"It hasn't happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren't getting served. Same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate," Lopez-Alt tweeted.So how did this go over? Well apparently the restaurant's Facebook and Yelp pages were so quickly overloaded with negative comments, that the social media sites were forced to shut down the comment sections.
Later Lopez-Alt apologized.
"I want to start by apologizing to my staff and partners at Wursthall. Making a public statement without taking my team's thoughts into consideration was disrespectful and reckless," he wrote. "My goal at Wursthall was for it to be a restaurant where all employees and staff are treated with respect and trust, and by making that public statement without your consent, I failed at that goal. I will work hard to earn back that trust."
"Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts," he added. "After having seen the red hat displayed so prominently in so many moments of anger, hate, and violence, to me — and many others — the hat began to symbolize exactly that: anger, hate, and violence. This was the context my tweet was meant to communicate. Unfortunately, the way I tried to communicate this ended up only amplifying the anger, and I apologize for that. "So herein lies the main issue. Lopez-Alt doesn't seem to distinguish the difference between people wearing the hat engaging in anger, hate, and violence... and anger, hate, and violence being a reaction to people wearing the hat.
Ultimately it's not the people wearing the hat that engage in this behavior. It's the people reacting to it. So as a restaurateur, if you were looking to establish a safe haven for everyone, then your tweet would suggest that you are tolerant to all political viewpoints, but intolerant to anyone engaging in hatred, bigotry, or violence aimed at those who express a political view different than yours. In other words, you start something because of what someone else is wearing, then you get the boot (not the person who is making a non-violent political statement).
In other words, a restaurateur should follow the same believe that our American constitutions provides, which is an absolute tolerance to non-violent freedom of speech, and intolerance to those who attempt to squelch free speech through violence and intimidation.
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YAWN!!!!!! MAWA is Mon Petit scotty's mantra.....
Get Woke go Broke.
The Rams never had a chance to Win.
Alky , picked them to Win.
Has Virginia's 4th Term abortion advocate been Aborted yet?
Has Virginia's 4th Term abortion advocate been Aborted yet?
Have you sucked on a pistol yet????? Asshole NO ONE ADVOCATES THAT.....Only willfully ignorant assholes put that BS forward...
I think everybody would be better off if you don't mix politics with business.
I remember Duck and cover. And sirens at noon on Friday.
The U.S. Department of Energy has started making a new, low-yield nuclear weapon designed to counter Russia.
The National Nuclear Security Administration says production of the weapon, known as the W76-2, has begun at its Pantex Plant in the Texas Panhandle. The fact that the weapon was under production was first shared in an e-mail to the Exchange Monitor, an industry trade magazine, and independently confirmed by NPR.
Buried In Trump's Nuclear Report: A Russian Doomsday Weapon
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Buried In Trump's Nuclear Report: A Russian Doomsday Weapon
The weapon is a variant of the Navy's primary submarine-launched nuclear weapon, the W76-1. That warhead is a "strategic weapon," meaning it makes a very big boom. The W76-1 is believed to have a yield of around 100 kilotons, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the nuclear information project at the Federation of American Scientists, an arms control advocacy group. By contrast, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of about 15 kilotons.
The Energy Department would not provide details about the W76-2, but it's believed to have a yield of around 5 to 7 kilotons, Kristensen says. That smaller yield is probably created by removing or disabling the secondary stage of the W76-1. The secondary is designed to deliver a large thermonuclear blast triggered by a much smaller nuclear weapon known as the primary. Removing or disabling the secondary while leaving the primary would, in effect, create a smaller weapon.
Last year the Trump administration made the case for the development of a smaller nuclear weapon that could be launched from a submarine. In a document known as the Nuclear Posture Review, the administration claimed that Russia believed its own, smaller nuclear weapons could give it an advantage in a conflict. By using small, tactical nuclear weapons, the thinking goes, Russia could essentially scare NATO into halting a military operation. "[Moscow] mistakenly assesses that the threat of nuclear escalation or actual first use of nuclear weapons would serve to 'de-escalate' a conflict on terms favorable to Russia,"
It's time to build your fallout shelter
To expand on CH's larger point, this is what happens when you have a bias unbalanced news media.
The media abhors violance by nationalist and extreme right-wing groups. Which is why you almost never see violence by these people.
However, they wink at if not actively encourage violance against conservatives and nationalist groups. Consequently the violance against these groups is frequent and common place.
Antifa is celebrated by the left-wing establishment.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/28/689510716/trump-administration-begins-production-of-a-new-nuclear-weapon?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR02gypEyCdOxOPWoalCMmrmhgCw-pkC2roUvTcE9VbAw1VhJizlMhzKB7I
Which is why you almost never see violence by these people.
Oklahoma City bombing was by a right wing nut job. McVeigh
"Antifa is celebrated by the left-wing establishment."?
You are increasingly insane.
No PhD in economics .
Too funny.
Epic failure on Rogers Part. Again.
Oklahoma City bombing was by a right wing nut job. McVeigh
If you have to go back 30+ years to cite an example you may want to considered that you don't have much of an argument.
Nuclear weapons takes far more than two years to develope.
Roger is in terror. Bunker boy.
How many nation states went nuclear during the Lost Years?
KD said...
No PhD in economics
While you have a Ph D in stupidity.....congrats, it probably took you 5 years to get it>>>!!!
If you have to go back 30+ years to cite an example
Really? Charlottesville and those good nazis running people over????? David Duke and trumps denial knowing who he is??? LOLOLOL
The Charlottesville protesters in question were wearing swastikas and hoods, not MAGA hats.
But thanks for proving my point.
As much as you would like to simply lump the 16 year old kid wearing a MAGA hat and marching in a pro-life rally with the skin-head with the Swastika tattoo on his chest, that simply isn't reality. It's a straw-man.
And it should go without saying that the Oklahoma bombing was not inspired by the MAGA movement.
The only issue is whether or not you get more violence "from" those wearing a MAGA hat, or more violence "aimed at" those wearing those hats. Nazi's, Skinheads, and KKK members are irrelevant to that conversation.
Alky Stupid only Trumped by oDopie.
were wearing swastikas and hoods, not MAGA hats
Yeah, that's a whole lot better Mon Petit Scotty....
simply lump the 16 year old kid wearing a MAGA
That is simple stupid Mon Petie Scotty.....you don't need much to see the 16 year old kid is a bigoted MAWA hat wearer....His parent should be proud.....LOLOLOL
Oklahoma bombing was not inspired by the MAGA movement.
It was inspired by racism and hatred... the things that I see the MAWA hat represents.....
Keep digging and rationalizing your own bigotry, Mon Petit Scotty....you represent everything that is wrong with the US!!!!
get more violence "from" those wearing a MAGA hat
Did I ever mention the destruction of my cars bumper by some asshole trying to scrap off a hillary sticker???? What ever you say, Mon Petite Scotty because you are always of the correct opinion.....BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
"Antifa is celebrated by the left-wing establishment."?
You are increasingly insane.
cnn's fredo cuomo compared antifa to soldiers storming the beaches on D-Day, alky:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/401699-cnns-cuomo-defends-antifa-those-who-oppose-hate-are-on-the-side-of-right
Cuomo once compared anti-fascist members to allied troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day to fight Nazi soldiers in World War II in a tweet in August 2017:
and mcveigh was no right-winger. that's a myth that began when bill clinton blamed the bombing on rush limbaugh.
and mcveigh was no right-winger.
He was a registered republican and NRA card carrying member.....Plus he hated the government like all extremists....
lo iq Unknown said "Did I ever mention the destruction of my cars bumper by some asshole trying to scrap off a hillary sticker????"
Obviously a "Feel the Bern" supporter, and the damage was when you put it on.
Or maybe you just don't remember scraping it off yourself when you were embarrassed she lost and going batshit insane.
Whatever you should have sold it for cash for clunkers when you had a chance.
Obviously a "Feel the Bern
Obviously you have no idea what the fuck you are tailing about....Live in Trump country.....no bernies around here....fucking asshole...
"Live in Trump country"
That's called AMERICA
and putting political hate speech on your car is certain to incite others.
Shame on you.
That's called AMERICA
Call it whatever you want fuck nutz.....I call it trump country.....which is being ruined by the liar in chief and his stupidity...Hate speech....I call it free speech, no different than wearing a MAWA hat!!!!.....seems you really need help....LOLOLOL As to incite others.....that was the point Mon Petit Scotty was making about liberals....thanx for proving R's like you can be just as stupid....Congrats!!!!
It's so easy to troll lo iq commie and "Unknown".
They must be the two stupidest peas in the pod. Amazing they would both be here.
ROFLMFAO !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
Laughing is all you ever got, troll bait....too funny that you feel you are superior to anything let alone me....Maybe if you had a brain, you'd figure out the monikers....but that would take cogent thoughts something you are lacking...LOLOLOL Keep posting it is amusing....
Obama just took credit for December and January Job increases.
Guess lo iq "Unknown" is used to people laughing at him.
Guess I should feel sorry for him but he has such a self-inflated view of himself.
So I guess it's OK.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Great economic news for the US.
Opie uses 5 different monikers.
CNN is pre-fact checking Trumps State of the Union Speech .
Blogger KD said...
Opie uses 5 different monikers.
Sure you lying worthless goat fucking douche nozzle....you who knows everything and can't find a job or his ass in this great trump, economy and does nothing all day but make shit up for others....GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!!
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