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August 14, 2007
The Jew Hating Crunchy Granola Gang
University of Maryland student Mia Lazarus recently went to buy some chips and juice at the Maryland Food Collective. The clerk at this grocery and sandwich shop in the student union read her t-shirt’s “Baltimore Zionist District” and “I Stand for Israel” slogans and then declared, “Your shirt offends me. I won’t ring you up.”
Another coop cashier eventually sold Lazarus her chips and juice. But more instructive than Lazarus’s ability to finally buy her groceries has been the aftermath. After an hours-long, “teary” meeting between Lazarus, her friends, and the collective, the coop agreed that it would serve any customer who wasn’t physically or verbally abusive, but that workers offended by a customer’s politics could arrange for another clerk to serve a patron.
To read the entire article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Dr. Carol
A few observations:
1. Any serious threat to freedom of thought and freedom of speech comes from the left in America, not from the right.
2. Virulent Jew-hatred and anti-Zionism has found a comfortable home on our campuses, and it emanates from the left. It is always the left who shuts down speakers who represent pro-Israel, and pro-American speakers. Now the left has made common cause with radical Muslim student organizations. Speakers whose mission it is to support Israel and America and expose the jihadist threat are regularly threatened with physical violence, viciously intimidated.
3. Jew-hatred, under the guise of anti-Zionism, has found eager, and honey-tongued spokesmen among Professors in the groves of academia. They call themselves deconstructionists. Do not be fooled. This is just another label for Marxist/Lenninist. Another label for Jew-hater.
4. Gutless university administrators do nothing to stand up to leftists tyrants and Muslim demagogues. Many are former 60's radicals and have fond memories of the good ol' days. The fact that they are Jews and acting as kapos seems to make little impression. I have Christian friends who have a deeper connection to Judaism.
5. The problem is getting worse as Universities appease these leftist and Muslim thugs. Appeasement invites aggression. Soon, entire universities will become, like the 22 backward Arab/Muslim countries, Judenrein.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at August 14, 2007 09:50 AM
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She should have walked out with the stuff and not paid.
Posted by: Jeremiah at August 14, 2007 01:28 PM
Compromises like that are not equal nor favorable. We all are forced to work with/do things that we find distasteful. Part of being a grown up is dealing with it.
Posted by: Jack at August 14, 2007 03:12 PM
the coop agreed that it would serve any customer who wasn’t physically or verbally abusive, but that workers offended by a customer’s politics could arrange for another clerk to serve a patron.
What kind of compromise is that?
"serve any customer" is simply the law; letting an "offended" clerk have another employee do is work for him is just a license for discrimination.
The clerk who refused service needs firing. Now.
Posted by: michael at August 14, 2007 11:08 PM
Michael:
I have a better idea. Let's send the clerk and all his granola-eating, Jew-hating buddies to Gaza and let them sing kumbaya with the, ahem, peace-loving Hamas boys. That clash of cultures should be absolutely hysterical.
Look, the left in America have devolved into a PC form of the KKK. But their hatred is directed at Jews and Israel so it's totally cool.
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at August 15, 2007 12:44 AM
Let's send the clerk and all his granola-eating, Jew-hating buddies to Gaza and let them sing kumbaya with the, ahem, peace-loving Hamas boys.
Definitely more creative than just firing the guy.
But how long before the Hamas folks simply shoot them?
Posted by: michael at August 15, 2007 01:43 AM
Michael:
Ten minutes — maybe five. They won't shoot them; they will decapitate them, then post it on You Tube accompanied by Kumbaya.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 15, 2007 04:46 PM
They won't shoot them; they will decapitate them, then post it on You Tube accompanied by Kumbaya.
And people will still make excuses for the terrorists.
Posted by: Jack at August 15, 2007 10:57 PM
In DC, way back in the 80s when I was right out of high school, I had a friend who was a bike messenger. This bike messenger had been given a t-shirt by one of our oh-so-punk aquaintances that said "Meese is a Pig" in gigantic 80's graphic print on the front. (These posters were plastered all over DC for a while too.) So he went to the Justice Department to deliver a package and the guards wouldn't let him in because 'It would offend my boss.' So he argued like any good teenager, failed, and then went on his merry way worried he'd get in trouble for failing to deliver the package. It just so happens that later in the week he delivered a package to the ACLU, where he recounted his tale, thus making many lawyers very happy. They promptly jumped all over it.
http://www.messmedia.org/messville/DC_TEE1.HTM
If I recall correctly, he was eventually allowed to wear the t-shirt in the building.
My point being (finally) that the uber-liberal co-op clerk was being sooooooo old school Republican. I mean, does this clerk know how much he/she has in common with Reaganites? And when did liberals turn into conservatives?
I'm feeling really old right now.
Posted by: Alice at August 18, 2007 06:09 AM
Alice:
I believe you're being generous. Actually, liberals have actually turned into right wing tyrants.
You're not old, merely wise.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 19, 2007 01:00 AM