When Your Private Dinner Conversation
Becomes Your Waiter’s Facebook Post
Delaware Valley Journal,
by
Michael Graham
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/19/2020 4:56:43 AM
When you’re out having drinks with friends, are your personal conversations about politics private? Should they be?
According to at least one New England restaurant, the answer is no. And thus far, advocates for #BlackLivesMatter and other progressive political causes agree.
Since the beginning of the protests following George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, what critics call “cancel culture” has been operating overtime. The premise of “cancel culture” is that people should be denied access to media platforms or publicly shamed into apologizing for expressing opinions unpopular with progressive activists.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mushroom 6/19/2020 5:26:27 AM (No. 449422)
This is getting out of hand. a discrete bartender is a standard among gentlemen, apparently the youth of the day aren't taught what a position like that means, and more so the owner. he knew and still backed down because of threats from the left. This has got to stop NOW.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/19/2020 5:34:31 AM (No. 449424)
Or - you can reaffirm your position and stand by what you said instead of caving in to progressive twenty-somethings who haven't the slightest idea what life is all about. Hause should have stood by his statements because what he said was the truth as well as the majority opinion in the country. Whatever happened to the concept of "the customer is always right" meaning less than the immature views of an indiscrete moron?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
franq 6/19/2020 6:31:30 AM (No. 449450)
"...you duhty rattt..."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/19/2020 6:37:09 AM (No. 449452)
Hause can sue the little (insert word not allowed here) snitch who ruined his right to privacy and pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, get the news out about this cowardly restaurant owner’s capitulation to political intimidation and the unreliable twenty-something faux bartender. Soon, the restaurant can suffer the consequences like the one that kicked out Sarah Saunders.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/19/2020 6:43:28 AM (No. 449456)
These people only think this is the world they want to live in. The few useful idiots are better organized and for now normal people who don't even face bullets, are caught up in the moment and surrendering. The people who were in Nazi Germany during Hitler's rise also probably thought he had no chance using all these tactics. Many wound up in concentration camps, some even bartenders.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/19/2020 7:24:21 AM (No. 449500)
And now there is a movement to recall Hause from his select board member position. These snot nosed 20-30 somethings have no issue destroying peoples' lives. They need to be held accountable.
Why would anyone in the hospitality industry ever hire Erik Heilman again? This breaking of protocol and slander needs to follow Erik Heilman around for the rest of his life. Give him a taste of his own medicine.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/19/2020 7:38:47 AM (No. 449514)
If and when this happens, customers should go to management and tell them this is not acceptable AND the bartender or whomever should be fired!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
worried 6/19/2020 7:40:18 AM (No. 449516)
That's one bar I would never patronize. They don't respect your privacy? I would boycott them and post the reason on Facebook. As a warning to others who wouldn't want their private words broadcast to the world.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/19/2020 7:41:27 AM (No. 449517)
And make a note of that Boston restaurant and its owner----mever ever go there again!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 6/19/2020 7:53:22 AM (No. 449538)
It might be wise to remember that when you are out in public there should be no expectation of privacy. Only doctors, lawyers and priests (in the confessional) are bound to keep your affairs private. What the waiter did was despicable but there are no private conversations in a public place.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smcchk 6/19/2020 8:13:18 AM (No. 449569)
And the headlines keep screaming that Biden is leading in the polls. Sure he is because this time the silent majority is really silent! But we will be voting.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JackBurton 6/19/2020 8:13:58 AM (No. 449572)
Bartender should have stayed fired. Hause should probably sue.
Is this what is known as Cancel Culture? I would personally like to go to the restaurant, order a drink, not tip, and tell the bartender he is a liberal horse's ass.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 6/19/2020 8:38:02 AM (No. 449589)
This continues to happen because nobody ever does anything to the perpetrators.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/19/2020 8:38:31 AM (No. 449590)
Here's another one to ponder. I listened to my security system audio of my mail carrier chatting on the phone as she stepped up to my mail box I heard her say; "This is that MAGA house" mutter mutter... Now how the hell would she know or presume that? The American Rifleman (NRA) and Illinois State Rifle Association mail flag on display I suspect?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
smak90 6/19/2020 8:43:26 AM (No. 449594)
Some MAGA groups should gather about 50 people, hang out there all night and the leave a $0.00 tip with a note on the receipt saying your tip has been cancelled. Make sure to keep him running back and forth getting drinks the entire time.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bazi 6/19/2020 8:48:54 AM (No. 449598)
Communism. It's worth repeating. In 1991, we were in Hungary just as the communists and their tanks were leaving. The Hungarians did not feel comfortable speaking negatively about the communists in their country. After looking around, in a whisper, a woman told me that the "communists had raped her country". They took every thing of value and of beauty....leaving everything in disrepair. Communists are parasites who suck the life out of everything they touch. So here we are, in the United States-looking around and whispering out of fear of being "reported". Cancel culture is communism.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rabblerouser 6/19/2020 9:01:08 AM (No. 449614)
The only, I repeat, the only way this is going to stop is for everyone who doesn't agree with what social media is being used for to get off of all social media. Good, bad or indifferent. Strangle it to death. If you don't, you are part of the problem. No excuses.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 6/19/2020 9:28:00 AM (No. 449648)
#14 I would get a PO box if possible. You don't need that.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
GO3 6/19/2020 9:40:32 AM (No. 449666)
I've said this before; Fakebook is a gossip rag and a command and control mechanism for radicals and terrorists. I have never done Fakebook, and if someone posted negative info on me I would have no way of knowing it. It's like the gossip passed over the backyard fence of your neighbors without your knowledge, just more technologically sophisticated.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Jean123 6/19/2020 9:55:40 AM (No. 449687)
How ironic that his name is "Heil"man. That's a joke, right?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/19/2020 10:07:16 AM (No. 449706)
Snitches get stitches.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 6/19/2020 10:12:50 AM (No. 449717)
Really easy solution. Don't ever go to that damned restaurant.
And I will own anything I say in a dinner conversation. I'm a pretty simple person, what you see is what you get. I don't have two versions of me, if I actually said it, and I wonder how many lies were added, I'll own it.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 6/19/2020 10:30:00 AM (No. 449743)
I’m old enough that my teachers in high school all lived during WWII. My German teacher from Czechoslovakia told the story of how, following the invasion by Germany into his country, he and a friend were walking home from school and his friend made a disparaging remark about the Nazi’s. Someone overheard the friend, turned him in and during the night he was arrested. The next day the friend’s name was on a list of those people put on trains and sent to “camps.” It was an effective way to stifle any and all criticism. As a class in the 1960’s we were appalled to hear this story. Fast forward to now - how close are we getting to physical removal to re-education camps for “wrong-think”? Will signs appear outside of restaurants “No Conservatives served here”?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/19/2020 10:49:20 AM (No. 449772)
People go to these places with an expectation that their privacy will be respected. But then respect is something the Leftists spent three decades telling the youth of America is a bad thing. Like respect for Life, which all boils down to the Roe decision back in the 70's doesn't it? One of these days, restaurants and watering holes will learn that you do not embarrass your customers, not if you want to keep them as customers.
Leftists/minorities still don't get that respect is something earned by actions and character, not just handed out like participation trophies.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/19/2020 10:59:40 AM (No. 449791)
You all want to really get this bar owner's attention? Start posting your opinions about disrespecting customers on Yelp. Yelp is a great tool for getting a business owner's attention.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/19/2020 11:02:12 AM (No. 449797)
Best to keep your mouth shut when dining (or drinking) out.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
AltaD 6/19/2020 11:28:13 AM (No. 449833)
Do select board members have any power over liquor licenses? Would be such a shame if this restaurant were to lose theirs.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/19/2020 11:45:07 AM (No. 449856)
There's something about Massachusetts. I once stopped in a little establishment in Dalton called The Shamrock where a half-drunk bartender was ranting about conservative policy. To this day, I warn everybody that I know who is going in that direction to avoid the place. Between taxes and hopeless liberal idiots, the whole state sucks.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 6/19/2020 11:45:17 AM (No. 449858)
#s 14 and 18, was the mail carrier keeping a list of people she suspects as being Trump supporters? In this day and age, we should be alert (not paranoid...) but aware of surroundings. However, we must not allow these people to tyrannize us.
I heard this story on Boston talk radio the other day. Lefty hounds of hell have been threatening the Selectman and his wife and children. Police authorities (including the FBI) ought to be engaged in this as civil rights are being denied or infringed.
I suppose people could call and make reservations and then not be able to get there and lose the number so they couldn't call regrets... Yelp is a good idea too.
When college administrators first began to give in to the loudest most hostile demands, letting them shut down speakers or prevent them from coming to campus, engaging in violence without consequences, it was obvious that a generation of uncouth, arrogant ignoramuses would be unleashed into society. Even primary and secondary schools bow down to student "activists" who demand time off for protesting one thing or another.
The anarchic spirit is evil. It will consume everything in the dried tinder of "sunshine patriots."
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
GO3 6/19/2020 11:51:57 AM (No. 449868)
#23, my wife's grandparents in Germany during WWII had a similar experience. Her grandfather had a big chocolate factory and for some reason Hitler embargoed Brazil including cocoa beans. Once grandpa heard this, he said, "Hitler is an idiot." This was reported by one of his staff and he ended up in a camp in Czechoslovakia. Grandma and some family members made an appeal for his release and traveled to the camp and remained outside for days hoping he would be released. Someone informed the higher ups that it might not be a good idea to mess with the German's chocolate supply, especially well-liked by the German Army for quick energy. He was released and went back home to his business and the cocoa shipments were restored. If he had not been in a "critical" industry, he would have remained there until liberated or until he died. This restaurant incident shows how we are now in the same kind of environment.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 6/19/2020 12:36:38 PM (No. 449909)
30 years of participation trophies and pass/fail (always pass) grading systems, while teaching nothing but aggrieved status and we are surprised at our oh so precious little snow flake Soy Boys and Soy Girls out burning stuff down...because...well...Orange Man Bad!!!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 6/19/2020 1:18:03 PM (No. 449937)
And I have said many times something like BLM is “liberal bull****”, usually "leftist....."
And will say, again, here and now, white privilege isn’t real. And black priveledge is encoded in law....affirmative action is black privilege. There is no white privilege.
Fortunately, I won't and don't live in a horrible place like Massachusetts. That is not an accident. Every time I go to Mass, I am reminded how much I despise about 70% of the people there.
I choose to live in Free America. And in my favorite restaurant, my MAGA hat gets a "I like your hat" from the waitress occasionally.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
4Justice 6/20/2020 5:03:16 AM (No. 450544)
It appears leftist Progs can also make up lies to cancel people. Anyone on their side can say they overheard someone say...and that is it. It doesn't matter if it's TRUE or not. The cancelers get online and destroy another ideological opponent's life by saying anything they want.
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