Look, I don’t give a good $hit whether the victim was a man, a woman, or someone in between. What happened was unconscionable and criminal. I’ve been a Freeper for a good number of years, but when I read some of the posts suggesting that he/she somehow brought it upon him/herself, I feel as though I’m at DU. Moreover, most, if not all, of the fast food restrooms I’ve been in have been one-person deals. Whenever, the “mens room” in my local Dunkins is occupied, I liberate the ladies room. I guess I deserve a whuppin’ for that.
“Equality Maryland said the victim is a transgender woman...”
Oh, so NOW it becomes a hate crime...
Considering the strongly negative image it put McDonalds in, I’m not surprised they take it out on him.
Excellent decision.
The whole crew of employees should be fired. Is anyone so willfully blind that they did not know why those employees did not intervene?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
The franchisee said that his first concern was for the safety of his customers. Really! Then why did you turn your fast food establishment over to a group of idiots to operate. The first person that should have been fired was the manager/asst. manager on duty at the time of the incident for not immediately calling the police.
Instead they waited until they feared that the victim had been seriously injured before doing so. The entire staff should be fired and blackballed from ever working in a fast food establishment forever because any one of the employees could have called the police at the very beginning of the savage beating. The employees became complicit spectators thus encouraging the beating to continue. The elderly lady that tried to intervene had more courage and sense than the entire staff combined.
Without the change calculator built into the registers, none of the employees would be qualified to work in the establishment. It has made it possible for imbeciles to be hired and the owner is protected for losses.
I found, however, that I could not "toe the party line" (due in part to a libertarian shift in my world view over the last half decade among other things) on some issues any longer and rather than invite rebuke upon myself here, I simply moved on to other sites.
By happenstance, I came across this thread in a Google search related to the Polis beating and against my better judgment, succumbed to the temptation to read it hoping to be surprised. Occasionally I was but mostly I saw the same sort of, I'll use the word "unfortunate" comments I'd expected.
Naively, I decided to create a new account to comment. I did not wish to "pick up the baton" of this account again. I posted several comments in this thread. None of them belligerent or attacking, none in bad faith, all with respect, all in an effort to be informative and pose a counter-point to the poster to whom I replied.
In one I offered a VERY mild jab at the logic of the poster to whom I replied but it was so gentle as to not possibly have violated any policy and I've seen MUCH worse here.
Oddly, by the time I'd finished less than half a dozen posts, I'd found my posting privileges revoked, and my entirely inoffensive remarks deleted.
I'll tell you frankly, as I wrote to Jim - THAT sort of censorship is EXACTLY what we rightly mock and deride leftists for. That sort of suppression of an unpopular comment is EXACTLY the sort of thing that those of us on the right who profess to be freedom loving normally abhor.
and it's exactly the sort of hypocrisy my friends on the left accuse sites like this of, in the face of my defense.
Am I saying that ANY comment should stand unmoderated? of course not. what I am saying is that the only thing wrong with my deleted posts is that they expressed a minority view on this situation. Most of them were nothing more than correcting some misinformation which had been posted here about the nature of the transsexual phenomena (not even advocating for "rights" or anything - just providing correct information).
I'd have liked to have believed that the posters at FR are smart and savvy enough to not need to be coddled and protected from such information. I'd like to think the membership that was aware of the deletions would be outraged. Perhaps I had too high an expectation.
Count yourself lucky if you get to read this post before the kindly Administrator comes along to delete it and revoke the posting privileges of this account as well.
There are lots of good folks here. My best wishes to all yall.