The Red Hen and the Resistance

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | June 27, 2018 | Ross Douthat, The New York Times

[2ndDivisionVet]

In almost every opinion on the restaurant that famously refused to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders, there is a too-neat congruence between the moral argument and the meta-political argument. If you think it’s right and just and admirable to deprive a Trump administration mouthpiece of an evening out in polite society, you probably also think that this sort of direct action is the vital spark that the left needs to mobilize and defeat Trumpism outright.

On the other hand, if you think that the restaurant owner committed an obnoxious breach of the basic bipartisan civility that prevents our empire from becoming 1990s Yugoslavia, you probably think that what she did was basically an in-kind donation to the Trump re-election effort as well.

It should be possible, though, to mix and match — to feel a certain sympathy or admiration for the restaurateur’s non serviam, but also to believe that its wider application by the Resistance wouldn’t do anti-Trump forces any good....

[Impala64ssa]

“Who will help me destroy my lucrative business?” said the little Red Hen. They’re doing a damn good job of it on their own.

[mrsmel]

I agree. And as was said, she politely left, she didn’t call the nearest ambulance chaser to destroy her.

[livius]

You’re correct.

One of the hard-left slogans during the 60s and 70s was “the personal is the political.” In other words, whatever you did privately was political and had to be in accordance with the Party and subject to its dictates. It had to be PC, politically correct, in other words.

Leftists just run panting to subject themselves to tyranny, and they internalize it so much that there is no sane and neutral civil space in their minds.

[golux]

It seems to me that the joke is on the "Rosses" of the world. Nobody reads the New York Times anymore. Nobody outside the hemp-clad, jeans and leather jacket wearing losers at Ozzies in Brooklyn or their parents in their rent-controlled sublet East-side apartments (oh! For the poor!) care at all what New Yorkers think about Trump. Nobody Cares. Nobody. They're like the "cool kids" in school whose clique gets smaller and smaller until they're the only three or four kids who haven't made anything of themselves - who still live in town - and who are "too cool" to make it to the reunion. After a while, nobody gives a damn.

[bigbob]

Every day, every incident still boils down to this: the Left simply does not understand the values, needs, and wishes of the majority of Americans. If they did, they would not be doing many of the things they do.

I suspect many of us had doubts during the Obamanation, but the triumph of Trump restored our faith.

As long as democrats pursue self-destructive tactics it just proves that Hillary is not the only one that can’t “move on”.

[dirtboy]

She tweeted about it early the next morning:

https://twitter.com/presssec/status/1010536237457924096

[catnipman]

“I kinda hope they keep it up, they are only driving more people to the right, and solidifying the ones already here.”

absolutely ...

[CedarDave]

And if I were making a list of Trump administration officials who deserve to feel the sting of public censure, the office of the press secretary is actually a reasonable place to start. That’s because Ms. Sanders, while no doubt a good mother and kind person in the private aspects of her life, occupies a job that is inseparable from the aspect of the Trump presidency that even people who agree with some of his policymaking should find deplorable — the aspect that deals with public truth and falsehood.

Yeah, tell how you really feel Ross. Your call for civility only applies to those who you approve of or have no opinion. Anyone associated with the Trump administration is fair game, especially those with a high profile and who call out the purveyors of "fake news."

Your elitist position atop the newspaper of record blinds you to what is occurring outside your small bubble. You can not understand the crowds that attend rallies like that in Fargo this week. To process this large question, it brings you to agree with Hillary's "basket of deplorables." Trump derangement syndrome occupies you and you can not wrap your mind about it. US life outside of NYC is as foreign to you as modern life is to Amazon natives.

[alexander_busek]

[...] of the basic bipartisan civility that prevents our empire from becoming [...]

Our empire?!

Regards,

[Kickass Conservative]

That was after one of the Service Staff proudly announced what they did to Sarah. They fired the first shot.

[taterjay]

.to force their opinion onto you and limit your freedom of choice.

Exactly right. The restaurant not only did not want to serve Sarah, they did not want her to eat anywhere.

[gunnyg]

Grok!
+++++++

[mrsmel]

All he and his kind are saying really, is that if you don’t agree with them 100%, you have, or should have, no right to say so. Even more, you should be forced to express their opinions in lieu of your own (like they try to force Christian business owners to do). It’s not even enough for these Stalinists to suppress our speech, they go further and want to force us to speak theirs.

[JohnEBoy]

I have seen some people/articles talk about how things will go when the publicity of this incident “dies down”. I think the name is so unique, “Red Hen Restaurant”, that I believe it will be a long time before people forget about this incident.

And people will continue to leave 1 star reviews on Yelp. The restaurant folks can tell themselves “well everyone will know that it’s just the haters” but after awhile, someone that doesn’t know about the notoriety will look up the Red Hen, and Red Hen will have lost another customer. The capitalist system is working.

By the way, per articles I have read, they have still not reopened. The wait staff that probably thinks they should be making $15/hr, so far has made zip for the last week.

[SamAdams76]

What if I ran a company and I put on my job application a checkbox for how one voted in the 2016 election. Then refused to hire anybody who voted for Clinton. Would I get in trouble for that?

[precisionshootist]

Ya I think the owner wanted to show how she kicked that awful Sarah out of her respectful eatery. It backfired big time.

[Harpotoo]

Didn’t the owner get kicked out of some club for business owner and didn’t she shut down her restaurant? Consequences!

[ontap]

Fact is everything is working out just fine...owner got to show her idiocy and customers are showing her the results of her idiocy!!!

[Sivad]

To respect your opponent enough to allow them a life
away from work used to be a thing. Since it no longer
is I have to assume that Maxine Waters will be getting
a giant taste of her own medicine.

[PCPOET7]

Something I figured out the other day and is not being mentioned in the media by talking heads is that the decision for kicking Sara Sanders and her dining group was probably preplanned days before it happened.

The restaurant had the Sanders reservation for a week before they showed up at the restaurant.

When refused service the family went to another restaurant to eat but was fallowed by the owner and other protesters to the other restaurant.

How long does it take for a group of protesters to show up at the invitation of a phone call to protest.This was not spontaneous if this was sparked by the owner calling friends at the last Minuit

Organizing would taken longer then the meal to get people together to protest.

this is my speculation of what happened

The sanders family showed up and that instead of the owner kicking them out it was going to be costumers making a stink and demanding that the family Leave but the costumers or protester did not arrive on time so the owner kicked her out.

After the family left the person who was suppose to make the big stink arrived and the person not happy that they did not get to play there role of annoyed customer so they fallowed the Saanders family over to the other restaurant to protest. the restaurant owner then fallowed that group over and joined in.

I believe that this refusal was coordinate with Maxine waters