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Clothing store waives $20 appointment fee for black customers — but whites still have to pay up. And backlash is intense.
The Blaze ^ | August 17, 2020 | DAVE URBANSKI

Posted on 08/18/2020 4:40:57 AM PDT by gattaca

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To: gattaca
Store charges “White Tax”....seems there are laws against things like that.
21 posted on 08/18/2020 4:59:12 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: RealVirginia

No, gays


22 posted on 08/18/2020 5:01:44 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: gattaca

So if someone called in as a Native American, will the fee be waived? My last name is Italian, however it is also Spanish so could Mrs Deplorable say she is Hispanic and Waived the fee, too?


23 posted on 08/18/2020 5:05:00 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: Flick Lives

“... who might not be able to access vintage clothing ....”

Is something stopping anyone in the general public from walking into their store? These little dictators seem to want to pick and choose who gets to buy their junk. That might work in the exclusive, high end of retail, but is probably not a great business model for a glorified Goodwill store.


24 posted on 08/18/2020 5:05:15 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: gattaca

Dang. Who wrote that store’s comments? I don’t think they could have thrown any more progressive buzzwords in if they had tried!

Plus, where the heck did they get the vintage clothing they sell? Bet it wasn’t from persons of color!


25 posted on 08/18/2020 5:07:15 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: EEGator
White women should loot the store, then burn it to the ground.

Amazing the difference, isn't it? Some people have values when wronged, others just throw values out the window and act just like Satan when they feel they've been wronged. Few follow the Bible on anything any more.

26 posted on 08/18/2020 5:07:56 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: gattaca

So the Racists discriminate based on color?
Some lawyer is going to make a killing.


27 posted on 08/18/2020 5:08:14 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: gattaca
...the store's owners read, "It was not our intention to act in any way that might be perceived as discriminatory and for that we apologize."

How tone deaf (actually brain-dead) do you have to be to think that this is NOT discriminatory?

Rather ironic that this discrimination against white customers took place in the deep south. We are coming full-circle.

28 posted on 08/18/2020 5:09:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: gattaca

Civil Rights Act 1964

“full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, without discrimination or segregation on the grounds of race, color, religion or national origin.”


29 posted on 08/18/2020 5:11:00 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: gattaca

Back in the 80s and 90s, there was an uproar about affirmative action bake sales. Well, the clothing store is doing the same.


30 posted on 08/18/2020 5:11:55 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: SauronOfMordor

Their tourists, and I expect the store’s customer base, are majority white. And Chatham County is slightly majority white.


31 posted on 08/18/2020 5:12:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: gattaca
Not surprising given who they are:
We do not support white supremacy, racism, xenophobia, sexism, transphobia or homophobia in our store. We prioritize the comfort of our queer, trans, and intersex shoppers, as well as black folks, people of color, and femmes. We ask that you are respectful of all our customers and the cultures and identities that are represented in our merchandise. We do not have gendered sections.
They discriminate against whites from the get-go.
32 posted on 08/18/2020 5:12:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: 17th Miss Regt

You go to prison after being destroyed and broke.

Some animals are more equal than others.


33 posted on 08/18/2020 5:13:26 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: gattaca

“insulting to some black people, people of color and indigenous people” because it “felt like white saviorism.”

The unintended consequences are delicious.

Taste the agony of defeat, Civvies on Broughton.


34 posted on 08/18/2020 5:20:11 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: gattaca
we are taking a small step to restore that as a business to choose to wave this fee temporarily.

Why not take a BIG step and let colored people have your stuff for free? Come on, go big or go home.

35 posted on 08/18/2020 5:20:50 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: gattaca
"we believe that what we are doing is within the confines of the law."

I bet your lawyer doesn't................

36 posted on 08/18/2020 5:25:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: spincaster

“I am starting to hate them.”

You’re late to the dance. I’ve hated the left for decades.


37 posted on 08/18/2020 5:26:42 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: gattaca

I have never heard of a store charging its customers merely to come in and look around. Is that seriously a thing??


38 posted on 08/18/2020 5:27:03 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: gattaca

“However, the store said that white customers who don’t have $20 for an appointment can select the “don’t agree” on the booking form so the booking manager can reach out and come up with other options, WTOC-TV reported.”

Maybe agree to scrub the floors for a week?


39 posted on 08/18/2020 5:27:15 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here)
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To: SauronOfMordor

I agree that white patrons are being discriminated against. But don’t you dare use the word discriminate for anyone but blacks, they “own” it.

I will never forget an experience I had years ago. Macy’s always held One Day Sales on weekdays, and their $10 off coupons were only accepted between opening hours and 1pm. I asked to use the coupon when I arrived after 5, explaining that there was no way I could have come in that morning, and stated that working people were being discriminated against. The black manager loudly repeated and questioned my use of “discriminated”, then sarcastically laughed in my face as though I was the stupid one to misuse it for anyone but blacks.


40 posted on 08/18/2020 5:27:38 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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