Yeah that’s the head-scratcher for me. I understand why a comment like this would get you uninvited from a speaking event.

But how did all of the other random shit not *also* get him uninvited before? It’s like, “Yo, if you’re going to draw a line why did you wait so long?”

yeah, but the president sexually assaults WOMEN, not boys. so it’s cool.

And I hope that the people who were fired will get job offers from supportive businesses looking to hire. This day of action was really important.

“It doesn’t excuse shit. Both these men are grown and need to find some way to deal with what happened to them without supporting their attackers.”

That’s because they can only relate to situations that they themselves personally have experienced. They have been boys.

I’m not saying it happened. But until he releases his tax returns, can we really rule it out?

Welp. Now we know why he’s so against transgender men using women’s bathrooms. Now we know why he pulled that fake statistic about trans men being more likely to commit sexual assault out of his ass on Bill Maher. 

Was just trying to articulate this, too. So apparently they do have a line (good, I guess?) but it can only be drawn when boys are threatened. And then after they are called out on it publicly. And only after some additional rationalizations earlier today. Way to be principled, guys!

I mean, they could have done a “wear this color in support of” day, which would’ve had more support, but then we’d be reading about people who got fired because the color didn’t match their required uniform color. It’s hard to rock the boat without taking on some risk.

Just remember: they felt all the other awful shit he said about racial minorities, Muslims, women, and LGBT people was just a matter of “free speech”. Apparently this is the thing that was too “offensive” for them and where they felt the need to draw the line in the sand, where they felt the need to “infringe upon his…

That would be the quintessential bay area experience to have the rich folks (SF) poach an asset made valuable by less-economically advantaged people (Oakland) only for the less-economically advantaged people to get a replacement asset worth 1/20th as much as the one they developed. 

Sacramento might as well be in the Bay Area. If you posit it ends at the bridge into Vallejo it’s only another 30 miles.

If you let someone act like the world revolves around them for long enough they come to rely on it.

Only one business in my community closed down for the event and it is the best Mexican restaurant in town. Someone posted on their Facebook page “I guess I’ll just go to Taco Bell instead.” and the restaurant just responded with a puking emoji. It was beautiful.

This guy isn’t going to get it ever. It never occurred to him that his workers were protesting on behalf of an entire community, not just themselves.

But I assume the people who were fired know the recipes, so... maybe just find out where they get hired on?

In the CNN story on this, the JVS Masonry owner sounded like such an ass. CNN used language like “seemingly distraught” when describing how his employees took the day off to protest, like somehow they did it to hurt him. “I’ve gone above and beyond for these people. No one is going to dictate how my company is run.”…

They were warned. It was explained to them. Still, they persisted.

Not as Jazzed as Gordon Hayward! That’s it for me. Good night, folks!

Now I know why his career was cut short. Guy didn’t know the first thing about coverage.