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[United Airlines Threatened To Remove Passenger Over “Bombing Kids Is Not Self Defense” Shirt]
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Even if it is offensive to you, having such a broad non-specific policy about denying service for "offensive" clothing is ridiculous.
Say I, a lefty, am a flight attendent. Can I deny entry to anyone wearing a MAGA hat, an anti-trans ("try to milk a bull") t-shirt, a vaguely threatening pro-gun ("come and take it") shirt, a fur jacket, etc? I genuinely find such things offensive. So I can kick those people out? No? Tell me what is different about that. What about someone wearing a shirt that says "Aborting kids is not healthcare"? I can't think of a more direct and likely parallel than that. Is that too offensive to board a plane? Explain to me why not. Explain it slowly and think about your words as you do.
His shirt didn't even specify an event, any parties to the event, or any sort of threat. It is not explicitly about any specific person or party. It is about children in general and those who would bomb them and call that warfare. It was just stating a moral stance, and a pretty low bar one at that, one that most people would agree on without any other context projected on it. Her offense was almost certainly due to a projection of meaning that she put upon it, not even the shirt itself. A meaning that she assumed was true for no reason but her own and that she found offensive due to her personal politics around the parties or events she connected it to. How can you enforce a policy broad enough to allow someone to project a specific interpretation on a non-specific phrase and consider that projected meaning offensive, thereby barring them from the plane.
If I wear a shirt that says "he did nothing wrong" with no further context, do you get to decide who "he" is and bar me from you plane because maybe I mean someone who you think did do something wrong and you are offended by the alternative view? What if I actually mean a fictional character like Thanos? What if I mean someone whom you happen agree did nothing wrong? What if it is just a shirt I got from a thrift store and it has no known meaning to me at all? You see why that is stupid as fuck?
Israel is immune to criticism. It's a very clear and simple rule, I don't know why us lefty scum have such a problem with it.
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At work the other day, had someone very upset about someone in a fur suit that was a customer. Like they seemed to expect that I would kick them out because of the costume…
Back in the 90s... friends and I went to a restaurant with a salad bar that no longer exists, in full goth wear. Another customer there loudly complained to staff that we should be kicked out because of what we were wearing (no nudity. no graphics or words, just lots of black, eyeliner and big boots) the whole time. He arrived shortly after us and, while we could hear him repeatedly saying things, he never directly spoke to us. Weirdo.
Staff was very polite to us, and we to them, other dude was the only one freaking out.
I'm always super impressed at the amount of work that goes into goth outfits. More generally there are not many "tribe" appearances that don't require effort or sacrifice of some sort.
A fur suit. Like ... OwO?
I'm sure you work somewhere where the public is allowed. Maybe a convention center or something? But I was picturing cubicles, fluorescent lighting, rolling chairs, computers, and a man in a full panther costume who goes by Space Paws
That's just IT, they're chill. Don't know how they do half the tech wizardry they do, let alone in those bigass paws.
Space Paws TPS reports are spotless. One might say they are purfect.
Legit, that's my plan if i ever get forced to return to office for work.
Straight up fur suit every day. That's not even my thing. No idea where i'd get one or what they cost. I just figure, if they want to fuck with my day, they're going to get it right back with interest.