The left constantly preaches “tolerance”… but it looks like progressives are not actually able to tolerate anything that doesn’t match a pre-set worldview.
That liberal intolerance was on full display over the weekend, when the manager of an on-campus coffee shop at a New York university ordered a group of conservative students to get out of the cafe.
Their “crime”? Daring to order while wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and American flag hats.
Campus Reform reported that a woman who identified herself as a manager of Rodrigue’s Coffee House at Fordham University told several college Republicans that they were not welcome in the shop.
“I am protecting my customers,” declared the unnamed young woman during the confrontation, which was captured on video.
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“We are your customers, we bought something,” one of the conservative students replied.
“I don’t want people like you supporting this club… no one here wants people like you supporting our club,” the woman declared. “I am giving you five minutes (to leave).”
As an on-campus coffee shop, Rodrigue’s Coffee House is run by a student club.
“You are threatening the integrity of our club,” the manager claimed. “This is a community standard — you are wearing hats that completely violate safe space policy … You have to take it off or you have to go.”
The coffee shop manager insisted that their MAGA hats contained a racial slur. When asked what slur in particular, her response was to shout, “Fascism! Nazis!“
Ah, yes, liberal “tolerance” in action. Wear an official campaign hat of the president of the United States and be kicked out of a shop. How open-minded!
While a private business may have the right to ask a disruptive patron to leave, there’s a major problem in this specific case: Rodrigue’s Coffee House is on the grounds of the university that the customers attend, and the shop’s own policies claim to support inclusiveness.
The coffee shop said that it was “open to all,” according to a profile in the college newspaper.
Rodrigue’s “is the only on-campus club that provides a daily, tangible service to all members of the Fordham community through low-priced, organic and Fair-Trade coffee drinks as well as an open community space,” the profile continued. (Emphasis added.)
“We went there and just started doing some homework and studying. Then we were asked to leave,” one of the conservative students told Campus Reform.
“We are tuition-paying students, therefore we should be able to use any building on campus that we want,” he stated. “This school is over $70,000 a year in tuition, therefore I feel that I have the right to go into all of the buildings that other students are allowed to go into.”
“I also have the right to wear what I want to wear and express my own political views,” he added. In other words, basic free speech.
The university administration acknowledged that the students had a right to be in the coffee shop, and that there is no college policy that allowed them to be removed based on their pro-America or pro-Trump hats.
“Rodrigue’s is a student-operated part of our student-led Campus Activities Board and advised by Student Affairs staff,” Bob Howe, Fordham’s assistant vice president for communications, told The Daily Caller.
“There is no university safe space policy, nor one that excludes any members of the Fordham community from any public spaces on the basis of their political views,” Howe continued.
This is modern liberalism: Hysteria over hats, blatant intolerance of any diverse political views, and an attitude of hatred against anyone who disagrees.
Freedom of expression is under attack, and it’s coming from the left.
H/T BizPac Review
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