Too bad he was too decent to name the place. Any retribution that might happen is richly deserved.
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I do feel for the guy, but I also feel bad for the restaurant. It's not an easy position to be in. It seems like a pretty rare condition and it's not like he will be carrying any sort of proof as to what the condition is let alone anyone on staff at the restaurant that could diagnose him or even say if the condition matches what he claims it to be.
If someone walked in with small pox I would hope the restaurant would eject them, but it's not like they would be able to say if it is or isn't small pox. It's a no win situation for both parties involved.
He said they had told him that although it was a hate crime, it was "unlikely" officers could pursue it further.
But when someone shop lifts from a corporation, here come the cops running
Time to lawyer up. Though I don't know how the law works there in Britland.
That's just horrible. And wtf is this "Yes it's a crime but what can we do?" bullshit. Man I feel sorry for that guy. No body deserves to be treated that way. He just wanted to have a nice night out. Fuck that restaurant.
It seems that some British hate handicapped/disfigured people. Just read this article about a kid in a wheelchair being excluded from the school photo. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/29/aberdeenshire-pupils-with-complex-needs-erased-from-school-photo
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/04/school-photos-disabled-children
or people complaining about seeing a tv host with a missing arm. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/feb/21/tv-presenter-cerrie-burnell
It's just good old British Classism that never went away.
Wonder if it's got anything to do with thalidomide disfiguration.
Don't all countries have this problem?
Maybe it's just where I was raised, but I don't see this at all in my day to day life in the US. Things have come a very long way.
I'm sure there are still things that are shitty that I probably wouldn't notice as I'm not in that position... But in general, most people here don't seem to give a shit these days.
To be clear, I'm not referring to classism. That still exists to a degree, though it's mostly been supplanted by racism.
We have out problems, but were actually really good about ableism, so silver lining. Still feel for that guy though, hope he gets all the good things he deserves
I see people with prosthetic legs all the time at my work (grocery store) and I think nothing more of it than "that guy could do an absolutely dope robot costume for Halloween"
I did see someone with double prosthetic legs and that was cool.
As a guy with a prosthetic leg that walks in grocery stores. Yes, we can do awesome costumes. Yes, a lot of horrific discrimination still happens in the US to non-abled bodied and non-neurotypical peoples.
Oddly enough Australia is one of the most accepting countries I’ve been in when it came to PWD. Elevators for every train platform and if one broke they fixed it straight away. They also didn’t exclude lower income people no where near as much as they do in the US, Canada or UK.
That said, the way they treat women, First Nations and POC or just about anyone who isn’t australian leaves much room for improvement.
To some degree. Never heard of handicapped kids being excluded from school photos in my country though.
Never heard of it. It's difficult to know how much of the difference is the actual occurrence and how much is the reporting of it.
And if you were asked to leave in the US because of a facial disfigurement you could fully expect to have a business closing lawsuit won against you in no time at all. Wa are as litigious AF for better or worse, usually worse.
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