Posted on 06/29/2019 8:53:15 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Stephanie Wilkinson is the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA. That’s the restaurant that refused service to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders last June. Friday, the Washington Post published a piece in which Wilkinson offers her thoughts on the recent spitting incident involving Eric Trump. You’ll be shocked to learn that Wilkinson is for it (or at least willing to defend it) though it takes her a while to admit it.
After recounting what happened to Trump, she writes, “no one in the industry condones the physical assault of a patron.” That seems sensible but we’re only halfway through the piece. Next comes the justification for the new rules:
…at bottom this isn’t about politics. It’s about values, and accountability to values, in business. On a variety of levels, pressure is increasing on companies to articulate and stand by a code. Customers are demonstrating that they want to patronize companies that share their values. Our workforce also increasingly demands that employers establish a set of ethical standards. The once-ubiquitous idea that companies exist purely and solely to provide profit to shareholders is withering away like corn husks in the summer sun.
The rules have shifted. It’s no longer okay to serve sea bass from overfished waters or to allow smoking at the table. It’s not okay to look away from the abusive chef in the kitchen or the handsy guest in the dining room. And it’s not okay to ask employees, partners or management to clock out of their consciences when they clock in to work…
The high-profile clashes rarely involve one citizen fussing at another over the entrees. It’s more often a frustrated person (some of whom are restaurant employees) lashing out at the representatives of an administration that has made its name trashing norms and breaking backs. Not surprising, if you think about it: You can’t call people your enemies by day and expect hospitality from them in the evening.
So when the day comes that the world feels returned to its normal axis, I expect we’ll see fewer highly charged encounters making headlines. In the meantime, the new rules apply. If you’re directly complicit in spreading hate or perpetuating suffering, maybe you should consider dining at home.
Like 10,000 resistance progressives before her, Wilkinson is claiming that Trump grants the left an exception to all the normal rules of social conduct. No one is for assaulting strangers in restaurants, she says, but on the other hand, he’s a Trump so the new rules apply.
It never seems to occur to any of these folks that this same logic could be applied to literally any other group of people with regrettable results. In fact, I’m certain a similar strain of logic is floating through the brains of the idiots responsible for the recent spate of attacks on Jewish people in New York. The attackers would never attack a stranger on the street, but in this special case, the rules have shifted.
As for values, politics often has a lot to do with our values. Pick any hot-button political issue and you could reduce it to a conflict of values. Abortion is a conflict between the value to privacy/self-determination and the value of human life. Most people value both but when they are in conflict, some value one more than the other.
In general, different people will value different things but we all agree those differences don’t make it okay to assault everyone who feels differently in public. Some of the people we disagree with may even have obnoxious values we dislike intensely. Based on the piece above, I’d put Stephanie Wilkinson in that category. Her views are corrosive to the concept of a shared public space that is fundamental to civilization. But the fact that she’s wrong about that is not a green light to harass her in public or spit on her at a restaurant. She shouldn’t be in fear of a public assault if she steps out her door. And that’s the point: Neither should Eric Trump.
There are no new rules. The same old rules of civil conduct in public places still apply to everyone. Anyone asking for special permission to unleash their id in public because of their values needs to think about what happens when everyone decides to do that. Because once you erode that principle of civility, it won’t just be people who dislike Donald Trump who decide to express their values through an assault. It doesn’t appear to me that Stephanie Wilkinson has thought very deeply about that.
Never heard “Red Hen” before. The place must be a damn DUMP.
Leftists talk sh*t and hide behind their safe spaces. They think they are insulated. We are a slow burn and they keep pushing. She has no idea that it goes both ways and anything can happen. It would be unfortunate if.....(fill in the blank).Karma is a b*tch and so is this POS owner.
Never heard “Red Hen” before. The place must be a damn DUMP.
Helpful Troll is always so helpful.
Law and order is certainly not about peaceful coexistence with the left who are lawless by dogma.
John Adams said that “(o)ur constitution was made only for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”—but that does not mean that it is inadequate to the punishment of the aforementioned “other”.
She’s a Nazi.
I truly hope you left out the /s
Nice restaurant ya got there, Steph.
Be a damn shame if something happened to it....just saying’.
What are FR’s policies regarding the PoPos shooting and killing citizens exercising their rights of free assembly?
Excellent post and pertains to what I wrote in a post in an Antifa thread.
It doesn’t take a genius to know why the lunatic left attacks Real Americans. Because they CAN. And they know they will suffer absolutely no blowback for their actions.
In the Red Hen incident, Sarah Sanders, as much as I hate to say this, behaved cowardly. She should have gotten in the face of that b***h Wilkinson and her employees.
For god’s sake, after Sanders’ party left the Red Hen, Wilkinson and her fellow terrorists followed them to another restaurant and continued with the harassment. Wilkinson suffered absolutely no repercussions for her actions.
At the very least, Sanders should have sued Wilkinson and her thug employees into oblivion.
Conservatives are too obsessed with being “nice” and turning the other cheek. How many cheeks can one turn?
I believe a Second Civil War is coming. Patriots should and could win that war but, sadly, I doubt that we would. Because conservatives just don’t want to fight.
I read posts on Twitter and stories on FR about violent Leftist moonbats attacking normal people but the moonbats are never punished.
I hate to say this but my outrage is turning into White Hot Hatred for the Left. I n my lifetime,I have never felt such hatred. It would be nice, for just once, to see the left get what they deserve.
Here’s a flash - we’re NOT stupid thugs like democrats.
Look at the average prison or jail - they’re filled with democrats... Less then 3% of prison inmates are Republicans. Is that a hint maybe?
“Stupid thug” isn’t our style ... so stop with the weird calls to violence. Or check out Democrat underground where Antifa thugs beat up people they disagree with.
NOT our style.
Sugar in her gas tank?
“Red Hen Restaurant Owner: Maybe Trump’s People Deserve To Be Spit On”
At some point this behavior will have to be addressed in an appropriate manner.
It’s different for normal people. People who have jobs and families and responsibilities.I can’t explain it, other than with leftists, their activities are sort of like the temperature, it fluctuates, ebbs and flows.
Normal people simply have ON and OFF, that’s it, and nobody will be able to stop it, and they won’t stop. That’s how it’s always been for thousands of years.
You haven’t seen anything yet. You’ll know it when it happens. “Be careful what you wish for”. I include myself in that category. Stay safe.
Horse-whipping is appropriate.
where is an arsonist when required?
Its not a very big place from
what i’ve read. My best guess
is it seats 26 for liberal
chicken and they’re only open
for dinner. They serve up what
I call frilly food.
Yep...that about sums it up. If people aren’t fighting back now... they never will.
Thank you.
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