Posted on 01/24/2019 8:31:22 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
An Army veteran claims he was asked to remove his Trump 2016 T-shirt because he was making other gym members “uncomfortable.”
Jake Talbot told KMOV-TV that he wore a shirt that read “2016 Trump for President” to CDY Fitness in Troy, Missouri, on Sunday. He claims the owner approached him and asked him to not wear the shirt again because it was offensive to her and other gym members.
“I was just puzzled there for a second. She said that it was racist and represents racism and that’s when I when I was like ‘oh, you’re done," Talbot told the news station.
Talbot, who is reportedly an army veteran, said he has worn the shirt many times before to the gym and never had a problem until Sunday. He posted a 20-second video to Facebook following the incident.
“The owner Liz came up to me and said that Trump shirt I had on was offensive and said I needed to remove it in order to work out there, and that it is linked to racism. I hate the word, its used way too loosely. It’s 2019, get the hell over it, it’s not racism,” Talbot said....
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Do that to me and you refund my membership fee and issue a written apology.
Maybe they had reason to feel “uncomfortable”. Don’t you remember all those Trump supporters waiting outside Hillary rallies to assault her supporters in 2016? < / sarcasm >
(Hey, these weights are too heavy and hurt my biceps; it's too hot in here, I'm not comfortable; this stairmaster is making my thighs ache - it's uncomfortable...)
Oh, it’s racist huh? How do you explain all of the black Americans seen a wearing MAGA hats/shirts? You can find dozens of them on YouTube alone.
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He needs a MAGA hat to go with that shirt. Double down...they would.
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Too funny...Backfires in the leftist faces yet again.
He should have asked the gym owner to surrender his Man Tackle.
Do that to me and you'll face a public accommodations lawsuit and you'll either shut up or I'll end up owning your business. (Well, me and my lawyer. Mostly my lawyer...)
If they can chant "bake that cake!" then we can chant "pump that iron!"
I do not understand this sequence:
1) “This may be your lunch counter, but I can sit here if I want to, and you cannot deny me service just because of the color of my skin.”
2) “This may be your bakery, but I can order a pro-homosexual cake, and you have to bake it even if it offends you.”
3) “This may be your gym, but I can wear a shirt that supports our elected president if I want to.” -— NO YOU CAN’T!!!!!
As far as I am concerned, if someone accused me of being racist because I wear a MAGA cap or a Trump t-shirt, they have defamed my character without cause. They know nothing about me aside from the cap /shirt I wear. I might be for Trump because he is a real estate investor. I might have liked his TV show. They might be offended by it all day long, but to say that I am racist does damage to the public perception of my character with no cause of saying it. I say it should be litigated.
“The owner Liz came up to me and said that Trump shirt I had on was offensive and said I needed to remove it in order to work out there, and that it is linked to racism. I hate the word, its used way too loosely. It’s 2019, get the hell over it, it’s not racism,” Talbot said.
As long as we react defensively whenever they toss around the word “racism” we lose. We just help them weaponize the insult.
It’s time we embrace the insult, that’s the only way to defang it.
I’d be very tempted to go back with a Confederate Battle Flag hat and shirt on.
With a lawyer on speed dial itching to make an example of these communists.
You want to really cause cognitive dissonance in them?
Wear a Che t-shirt & a MAGA hat!
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