June 05, 2006
I went into the local B&N to do some reading this weekend. When I walked in the greater said hello to the people in front and asked them to join the B&N club.My advice? I'd stop bathing for a week or two, grow a goater, put on my Docs, and throw on that Che tee that's been languishing at the bottom of the closet since I was a freshman in college.When it was my turn to be greeted the nice lady looked me over and suddenly became busy fixing the books behind her. Didn't really think much of it because I hate greeters as much as the perfume spraying terrorists in mall stores. Next couple behind me got the greeters perky treatment, which made me look back to see if her books were all in odder or what.
Then it dawned on me, I got profiled. I was wearing my Army T-shirt, and a hat that said Hard Rock Cafe Saigon. The profile I matched, conservative former military Republican.
Now my question to you is should I go back in the same gear or go back dressed as a whiny liberal? This kind of burns my ass, I did all told between Marines and Army National Guard 14 years service, and this is the way some one showing any signs of supporting the military gets treated?
But that just might be my subconcience need for the undying approval of my intellectual & moral superiors on the Left.
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Posted by: Cmunk at June 05, 2006 08:39 AM (7teJ9)
I also object to having B&N in the title, as even if true it obviously isn't a company policy.
Posted by: MiB at June 05, 2006 08:46 AM (6jwxg)
Posted by: Cmunk at June 05, 2006 08:58 AM (7teJ9)
Posted by: john ryan at June 05, 2006 09:00 AM (TcoRJ)
I'm impressed. You can still wear that.
Posted by: RLS at June 05, 2006 09:02 AM (Lh7Vt)
Posted by: SPO at June 05, 2006 09:02 AM (OZn2O)
The real problem is how does one complain, even to the company, about such an issue without being considered whiney or paranoid? The writer simply decided to showcase an obvious prejudice to others. Now if he walked in wearing filthy clothing and smelling of urine and had a hair mat the size of a football on the back of his head, I could understand the woman's aversion. Otherwise - nope.
Posted by: Oyster at June 05, 2006 09:29 AM (ULAbo)
Dude that was too funny. Great effin post!!!! I read it to all my colleagues and they ROFLed. I get the same thing man.
Dude, you got friends in DC, and I got your back anytime. Here is something cool to do, when your in that situation, I often find myself there at parties, libraries, malls, coffee shops and bookstores.
Its a way of picking a fight' but everyone knows whinyass libs are puny she-men.
For example: go to a coffee shop and start talking about how in the next year our DoD interrogation policy, via Directives or people like Pelosi and Mccain, is going to succumb to asking terrorists if they would like Cheesecake or Cherry Pie, and if they tell us where the baddies are, they get both!!!!
Something I do, then I go on and say we need dogs permanetly attached to every US interrogator. See, extremists are used to she-men puny lib dogs in their country (rat-dogs) you get a black dog, they think its the devil, hell try using Pigs, they can be trained to bark and bite shit too.
Madcap!!
Posted by: Capster at June 05, 2006 09:45 AM (JF5DO)
Oyster: You've seen complaints about the juxtapositioning of names and occurances in order to imply things, in FH911 and elsewhere. This is the same thing. I know Rusty is a good guy and he didn't nefariously plot this, but its still a bad juxtapositioning.
Posted by: MiB at June 05, 2006 01:37 PM (RwDCC)
Slow news day, ala CNN or what?
Posted by: davec at June 05, 2006 05:35 PM (CcXvt)
Here is a little test for you the next time you go in there. Go and look for books by Al Franken or Michael Moore, then go look for books by Hugh Hewitt and Sean Hannity. I bet you find it very easy to find the Franken and Moore books but you have to go on the equivalent of an Easter Egg hunt to find books by Hewitt or Hannity.
Posted by: Nahanni at June 05, 2006 08:11 PM (Zw1aW)
For me. A cup of hot coffee accidently spilled all over the bitch works better. All it takes is a big sneeze.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 06, 2006 04:54 AM (PV2nq)
Posted by: MiB at June 06, 2006 05:16 AM (RwDCC)
What is it you are implying when you make the reference of trying to find Satanic Verses in a Christian book store, in reference to finding conservative books in B&N?
What in the headline was purposely misleading? What was arrainged and placed out of context to achieve the so called juxtapositioning? Greeter: employee of B&N, Customer: former military + military supporter. Nothing was implied other then the employee profiled a customer. Pure facts, noting else. This is the kind of stuff Oprah gets stores shut down for if it involves race, sex, or sexual prefernce issues. So what should the headline have said "book store employee shuns military"? Well then we should take the reference to the military out also if we are taking B&N out. So it would be "bookstore employee shuns customer"? But then shouldn't we get rid of the reference that the employee worked for a bookstore, etc etc etc. Hard facts are the B&N greeter decided on who she was going to greet, and who she wasn't. I didn't realize she had that much leeway into who she was to greet and who she could ignore. It makes a person think that maybe they shouldn't be in that store. It could also bring unwanted attention to it, which is very easily done in little Rhodie.
Posted by: SPO at June 06, 2006 05:48 AM (OZn2O)
Posted by: Cmunk at June 06, 2006 07:35 AM (7teJ9)
MIB,
I've come to expect dumb comments on blogs, but that one takes the cake, lol!
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 06, 2006 08:20 AM (8e/V4)
In Illiberal Education, Dinesh D'Souza has a marvelous anecdote about how the common black complaint about whites thinking they all look alike is entirely dubious, since it is not racism but human nature. I'd make the same initial assumption about Sean's claim. Why did he immediately assume prejudice, and why did so many of you accept it immediately?
Posted by: jd at June 06, 2006 12:57 PM (aqTJB)
Posted by: RepJ at June 06, 2006 05:11 PM (y6n8O)
My theory is that because of past racism, blacks have been conditioned to look for racism. But racism has become a taboo, so the instances of real racism are now few and far between. But black folks still have that lingering paranoia, so they find racism where there is none. Their paranoia is understanble, but I still think it's mostly paranoia.
The military have also been sensitized. They notice Liberal loathing. The difference is that Lib loathing for the military has not become taboo to Libs. Lib attitudes towards the military are largely unchanged. So when a military man notices different treatment, he isn't being paranoid, he's being aware.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 07, 2006 12:39 AM (8e/V4)
Posted by: SPO at June 07, 2006 06:54 AM (OZn2O)
As for liberals being intolerant--sure, it happens. Perhaps the party out of power (particularly when it is completely powerless, as now) goes a little apeshit. Certainly, that happened to some conservatives and Republicans in 1993. War also tends to bring out more intolerance on all sides. Conservatives can be very intolerant. Perhaps it says more about the person than it does about the ideology, if members of both ideologies can be prejudiced, judgmental, and overall assholes.
Posted by: jd at June 08, 2006 01:11 PM (aqTJB)
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