You’re being overly generous. On a good day it says WY.
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The homophobic pizza place was a little bit of a different story. They weren’t looking to make a statement, they were just interviewed by a local news team and said whatever random crap popped into their head.
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His sign wasn’t Minnesota nice. It was a level of bluntness that’s completely out-of-place in the Midwest, with the possible exception of Indiana.
Since this was Minnesota, I expected the sign to say “Muslims, I’m sure there’s some place you’re welcome.”
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Yes, his sign lacked passive aggressive, superficial politeness.
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Hey!
I mean it’s totally accurate.
But hey!
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Christ, what an asshole.
(I was going to write something about how if one is not careful to make sure that the likely reading of one’s words don’t match the intended meaning of one’s speech, one can really come across as a total asshole, but I didn’t have room this seemed more appropriate.)
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I went to college in Indiana. Indiana feels more like part of the South than the Midwest.
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I tend to disagree on purely culinary grounds, but there was a time when 1 in 5 white Hoosiers were Klan members. (Or something alarmingly close to that number.)
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Muslims get out the vote!
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Oh, I hope so.
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I included the reference to “Minnesota Nice” as a contrast — reality vs myth.
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My experience is that it’s generally true, but not absolutely true. Plus, Minnesota Nice is more like sugar-coated nastiness than actual niceness.
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Observed in Seattle, “observant” Muslim asking if the late night hotdog carts were halal only to get chewed out by the vendor for being drunk as a skunk at the time.
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Similarly I wonder why everyone begs for “southern niceties”, the grass is always greener I guess.
Mark Twain called it out for enabling evil.
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Yeah, he’s probably not the most observant Muslim in the world if he’s drunk, but if he wants a halal hot dog, Allah bless.
Because they’ve never been in the south long enough to see those niceties for what they really are?
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Nobody said anything about comparing, and more importantly, nobody said anything (until you did) about comparing scale. All that was said, or implied actually was that Christians (i.e. some christian faiths) have restrictions, based on religion, on what food is acceptable (usually only at certain times).
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That’s a Jesuit for you.
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