Posted on 06/26/2018 8:59:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WHEN STEPHANIE WILKINSON, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave that dining establishment last Friday, she opened up yet another front in America’s ongoing cultural war.
Those on the right and some on the left have bemoaned the decline in civility reflected by Wilkinson’s decision. “Let the Trump team eat in peace,” wrote the Washington Post editorial board, which expressed concern that “justifying” such “incivility” will leave only the most “zealous” to pursue a career in public service.
“Kind of amazed and appalled by the number of folks on Left who applauded the expulsion of @PressSec and her family from a restaurant,” tweeted former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod. “This, in the end, is a triumph for @realDonaldTrump[’s] vision of America: Now we’re divided by red plates & blue plates!”
These arguments are understandable. Norm-shredding begets more norm-shredding; incivility begets more incivility, and it is anyone’s guess to where this path will lead us. The problem, however, is that we are already on a dangerous, anti-democratic road.
And Wilkinson — in a singular act of civil, political protest — has offered a useful, alternative path forward.
In an interview with the Washington Post, she said that several of her employees are gay and are bothered by Sanders’ defense of the president’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. Others are troubled by Sanders’ complicity with the White House’s monstrous family separation policy....
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Having seen the poop covered canopy , peeling paint. and April inspector report that shutdown the kitchen for rat infestation - i lost my appetite to eat out anywhere
Well said. This idiot restaurant owner may well suffer loss of business. Actions have consequences. She doesn’t have a constitutional right to a profitable business. We can’t be required to patronize her business.
A good point for comparison. Jews were forced to identify themselves but conservatives are not (yet?). If SHS had been a less publicly recognized member of the Trump Administration, the Red Hen owner would not have known to discriminate against her and would probably have happily served the Sanders party and wished them well.
It must really grate on Wilkinson to think of how many unidentified Trumpers she may unknowingly be serving in the future, now that battle lines have been drawn.
Isn’t discrimination based on sexual orientation banned? Let’s be honest here, Wilkinson admitted discrimination.
Same here.
There’s been a tidal wave of immigration to Boston since the Revolutionary War friend. The chance of one of those commentators being descended from the Minutemen is about the same as it would be in Des Moines or Bakersfield.
Added my review for the Red Hen. :>)
“The food stinks, the employees are rude.” Plain and simple.
“To man, you must be a man!”
Wouldn’t it be fun for a Trumper who has dined there in the past go back to the Red Hen and ask to be kicked out retroactively?
I think the Red Hen laid a goose-egg with this move.
I heard too, that some in the group with Sarah were family members, who are more on the liberal side politically. So Red Hen actually turned away business from some in the group who agree with them politically, all to make their political statement against Trump.
Will the Red Hen be packed this weekend, or will the Red Hen have lots of empty tables?
Hopefully packed full of libs, who are notorious for being high-maintenance and poor tippers.
The Red Hen may be packed this weekend...and next, but eventually they will return to baseline.
Minus conservatives. Like Target. That is what happened to them, they had a spike in traffic and sales when they announced their transgender policy, then when the pitch died down, and the one time leftist shoppers left for good, they were left with what they had before...minus many conservatives.
I’ll pass on the clam sauce.
“The Red Hen may be packed this weekend...and next, but eventually they will return to baseline.”
I think their baseline prior to this incident was almost all tables taken and they were turning away reservations.
Will be packed. In two months not so much. In three there will be a bankruptcy. Hoisted on their own petard.
“...Sanders’ complicity with the White House’s monstrous family separation policy..”
Boston Globule.
“We can’t be required to patronize her business.”
And we can also encourage others not to eat there too.
As we should.
Think they’re having a closing ceremony instead (hope hope hope).
I once sold an antique 19th century magazine article about the Boston Tea Party to a man in Wisconsin.
His last name was Sprague; his great-great-great-great-great (I forget how many greats) grandfather was a member of the original Boston Tea Party. His ancestor was a teenage boy who dressed up as an Indian, boarded an English ship, and split open crates of tea with a small ax or hatchet and dumped the contents in Boston harbor back in the 1700’s.
As you clearly implied, people over the years moved and spread out all over the country.
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