As much as you want it to be Someone Else’s Fault, it’s not. For one, because even a soldier isn’t an automaton. But even moreso, because calling ICE on someone is not SOP.

Even if it was, though, on what basis would the officer have had to contact ICE? He asked for ID, that’s his job and is indeed required for…

AFAIK, yes. I don’t personally have one, but my understanding is that they work just like a driver’s licence, in terms of identification, just without the allowing you to drive a motor vehicle part.

No one is saying military bases shouldn’t check ID. In fact, if you could read, you’d know that the pizza guy had ID. ID that’s entirely legal. So the only reason to detain this fine fellow, not to mention calling ICE over the NYPD, was because he just wasn’t white enough for the officer on duty.

That makes that…

A muni ID is a legal form of identification. It’s basically a driver’s licence for people who don’t drive (of which there are plenty in NYC). So the only thing he was ‘picked up for’ was not being white.

If he’d been driving without a licence, protocol would have been a call to the local civy PD, not ICE.

Not that I’m excusing the Kinja sites, but, I haven’t heard a peep about this anywhere. Not TV-news, other news-sites I check, or my Facebook and Twitter idiot friends, etc.

Got a link to this story?

For your specific example, a hatmaker could refuse a “MGMA” hat on the basis of the message. But they could not, say, refuse to make a red baseball cap that someone else would sew said slogan onto.

Going back to the bakery. They could refuse to have a cake depicting a man performing felatio, or even, I suppose, refuse…

I get your point, but in the US you can’t just not serve someone ‘because’. And this story is about, wait for it, the US.

Or, well, more specifically, you can throw someone out or refuse to serve them, but if you can’t prove an at least mostly plausible reason to do so (in the case that said person accuses you of…

Not baselessly, no. That’s called discrimination, and as LtCmndHipster pointed out, there was pretty major movement about that you may have read about in History class.

I, uh, I don’t think this “sick burn” came out quite the way you intended.

In a general sense I can see how damn near anything could be art, especially in the moment. But if the end result of your talents is a cake that people eat (or a home they live in, or the foam of their drink) then your job is not “artist”. You’re merely applying artistic flair to another vocation.

A baker isn’t an…

While this is true, it’s also still possible to apply the situation in reverse. The tricky part would probably be getting a couple Bible-thumping Christians to place an order with a non-Christian bakery for a custom cake.

The point though, is if that did happen, the Bible-belters would be in an uproar about how they’re…

You, realize this isn’t some newfangled thing. It’s been used for ill, surely, but not universally. Back in “the good old day’s” you would absolutely be ostracized from your small town if you acted like an ass. Punishments much, much less mondain than the lynching to so desperately want to ‘slip’ to were the norm.…

The editing all over has been pretty spotty, but it seems to be getting progressively worse. #2 especially jumped out at me. I don’t think I’ve ever had someone age a year while I was reading an article before. At least, not someone else.

Yeah I don’t have a horse in this race, but holding visual novels and the like to different standards because, what, they’re “anime games?” is asinine.

While this makes sense on its face, it falls apart if you actually look at a fair bit of what ‘sex games’ there are on Steam. At least, based on this and other articles (I’m not exactly a purveyor).

A lot of them are either visual novels, which while they almost always have some element of sex, usually as a reward,…

Right? I’ve wanted a Zelda game where you can play as Zelda (honestly both Zelda AND Link) since I really got into the series with OoT. BotW especially seemed like a great platform to have a ‘Master Quest’-ish post-completion mode/campaign where you play as either Zelda or both her and Link.

Of course the game also…

Oh please, I’m not trying to be the cosplay police. I’m just saying that people are allowed to criticize them, like any other form of art. The shirt is inaccurate to the source material, along with a few other minor details, which is a totally valid criticism.

It doesn’t make the cosplay bad, but I’m not sure I’d call…

Seriously, the wasabi in the soy sauce thing sounds really strange to me, and I know someone who likes to use the wasabi to stick a piece of ginger to each bite of their sushi.

Everything on this list is pretty standard stuff, to the point where I’d be pretty surprised to find someone who regularly eats sushi and…

It’s certainly shitty when someone tries to shame someone for what they wear.

However, this is a cosplay, and as evident in the header image, 18's top isn’t that low cut. So at least some of the complaints seem to be more that the cosplayer chose the wrong style of top, not that she has larger breasts or whatever.

Meiji, which is basically Japan’s equivalent to the US’s Hershey’s or UK’s Cadbury, is quite good. And in terms of ‘premium chocolate,’ Royce is some of the best chocolate I’ve ever had, easily at par with with the EU’s finest.