Posted on 11/20/2016 3:10:46 AM PST by TigerClaws
To the many things the Trump administration in waiting has made cool again, add private businesses refusing service to customers based on moral objections.
Friday, fashion designer Sophie Theallet, who has dressed the current first lady Michelle Obama, offered a preemptive refusal to hypothetically dress the next first lady, Melania Trump, should she ask for some of her clothes— presumably not the ones available at The Gap. In her unsolicited letter, Theallet informed the world that a person who did not ask for any of her clothes would not be getting them.
“As one who celebrates and strives for diversity, individual freedom and respect for all lifestyles, I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady,” the letter reads. “The rhetoric of racism, sexism, and xenophobia unleashed by her husband’s presidential campaign are incompatible with the shared values we live by.”
“I encourage my fellow designers to do the same,” it goes on.
In refusing service to Trump, Theallet appealed to “individual freedom” and the idea of her art as an expression of the company’s “artistic and philosophical ideals.” Her announcement was called “noble,” “patriotic,” and “admirable integrity.”
But a producer cannot boycott a brand of customer ?
Equal protection under the law.
I don’t think Melania will be missing much. Sophie Theallet’s clothes are that great.
Ask the bakery in Colorado that question!
“are” should be “aren’t”
Christian bakers can refuse to service to homosexuals and are sued for everything they have because they’ve discriminated. Yet let the left refuse service and it’s suddenly “cool”. Generals are punished for allowing classified documents to be reviewed by people who do not have a need to know but politicians can float this all over the place and others will defend them.
There is no equal justice under the law.
...”but that’s different” is one of the primary tenets of the left.
As one who celebrates and strives for diversity, individual freedom and respect for all lifestyles, except for ones I personally disagree with
Isn't that what cost photographers and bakers their businesses recently? And now it's OK. Nothing like watching hypocrisy in action.
Melania doesn’t need to wear plus-sized Lane Bryant clothing, like size 18 Michelle does. Melania also doesn’t wear size 12 shoes like Michelle does. ST is a designer for big women with a taste for racing stripes and boob belts. I don’t think she and Melania would ever be a “fit”.
The rules only apply to them if it agrees with them
...or the seventy year old Florist in Washington State.
She’s the one who clothed Michelle?
The clothes were awful, just gross.
I wonder if she’s the designer of that hideous boob belt?
This needs to change.
Is there a law on any book of laws that says I as a non-federal, non-state, non-township, non-borough, non—village employee must serve every person who presents at my store where I sell “whatever”? And then, adding crap to crap, any law that says that I must create for that person I do not want to serve, an artifact or food I find morally or ethically unacceptable?
I must buy licenses to sell anything (costing me money, not the demander of the taxes). My establishment must be clean and fit the standards of cleanliness established by the state or feds—all at my cost. And we are happy to do that because we are proud of our products and want to have people who buy be happy, too. But...
If someone comes in and demands a cake depicting a couple copulating in flagrantly obscene pose, must I create that cake? If someone comes in an asks for an ISIS flag on the top of a statue I have carved of Washington crossing the Delaware, must I carve that flag?
Whose standards are we obeying? My ethical/spiritual/religious standards or the “states”?
Who do those people work for anyway, why is their PC of more importance than mine and who says I must serve those whose Ideas I personally despise?
I think somehow this idea of forbidding denial of service has gotten out of hand.
Technically, you can't refuse service until your service is requested. Since this Sophie person is trying a new marketing campaign aimed at liberals, large women and bigots by saying she would not provide clothing for a potential customer, she is desperately attempting to make herself relevant at the same time.
Maybe she can design costumes for the bigots at "Hamilton".
Designer hates immigrants
If I am at a place where they do not want to serve me, fine. I will take me and my money somewhere else.
Twenty four year old nobodies threaten to kill Trump and are arrested, CEOs of companies who do the same are fired or resign but still walk free.
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