Smart move. That reminds me of the old parable by Twitter user @iamragesparkle:
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”
And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.”
And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.
When I lived in a purple city, a bunch of bars did the same. Literally chose to close or have a “right to serve” sign prominently on their door front during Pro-Trump events.
Thankfully, it’s not written law that republicans are a protected class that cannot be discriminated against…yet. I would expect that to change if Trump wins or steals the election.
Florida testing the waters with that ridiculous bill allowing state funds to be diverted to “presidential candidates facing political persecution” or however they phrased it.
“I don’t fucking care who comes into my bar on the norm, but it’s such a heightened event where people are very proudly going to be confirming that Donald Trump’s the nominee for the party again … for Wisconsin politics, it’s like one of those, ‘Girl, you need to worry about yourself’ moments,” he says. “During election time we’ll have to make sure that our parties go and vote, but we’ve had enough happen because of the political divide and I don’t really care about the [Republican] National Party coming here to confirm him as the nominee. That’s not our biggest problem.”
Owner sounds like a badass, and long run will get him more business I stead of a weekend of hassle, headaches, and likely no tips.
Especially if other bars cater to them like the article says is normal.
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