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(National Review)   College cafe that refused service to a guy wearing a pro-Israel T-shirt agrees not to discriminate any more, but says cashiers can still refuse individuals if they feel like it. All hail tolerance   (article.nationalreview.com) divider line
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Eat More Possum [TotalFark]
2007-08-14 2:44:36 PM  
submitter: All hail tolerance

To hell with tolerance in the marketplace. If a business wants to cater to one eyed, left handed, suicide bombers, that should be their prerogative. They will soon find their doors closed from lack of business.
 
Eochada
2007-08-14 2:48:00 PM  
Cue the usual arguments on both sides.
 
sailorman_glh
2007-08-14 2:51:20 PM  
You have no right to be tolerated anywhere. If you do or say something stupid or ignorant, you have no "toleration rights." You *DO* have a right not to be discriminated against based on the rule of law, and the Constitution, of the United States.

Screw tolerance...and for that matter, subby, screw you too.

/DNRTFA
 
Broken9754
2007-08-14 2:55:44 PM  
This thread will be full of reasoned and well thought out opinions.
 
Mordant
2007-08-14 2:59:46 PM  
If it was a pro-Israel T-shirt then not only should he have gotten service, but all of the American customers in the place should have been charged for his meal.
 
Eochada
2007-08-14 3:01:41 PM  
Mordant

...but all of the American customers in the place should have been charged for his meal.

This. It's the American Way.
 
OlafTheBent
2007-08-14 3:07:34 PM  
Mordant: If it was a pro-Israel T-shirt then not only should he have gotten service, but all of the American customers in the place should have been charged for his meal.

I'm looking at a wet keyboard over here.
 
Blues_X
2007-08-14 3:49:15 PM  
Mordant: If it was a pro-Israel T-shirt then not only should he have gotten service, but all of the American customers in the place should have been charged for his meal.

Zing!
 
Tabatha Static
2007-08-14 3:50:19 PM  
Mordant: If it was a pro-Israel T-shirt then not only should he have gotten service, but all of the American customers in the place should have been charged for his meal and the servers charged with anti-Semitic hate crimes .
 
Dancin_In_Anson
2007-08-14 3:52:02 PM  
So it would be ok to shiat in the foot baths at UM-Dearborn?
 
sailorman_glh
2007-08-14 3:57:28 PM  
Dancin_In_Anson: So it would be ok to shiat in the foot baths at UM-Dearborn?

o.0

I thought those bidets were a little close to the floor. I couldn't figure out why I was being forced to squat to clean my ass. My bad.
 
QU!RK1019
2007-08-14 4:00:07 PM  
At least she didn't try to board a plane with that shirt on.
 
tboucher
2007-08-14 4:04:30 PM  
What the hell was the zionist expecting, buying food at an organic store is a guaranteed hippy nutjob response.
 
Mordant
2007-08-14 4:08:05 PM  
Dancin_In_Anson: So it would be ok to shiat in the foot baths at UM-Dearborn?

If your tax dollars would be used to clean them out afterwards would you even care ?
 
DaCricket [TotalFark]
2007-08-14 4:09:36 PM  
Broken9754: This thread will be full of reasoned and well thought out opinions.

Riiiight.
 
Snarfangel
2007-08-14 4:23:33 PM  
I refuse to reply to anyone in this thread with offensive views. I will, however, arrange for another poster to reply.
 
thenapalm
2007-08-14 4:36:11 PM  
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dillenger69
2007-08-14 4:44:30 PM  
College has never been about tolerance.
It's been about being an individual, just like everybody else.
 
Weaver95
2007-08-14 4:44:59 PM  
The president of the university's Pro-Israel Terrapin Alliance opined, "The arrangement we worked out, while not ideal, is a reasonable accommodation. I would not want to force anyone to act against their own political beliefs."


Cashiers can make political statements?
 
stiletto_the_wise
2007-08-14 4:48:37 PM  
Is this anything like Christian pharmacists refusing to sell condoms or fill birth control prescriptions?
 
dogdaze
2007-08-14 4:49:53 PM  
College students can be self-rightious idiots. I know b/c I see them all the time in my office. One of the lessons I offer them is that the world does not revolve around them. Some get it, but most don't.
 
HotWingConspiracy
2007-08-14 4:50:17 PM  
Dancin_In_Anson: So it would be ok to shiat in the foot baths at UM-Dearborn?

That doesn't make any sense.
 
Murphyr
2007-08-14 4:50:55 PM  
stiletto_the_wise: Is this anything like Christian pharmacists refusing to sell condoms or fill birth control prescriptions?

Are college cafes licensed by the state?
 
rppp01a
2007-08-14 4:51:07 PM  
stiletto_the_wise: Is this anything like Christian pharmacists refusing to sell condoms or fill birth control prescriptions?

No. That's all about saving your christian soul. This is about something or other else that might could have some sort of something or not.
 
Kuta
2007-08-14 4:51:29 PM  
The University should have slapped down the co-op and hard. They should have threatened to pull any funding from them associated with their affiliation until they complied with university policy.

I like how NRO claims this whole situation is the liberals fault. It's just a stupid administrator making a bad decision, nothing to do with liberal or not. Remember the Civil Rights Movement? If you work in the public, you have to behave that way.

Anyway, while this is an isolated incident, I'm sure the pro-life pharmacist crowd is cheering on the cashier. Oy vey.
 
ReaverZ
2007-08-14 4:52:02 PM  
The person now works there and "Did the experience shake Lazarus’s simple faith in the power of tolerance? Turns out she’s a big fan of the coop’s solution."
 
William 'Fat Tony' Williams
2007-08-14 4:53:40 PM  
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Weaver95
2007-08-14 4:53:58 PM  
dillenger69: College has never been about tolerance.
It's been about being an individual, just like everybody else.

Once we all look the same, act the same and believe the exact same things about life, the universe and everything - equality and harmony will be achieved. Only the collective is free.
 
Al Zeimer
2007-08-14 4:58:57 PM  
FTA The university's student union director, Gretchen Metzelaars, was, however, unable to convince members of the coop that they had discriminated.

Whole lot of stupid goin' on at the University of Maryland.
 
Afternoon_Delight
2007-08-14 5:03:17 PM  
It's... teh 'tolerance'.

It's... teh 'diversity'.

It's... teh 'inclusion'.

It's... teh 'open mindedness'.

It's... teh 'free exchange of ideas'.


Just so long as you agree with... teh liberal.
Otherwise...

THERE'S NO HATE LIKE LIBERAL HATE.
 
CHAZZZ
2007-08-14 5:04:04 PM  
HotWingConspiracy: Dancin_In_Anson: So it would be ok to shiat in the foot baths at UM-Dearborn?

That doesn't make any sense.


He hates brown people. There are a lot of Muslims in Dearborn.
 
Jon Snow
2007-08-14 5:06:11 PM  
I'm wondering how the Republicans are going to recognize this Free Marketeers vs. Fellating Israel dilemma.

I wonder if I complained because I had a shirt that said "I stand for Iran" and didn't get served how sympathetic the bastion of conservative integrity that is NRO would be to my story.
 
EchoDork
2007-08-14 5:06:42 PM  
Yes... but will the cashiers have to sell morning after pills?
 
Wooly Bully
2007-08-14 5:08:41 PM  
Lefty turds (that student union) and righty turds (NRO). It's like a Rorschach inkblot of stupid.
 
Pro Zack
2007-08-14 5:13:55 PM  
Al Zeimer: unable to convince members of the coop that they had discriminated.

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She should have tried harder then. Everyone knows it's all white meat on the inside. except for the dark meat.
 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf
2007-08-14 5:13:58 PM  
Caveat Emptor
 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf
2007-08-14 5:15:35 PM  
"We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To Anyone"
 
Pro Zack
2007-08-14 5:17:50 PM  
Hideously Gigantic Smurf: "We Reserve Refuse The Right To Refuse Render Service To Anyone"


//my kind of place!
 
Dancin_In_Anson
2007-08-14 5:19:46 PM  
CHAZZZ: He hates brown people. There are a lot of Muslims in Dearborn

Since when has being brown been a prerequisite for being muslim? Sounds like you're engaging in profiling.
 
ritalinchild 54
2007-08-14 5:21:29 PM  
Seriously.
As a retired "hippy" from the 70's.

HUH??!!
 
Jon Snow
2007-08-14 5:21:45 PM  
Dancin_In_Anson: Since when has being brown been a prerequisite for being muslim? Sounds like you're engaging in profiling.

That witty riposte sure makes up for your comments about pissing on Muslims and shiatting in their footbaths. Way to show 'em!
 
BiffDangler
2007-08-14 5:21:58 PM  
This doesn't bother me at all, serve whoever you want. But, if it was the other way around, most of you would be in an uproar, like you are with the pharmacists who don't want to deal with abortion drugs.
 
Ignorant McNugget
2007-08-14 5:24:13 PM  
"no one should have to have contact with people whose views they find hurtful."

So this means I never have to have contact with Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, socialists, monarchists, or homophobes ever again? Cool beans.
 
DarthBrooks
2007-08-14 5:25:09 PM  
[image from headhealing.com too old to be available]

Shh! It *can't* be intolerance - - it's the People's Republic of Maryland!
 
Hoopy Frood
2007-08-14 5:29:40 PM  
"no one should have to have contact with people whose views they find hurtful."

And that includes people who might be tempted to hire these idiots after they graduate.
 
onomatopoetic
2007-08-14 5:32:35 PM  
Jon Snow: I wonder if I complained because I had a shirt that said "I stand for Iran" and didn't get served how sympathetic the bastion of conservative integrity that is NRO would be to my story.

I doubt they'd be sympathetic at all but I wouldn't call the NRO a bastion of any type of integrity much less "conservative".

But I don't see this as a "Free Marketeer" issue, either. The two groups were somehow able to reach an amicable agreement without any government interference. Mysterious!
 
stpickrell
2007-08-14 5:33:24 PM  
The cashier here is similar to the passengers that freaked out over the guy who was wearing a t-shirt with an Arabic phrasing.
 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf
2007-08-14 5:34:57 PM  
BiffDangler: This doesn't bother me at all, serve whoever you want. But, if it was the other way around, most of you would be in an uproar, like you are with the pharmacists who don't want to deal with abortion drugs.

And NRO would be suspiciously silent.

Though you do raise a good point.

However, I'm pretty certain the cafe wasn't state-sponsored, like most pharmacists are.
 
Arnold T Pants
2007-08-14 5:35:26 PM  
If it was an anti-Israel shirt the liberals would be freaking out, but seeing it's pro-Israel they think discrimination is OK.

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RockIsDead
2007-08-14 5:36:16 PM  
Mordant: If it was a pro-Israel T-shirt then not only should he have gotten service, but all of the American customers in the place should have been charged for his meal.

Indeed. And anyone wearing a pro-Palestinian T-shirt should have their food paid for by the EU but the food sent to Sula Arafat's apartmnent in Paris.
 
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