re: Thoughts about this message on a local restaurant's website?

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I bet you are the kind of person who still believes the KKK is a legitimate threat, despite the fact that their “rallies” couldn’t fill a short bus.

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The KKK is pretty much dead, they have very few members today, maybe 10K or so across the country. They are indeed a non-issue by themselves. The white supremacist movement has been growing but in the short term I don't consider them as any threat. The movement has shifted from bald heads and klan hoods specifically because it allows easy identification and hurts recruiting.

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Wait, are you saying that a website that can be seen and used by every person on the planet has 325,000 members?!?!?!?

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Do you consider Antifa and BLM a problem? I do. If you do as well start comparing traffic on their sites to the white supremacist's sites.

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The KKK is, for all intents and purposes, dead. It it an a toothless, anemic dog that can barely make it to the edge of the porch and bark.

Anyone that suggests the KKK as a real threat in this day and age is either a fool or a liar.

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Can you read? That is EXACTLY what I said.

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Do you consider Antifa and BLM a problem?

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When dining out at local establishments?

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I think what is considered "white supremacy groups" or "white supremacy" has been widely expanded into a vague definition of anyone to the right of Elizabeth Warren. Every time the alleged rise of this mythical beast of white supremacy is challenged, the response is something ridiculous like:

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I am discussing people who identify as white supremacists not ones that other people are saying are and I agree they are two different things.

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Depends how good that burger is.

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It's my favorite burger in New Orleans

If the place was mediocre, then I may be slightly influenced by their stupid stance. I'm not going to sacrifice my happiness (eating their burger), because they don't think the same way that I do, though.

A dollar to add cheese to your burger?

Assholes.

Posted on their Facebook page

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Cowbell
February 21, 2017 ·

There's a crisp $50 for the owner of the #dingo that eats this #baby. #socalleddinner

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Sounds a lot like self-projection and/or self-persecution. Either you have a problem with white supremacism/Nazis or you don't.

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Eh. I'm neither Republican nor a Trump voter (far from it), but it came across the same way to me. It's the deliberate use of the word "condone" that broadens the focus to include any individual the owners perceive as tolerating hateful views just because they might have, say, happened to register membership in the same very large, diverse political party as a white supremacist did. If hate is really what's unwelcome, then direct your message to the actual racist shitebags who'd be responsible for bringing it in. Everybody else is superfluous.

I was raised in a fairly conservative family, and I never once got the message that white supremacy and Nazi-ism were A-OK. I don't think any of my Republican family members don't see those things as a problem; I think they just might see other things as more widespread or urgent problems in 2018 America. Whether I agree with their viewpoint has no effect on if or how they're entitled to feel/vote on those issues, nor does it make them inherently hateful or racist people.

To take the devil's advocate role a little further: If conservative restaurant owners put up a sign requesting people who condone feticide in any form to dine somewhere else because "murder was not welcome" at their establishment, would the public response be the same?

To me, either sign would come across as self-righteous and more exclusionary than welcoming, but I would support each business's right to have it. And they spelled "tenets" correctly on this one, so there's that.

who cares