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Vancouver restaurant manager fired for refusing service to customer wearing ‘MAGA’ hat
globalnews.ca ^ | 6/29/2018 | Simon Little and Niki Reitmayer

Posted on 06/30/2018 7:15:10 AM PDT by rktman

Fired manager Darin Hodge said the issue erupted when he asked a customer to take off their MAGA hat. In an emailed statement, he said he would do it again.

“I stand by my decision to ask the patron to remove his hat. The MAGA hat has come to symbolize racism, bigotry, islamaphobia [sic], misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia. As a person with a strong moral backbone, I had to take a stand against this guest’s choice of headwear while in my former place of work,” he wrote.

Eva Gates, Vice president of Human Resources for the Sequoia Group of Restaurants — which owns the Teahouse — agreed with how the incident began, but said it amounted to a refusal of service.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: canada; hat; maga; magahat; manager; ohcanaduh; restaurant; vancouver
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Even dumber is that Trump hisself has not a whiff of homophobia
about him, it’s a projection over Pence


61 posted on 06/30/2018 8:11:27 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Tennessee Nana
Hmm. Nah, apparently that's okee dookee. Besides, moose limbs love "the gays" don't they? 👹
62 posted on 06/30/2018 8:12:55 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I don’t own a MAGA hat but I will gladly purchase one for the march.


63 posted on 06/30/2018 8:13:02 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The article says B.C.


64 posted on 06/30/2018 8:26:23 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: rktman

There ya ho. ;>)


65 posted on 06/30/2018 8:30:06 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: rktman

“Fired manager Darin Hodge said the issue erupted when he asked a customer to take off their MAGA hat. In an emailed statement, he said he would do it again.”

His next action should have been to ask the customer to stop punching him in the face.


66 posted on 06/30/2018 8:33:28 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: rktman

He has a FB page. Kinda burly for a teabouse manager.


67 posted on 06/30/2018 8:34:16 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: moovova

Agreed. And the damn bill ought to point forward, no matter where you are wearing it.


68 posted on 06/30/2018 8:34:27 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: gundog
Minister of Headwear.

Or the lack there of. 😁

69 posted on 06/30/2018 8:37:17 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Ann Archy
Here's one for you, Ms. Ann.

Take Your Hat Off.

70 posted on 06/30/2018 8:39:30 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Old Yeller

Darin doesn’t spit; he swallows. The folks in the kitchen may be different, however.


71 posted on 06/30/2018 8:41:02 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Liz

They really believe this. Those that listen to the lying media and actually believe the “Trump Russia collusion” (still!!) don’t realize they’ve been brainwashed and have become the very bigots they say they despise. They don’t see the irony.


72 posted on 06/30/2018 8:41:02 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Hawthorn

You are disparaging the wrong crowd! Such people are far more aware of proper manners than you or your metrosexual dweebs!


73 posted on 06/30/2018 8:41:50 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The big question . . . I await confirmation as well.


74 posted on 06/30/2018 8:42:37 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: rktman

Take your hat off. They dont sell hot dogs here. They took the bleachers out two years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqp1bGuiHHs


75 posted on 06/30/2018 8:44:16 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: rktman

“The MAGA hat has come to symbolize racism, bigotry, islamaphobia [sic], misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia.”

Disagreeing with racial quotas, groups or scholarships designated for particular non-white races, or simply stating historical or statistical facts about race = racism.

Believing in the concepts of property rights, limited government, and border security = bigotry.

Being aware that most terrorism in the world is done by radical Islamisicists = islamaphobia.

Believing that men and women are designed differently and have different strengths and weaknesses that are complimentary to each other and make both (only 2) sexes important, valuable, and necessary = misogyny.

Not apologizing for being white or refusing to accept that “white privilege” exists and must be punished = white supremacy.

Not endorsing homosexual marriage, or not supporting homosexuals being caretakers of children as teachers, Scout leaders, adoptive and foster parents, or refusing to consider anal sex as an expression of “love” = homophobia...

(and will be met with death threats by those concerned about your politically-defined “mental illness” because threats of violence are the rational way to respond to people who disagree—in the mind of a liberal).

In other words, these labels are merely slurs made up to impugn the character of anyone with traditional values, and also represent a pathetic attempt by liberals to cope with the ongoing evidence of their failed philosophical views.


76 posted on 06/30/2018 8:44:47 AM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

That;s EXACTLY what I would LOVE to do to the Classless, Mannerless SLOBS that wear hates in restaurants!


77 posted on 06/30/2018 8:45:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: rktman

On most every forum I’m on beside FR; Canadians are the most rabid leftists. Truly disgusting people I would throw gas on if they were on fire.


78 posted on 06/30/2018 8:46:18 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: rktman
"As a person with a strong moral backbone who has recently become unemployed, I had to take a stand against this guest’s choice of headwear while in my former place of work,” he wrote."

Fixed it...

79 posted on 06/30/2018 8:46:54 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
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To: mulligan

Darin:

Life is tough...

It is even tougher when you are monumentally stupid.


80 posted on 06/30/2018 8:47:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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