held religious belief, and a demand to get over it on the basis of an extremely recent social trend and court decision... On the other hand, we're talking about a more-or-less routine political disagreement. So that matters. Religion is normally considered a rather special case.
And Trump's kind of a special case of shittiness. But I suspect that doesn't much matter. He makes things worse...but I suspect that this is just progressivism, and we should get used to it. It leans totalitarian; this is just one case in a very big pattern of punishing the politically incorrect. Fire them, refuse them service, kick them out of class, harass them, physically attack them, target their homes...raise the cost of heterodoxy until wrongthink is stamped out... Perhaps the average progressive in the street wouldn't participate in those things...but the average progressive in the street tolerates those things from other progressives.
posted by Winston Smith at
8:49 AM
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This is the republican dream come true. They've wanted this for years, or to return to this. The right to refuse service to anyone, regardless of race, gender, sex, etc. But now it's happening to them. Absolutely, priceless.
"The irony for conservatives here is that this is freedom of association. Conservatives have long argued for shibboleths like “states’ rights” and “religious freedom” as a code for giving bigots the power to refuse to serve and share space with racial and religious minorities, to refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings and make plates for black diners. Largely through the courts, America has rejected these arguments because minorities are protected classes who deserve freedom from discrimination–and conservatives have whined about these restrictions on their “freedom” of association in this respect for decades."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/23/trumpists-are-suffering-the-free-market-consequences-of-being-deplorable/
I'm beginning to think only conservatives have rights. At least, according to them.
I think you're blaming the wrong side...
Aside from objecting to mandatory cake-baking, I don't remember conservatives making such arguments in any widespread way since the 60s.
Maybe the right still harbors such sentiments...but it's *undoubtedly* the left that's the main offender right now.
As for the civil war nonsense: there the right is worse. But the left has its own triumphalist fantasies:
https://medium.com/s/state-of-the-future/the-great-lesson-of-california-in-americas-new-civil-war-e52e2861f30
And that TWM article is shiiiiiit.
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