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Pm Deering's avatar

What did the manager think these guys were going to do? Use up the wifi? I may be overly-simplifying, but I think a lot of this comes from white people being insulated from interacting with black folks. (by way of private schools and exclusive neighborhoods and economic injustice and pig ignorance.) Where I live, it's really diverse, and people of every kind don't bat an eyelash at each other. No one should be that terrified by an ordinary, benevolent group of fellow citizens.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Can you quote the legal statutes that cover that 'not allowed' bit? As I can't find a single fucking thing on the Starbucks legal page that says anything about that.

Now, a business can ask you to leave if you are disruptive or offensive or try to steal stuff. True. They can ask you to leave if the are closing. But they can't actually make you leave if you aren't spending money there quick enough for them. That is a bit of a 'grey area'. I would say that if they don't have signage up on the wall that says something along the lines of 'If you aren't purchasing or consuming our items, we reserve the right to ask you to leave'. And even then, that mightn't fly if local bylaws don't match that.

Funny old world isn't it? When the sensibilities of some folks need to match what goes on in the world outside. If you escalate a situation based on something that frightens or upsets you personally you end up looking like shit. This is also true for cake-makers who seem to take a lot of offence about their clients too.

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