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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: moovova

Great writing on that Show. The way he just stood there without saying anything else was classic.

RIP James Gandolfini.

If you ever saw Get Shorty, Gandolfini played the Bodyguard that Travolta pushed down the Stairs.


101 posted on 06/30/2018 11:22:41 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: sargon

“It’s a free country.”

Yes, it is. But, freedom to do something doesn’t mean it’s the thing to do. After all, half the voting public voted for Hillary. :-)


102 posted on 06/30/2018 12:08:03 PM PDT by moovova
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To: sargon
In any event, a hat worn inside essentially becomes an ornament on one's attire, and causes no significant problems that I'm aware of, so flouting such a social norm seems harmless at worst. After all, some people wear sunglasses indoors for no good reason...

Except for special occasions, usually solemn, I don't take my hat off indoors unless I'm home. It may have been a custom at one time but those days are long over with. I do see some of the older guys taking off their hats indoors but far more don't.

103 posted on 06/30/2018 12:35:04 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: rktman
No, this couldn't be true! The Left is tolerant and inclusive!

"As a person with a strong moral backbone, I had to take a stand against this guest’s choice of headwear....."

I've noticed more invocations of "morality" from self-identified progressives recently.

104 posted on 06/30/2018 1:00:24 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: Yaelle

I am NOT talking about WOMEN!! I said MEN! And even a Jewish man should have the manners to take off their BASEBALL HAT IN A RESTAURANT! geesh….where are these people coming from?


105 posted on 06/30/2018 1:40:15 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: rktman

President Trump will continue to make snowflakes melt.

Film at eleven.

5.56mm


106 posted on 06/30/2018 1:43:00 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

Even snowflakes who live in Cana-duh.


107 posted on 06/30/2018 1:43:57 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Ann Archy
should have the manners to take off their BASEBALL HAT IN A RESTAURANT

The lack of common courtesy such as removing caps/hats indoors, not just dining is surprising. As a boomer I was raised to never wear headgear inside and I see guy my age and older with ballcaps, cowboy hats on and can only shake my head. I only said something one time. A guy my age at a restaurant table next to mine wearing a Vietnam Vet cap with button all over it eating. He came into the restroom while I was in there and I casually stated 'you must have had lenient NCO's in your outfit, in the 101st my Sarge would be taking me for midnite marches if I wore a cover indoors.

108 posted on 06/30/2018 1:50:18 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: redcatcherb412

Seems like NO PARENTS teach MANNERS today, or probably for the last 40 years!


109 posted on 06/30/2018 1:54:07 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Agreed......that always bothered me about people wearing Che Gevara T-shirts when they had no idea what he was about. The real Che would just as soon slit their throats & run their arm through it.


110 posted on 06/30/2018 5:22:04 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: Dilbert San Diego

At the university I used to work, the graduate students who ran the on-campus bar put Che’ on a t-shirt. Well, I was a volunteer bartender, and while given a shirt for free, I returned it and informed them I couldn’t wear a shirt for a guy who would outright try to kill every last one of them if he could. It didn’t faze them at all.

Oh well.


111 posted on 06/30/2018 7:19:26 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: Liz
All of that on one little hat?

LOL - only because liberals are nuts...

112 posted on 07/01/2018 7:20:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Sarah Sanders - kicked out of a restaurant for the crime of 'eating while conservative'...)
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To: Ann Archy

Maybe their commandment from Gd is slightly higher than ancient etiquette.


113 posted on 07/01/2018 11:58:35 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: moovova

While a vast majority of men who wear hats indoors are just boorish yahoos, there are any number of reasons to wear a hat indoors which are perfectly valid. Two that quickly come to mind are:

1) Religious reasons. Orthodox Jews (like my late f-i-l) always cover their heads indoors and out. In his case, he chose a regular baseball cap to a yarmulke.

2) Medical reasons. Perhaps the man has a rather ugly looking scar on his head from surgery and wishes, for reasons of modesty and good taste, to hide it from the public.


114 posted on 07/01/2018 12:06:21 PM PDT by ssaftler (It's not the "deep state". It's the "odoriferous oligarchy")
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To: Yaelle

Wear the Yarmukle….NOT the baseball cap! And why should anyone be ashamed to show they are Jewish?


115 posted on 07/01/2018 2:00:16 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ssaftler

I understand. Thx.


116 posted on 07/01/2018 2:34:19 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Ann Archy

Not ashamed, just wanting to fit in. Maybe for safety as well. A Jewish man can wear any headcovering he wants. I don’t know what it hurts in a coffee shop or casual restaurant if a guy wears a baseball cap. I’m siding with the Orthodox Jew here.


117 posted on 07/01/2018 3:56:28 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

It’s a VERY nice restaurant....at least when we were ther years ago.....maybe it’s not just a diner.....still....men should NOT wear a baseball cap when eating! GAUCHE!


118 posted on 07/01/2018 4:30:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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