Posted on 05/01/2019 10:49:14 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Sales Now Skyrocketing
A sticker at an Illinois hamburger restaurant is getting a lot of attention.
A bumper sticker at Gross Burgers says, “If you can’t read this, thank a Marine.” There is Arabic writing on the sticker.
The owner of Gross Burgers, Brad Gross,says the sticker has been up for YEARS, given to him by a marine who served in Iraq. He’s never had a problem until now.
According to WCIA-TV:
Some say this message is offensive because it makes it seem like there’s something wrong with speaking Arabic–or we are protected from people who speak Arabic because of the Armed Forces.
The backlash has been rather harsh.
According to this:
A customer of the Danville burger joint posted a photo of the sign on Facebook last week, slamming the sticker – which includes the acronym for the United States Marine Corp – as “absolutely disgusting.”
“If you can read it, thank yourself for being a multicultural human and not a xenophobic garbage human,” read one comment on Facebook.
“Come for the burgers, stay for the blatant racism!” wrote another.
Sam Schnelle, the customer who posted the complaint, also called the restaurant, alleging the manager said they would “certainly not” be taking down the now controversial sticker.
He’s standing firm. Brad says it was never meant to be hurtful, and he has no reason to back down.
The owner of Gross Burgers, Brad Gross, says the sticker was not meant to be offensive. “The bumper sticker has been in my restaurant for more than a decade from a Marine that served in Iraq. He brought it in and asked me to put it up, and I said sure go ahead and put it up and it’s been there for all these years,” says Gross. Despite recent flack about the sticker–Gross says a lot of people in the community have still been supportive.
In fact, BPR notes that business has been booming and that supporters have been very vocal:
“It’s not about speaking another language. Be fluent in as many [ways] as you want. That’s great. But the sign is about being under a Muslim law or Sharia law & government that would make us write Arabic and abide by their laws,” one person wrote. “We need to thank our military we are not forced to be under that type of law.”
“Learn the history of the restaurant, Marine owned and operated. Get over it.”
Gross Burgers even apparently sold out of their signature item this weekend, as community members come out to show their support.
So, what do you think? Is the sticker inappropriate? Or is this just another case of Leftists finding reasons to be offended?
Liberals are offended by this and want to get rid of it. I’m offended by liberals and want to get rid of them...
God bless this guy. These Leftist thought police only have power in the USA if we cede it to them, which is what happens far too often.
If I lived anywhere near there, I’d go grab a quick burger!!!!
My kind of burger joint. May the owner live long and prosper.
That is so good.
Glad to see the owner doesn’t care what the snowflakes think.
Stay tuned for Chik filA effect.
I wish I lived nearby. I’d eat there often.
We could do to The angriest of the libs what ISIS does to ‘incidels’ and mount the heads on a poke outside the restaurant so the others get the message that there is still a 1st amendment for everyone
since when is it racist to fight to keep our country from being overtaken by nations run by islam, or ANY OTHER hostile nation? Because that is all the sticker was talking about-
Only sad part of the story is that the place isn’t in road trip distance for me or I’d go there to support them.
Worst part for libs is that the sticker also relates to mostly real men, something the left’s snowflakes will never be. That includes some of their “women.”
Yes. Move all progressives in the country into one mega city with all the welfare, gun confiscation, AntiFa riots and free abortions they want. Then build a wall around it.
America haters go so far out of their way to be offended for some publicity. Millions of places to get a burger so instead of going to another they harass one like this for their liberal exposure. Kind of like the morons shopping for a baker to not bake them a cake by passing by untold number of bakeries that don’t give a rats asz about their preferences.
Well, we are.
DON'T GO BACK THERE TO EAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T GO BACK THERE TO EAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T GO BACK THERE TO EAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
move on to some other place....
I’d be a regular customer if it were close to me.
You all know what comes next. Escalation up to the point where the tolerant, inclusive yet triggered snowflakes will burn the place down.
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