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irisblue

(34,482 posts)
2. And I just ran across another one.
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 05:16 PM
Oct 2018

🤦🤦🤦

source-https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiarosenbaum/white-woman-harass-spanish-virginia-restaurant?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

snip-"In the video, the woman, whose identity was not known, screams obscenities at the Spanish-speaking woman who was dining at the restaurant with her 7-year-old child and other members of her family."

snip-"But in a Facebook post, the restaurant condemned the actions of the harassing woman, saying she will not be welcomed back at the establishment.

"Thank you — and we mean this with all the aforementioned respect that you rightfully deserve — for never returning to Andy’s," the restaurant said on Facebook. "You are not welcome."

The FB post-Andy's
on Saturday
Words of Thanks to a Former Customer

Thank you for understanding that you have a right to express your venomous and vitriolic views—no matter how odious and ignorant—under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Thank you for feeling sufficiently comfortable in those views to express them, thereby making a spectacle of yourself—and allowing all who witnessed “the incident” on October 19, 2018 to understand what a vile and loathsome individual you are.

Thank you for disrupting the rights of others who were enjoying an evening of camaraderie in a confined public space.

Thank you for strengthening our belief that all people have the right to pursue happiness, which is what they were in the process of doing when you chose to regale them with your idiotic values.

Thank you for using profanity in expressing your views.

Thank you for providing the employees of Andy’s with an opportunity to demonstrate the precepts of the common law behind that First Amendment, which indicate that although you have the right to declare your despicable views, you also have the obligation to bear the consequences for speaking them.

Thank you for showing us—through your actions—that all people have the right to be respected.

Thank you—and we mean this with all the aforementioned respect that you rightfully deserve—for never returning to Andy’s. You are not welcome."




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