People get that denying Sarah Huckabee Sanders service at a restaurant for personal convictions is exactly the same as refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay wedding right?
I appreciate everyone is angry and righteous, but we are all failing here.
Both are personal decisions based on deep personal convictions – when we start to deny service to one another based on those convictions civil society starts to unravel.
Consumer boycotts are aimed at establishments or regimes, not individuals and taking it to an individual level is dangerous.
You can’t champion denying Sanders service and then decry a conservative cake maker doing the exact same thing by refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
Our rage is making us hypocrites.
Some will say you can’t compare homophobia to righteous protest, but one’s righteous protest can easily become anothers bigotry can’t it?
Sanders is a repugnant human being who lies for a living – being born gay is part of the beautiful spectrum of humanity –  but where we are standing at now in America is a flashpoint – averting the spiral downwards requires more than ‘I’m right & you’re wrong’.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gets the dangerous escalation this could cause, “I strongly disagree with those who advocate harassing folks if they don’t agree with you, if you disagree with a politician, organize your fellow citizens to action and vote them out of office. But no one should call for the harassment of political opponents. That’s not right. That’s not American.”
Calling for the harassment of political opponents in public is going to backlash on the Left – we need civility far more than the Right does.
UPDATE: Maybe it’s too late…
Couldn’t agree more. Denying service – hmm – borderline. Boasting of it and we’re entering breakdown of society territory, where lack of civility portends nothing positive, and achieves nothing, except maybe a whetting up of unhelpful emotions.
Comrade – we (the Left) need civility far more than the Right does.
Hey well. Agian, no one mentioned Anthony Bordain. Hope not. When chefs like Martha Stewart become more famous than the kardashians, y’know you’ve only got 5 lives left.
If i went into certain bars or restaurants wearing the jandals jeans and a beanie, i’d get refused entry, presumably because my image didn’t reflect the ‘image’ or standards of the establishment.
Maybe this is the same thing.
Then again, we own a business with a socialist vibe, and have had a few discussions about certain locals we would refuse service to for political reasons, but then when push comes to shove, as long as they behave in a reasonable fashion we have never kicked them out. And, in fact, have engaged in some enlightening conversations with the most unlikely of people.
Talking, and extending the hand of reason, is always the first step. You will never open anyone else’s mind if you slam the door in their face. And unless the Left plans on going full Pol Pot on them, we really do need to keep talking to the centrists and even the nutters.
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