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Saturday, July 13th, 2019 11:10 pm
I have a friend, let’s call her Karen. Karen bootstrapped several Portland businesses, including a coffee shop. She walks in one day and the barista, who is trans, says she had a man come in earlier wearing a MAGA cap and is she obliged to serve people like him? Karen asks, did he say something to you? No, says the barista, but he’s a white supremacist. Karen tells her, first, you don’t know that, and second, you cannot discriminate based on the way someone is dressed. And that, Karen thinks, is that, but no, the barista relays the story to another barista we will call Jen, who goes onto Facebook and posts, “My boss Karen is a Nazi.” Karen learns of this while she is on vacation. She calls her manager and tells her to get Jen into the office. Jen may intuit as much, as when the manager says she needs to speak with her, Jen gets on the floor behind the espresso bar and curls into a fetal position. And you might think, if anyone should maybe not be in customer service, it’s Jen, but no, people prove sympathetic to her and the other barista’s fears and start an online inquisition and can Karen prove she is not a Nazi? And should she not be more concerned with the safety of her employees than some random Republican wanting a cup of coffee?

Так вся статья неплохая. Грустно, Портланд мог быть приятным городом, но хунвейбины, похоже, этого не допустят.
Sunday, July 14th, 2019 03:24 pm (UTC)
Портланд столица идиотизма, конечно.
Но здесь все хуже. Одним идиотизмом не объяснишь ненависть к окружающим. Это скорее что-то вроде фашизма (хоть они и кличут себя "анти").
Monday, July 15th, 2019 01:50 pm (UTC)
> keep Portland weird

Опа.. Остину – приготовиться..