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Refusing To Serve Customers You Don’t Agree With Is Suddenly Cool Again
The Federalist ^

Posted on 11/20/2016 3:10:46 AM PST by TigerClaws

To the many things the Trump administration in waiting has made cool again, add private businesses refusing service to customers based on moral objections.

Friday, fashion designer Sophie Theallet, who has dressed the current first lady Michelle Obama, offered a preemptive refusal to hypothetically dress the next first lady, Melania Trump, should she ask for some of her clothes— presumably not the ones available at The Gap. In her unsolicited letter, Theallet informed the world that a person who did not ask for any of her clothes would not be getting them.

“As one who celebrates and strives for diversity, individual freedom and respect for all lifestyles, I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady,” the letter reads. “The rhetoric of racism, sexism, and xenophobia unleashed by her husband’s presidential campaign are incompatible with the shared values we live by.”

“I encourage my fellow designers to do the same,” it goes on.

In refusing service to Trump, Theallet appealed to “individual freedom” and the idea of her art as an expression of the company’s “artistic and philosophical ideals.” Her announcement was called “noble,” “patriotic,” and “admirable integrity.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doublestandards; liberalfascism; theallet
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
except for ones I personally disagree with

Or ones that if I DID support them would get me mercilessly attacked in public, on social media, and even in the MSM, and possibly beaten up by liberal thugs, who will simultaneously ruin my business and my family's life. Isn't the "Tolerant Left" wonderful?

21 posted on 11/20/2016 4:48:02 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: TigerClaws

Heya heya they call us deplorable xenophobes!


22 posted on 11/20/2016 4:54:10 AM PST by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: TigerClaws
It would appear Melania Trump is the winner on this one..
23 posted on 11/20/2016 4:56:26 AM PST by maddog55 (America Rising)
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To: Huntress

Doesn’t Melania have her own line of clothing? Or is that Ivanka?


24 posted on 11/20/2016 4:58:33 AM PST by xzins
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To: TigerClaws

Q: Is it acceptable for a Muslim cabbie to refuse to take a female fare, a fare w/a service dog, a fare carrying a bottle of booze?

If not....


25 posted on 11/20/2016 4:58:49 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: TigerClaws

Melania needs to go to that designer and order a dress. (Not that she’d EVER wear it). And when she refuses, take her to court.


26 posted on 11/20/2016 5:00:38 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: TigerClaws

Well, there are a few hundred rich people who won’t be dressed like (i) the cleaning lady or (i) an escapee from a Star Trek play put on in a mental hospital, as the moocher has often looked.


27 posted on 11/20/2016 5:01:08 AM PST by anton
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To: knarf

Answer, never mention gay, transgender, or muslim. Just say, “I don’t like your tone - no soup for you!”


28 posted on 11/20/2016 5:02:42 AM PST by anton
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To: TigerClaws

Okay then, #MAGA will be #MMHA; Make Melania Hot Again.


29 posted on 11/20/2016 5:08:38 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: TigerClaws

I mean would eat a cake you made me make???? WTF
Damn right I’ll make you a cake...$1000 up front please....pictures too....but $$$ up front. And, I’d advise you be very close to the bathroom after eating my great cake....ha ha ha


30 posted on 11/20/2016 5:17:02 AM PST by mastertex
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To: knarf

A gay hairdresser (is there anything else?) recently refused to do the hair of (RINO) Republican governor Martinez because she was a Republican (RINO).

In the very same state, a photographer was prosecuted for NOT doing a gay wedding. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court and the arrogant marriage-dictator court rejected the appeal of the photographer.

Justice in America.


31 posted on 11/20/2016 5:33:27 AM PST by heye2monn
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To: heye2monn

Sorry — the photographer state is New Mexico.


32 posted on 11/20/2016 5:34:35 AM PST by heye2monn
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To: TigerClaws
Trump administration in waiting has made cool again, add private businesses refusing service to customers based on moral objections.

I wouldn't necessarily say "cool", but "legal". For example:

Should a black baker be forced by law to bake a cake for a KKK gathering?

Should a Jewish baker be forced by law to bake a cake for a Nazi picnic?

No business should be forced to do business with anyone.

33 posted on 11/20/2016 5:56:39 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: HarleyD

In a true just world, a merchant should be able to refuse you to serve you for anything. It’s their establishment and your money they are knowingly turning away.

More nanny government nonsense.


34 posted on 11/20/2016 6:03:35 AM PST by Molon Labbie (In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
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To: OpusatFR

Find the one that Moochell is wearing what looks like a “pinata”. It’s the most horrible looking thing I’ve ever seen. Plus those outfits that Moochell looks like she has been melted and poured into them.


35 posted on 11/20/2016 6:04:43 AM PST by kagnew
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To: kagnew

If Moochelle weren’t the First Lady, there are many designers who would refuse to dress her for her size - it is not exactly great advertising.
Oh, I mean only if she were also white, of course.


36 posted on 11/20/2016 6:21:58 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: TigerClaws

I seldom go shopping, I know that is not normal for a woman, but I have health issue that keep me home malls are not handicap friendly.

I AVOID those cashiers in muslim dress like the plague. They won’t allow my carry gun in the mall, and I wear Christian T’s when I shop along with a large Cross. I also boycott business that don’t allow it or don’t say Merry CHRISTmas. My wallet speaks loudly.


37 posted on 11/20/2016 6:26:28 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: TigerClaws
Does that now apply to the artist who creates cakes? I mean, the artist who creates cakes should not have their brand associated with anyone or anything that violates their creativity standards.

Right???

38 posted on 11/20/2016 7:02:42 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: TigerClaws

You can’t always get what you don’t want?


39 posted on 11/20/2016 8:57:35 AM PST by Anima Mundi
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To: anton
I thought about that for a minute.

How about, I don't serve argumentative customers.

Which should get the customer argumentative.

40 posted on 11/20/2016 10:12:09 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof, but they're true.)
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