Punchline for those who don’t want to read the article: He’s Puerto Rican.
Do Puerto Ricans have us citizenship?
Yes they do.
Edit: As others have said, Puerto Rico is a US territory rather than a state, and they don’t have representation in Congress, but in all other aspects (and as far as “papers, please” goes), they are 100% US citizens.
Yes but US conservatives don’t seem to know it.
A lot of them aren’t even aware that New Mexico is a US state.
Fun fact: Even less people are aware that New Mexico was named so centuries before the country of Mexico was named.
Ahem…that particular state is now known as New America!!!
I think I watched a video about a Hertz representative who wouldn’t rent a car in Florida or some other shithole to someone with a New Mexico driver’s license because they didn’t have their passport
Damn so insult and wotholding pay just to make a point. Wow.
It’s a racist message, but where was the withholding of pay?
Isn’t minimum wage lower in place where workers receive tips as part of their wage? Because if so, I’d say not tipping is equal to not being paid wage
The patron only has a responsibility to pay for thier meal, not subsidize the wages of the servers. Places outside of the US have figured that out.
Not tipping isn’t withholding pay or payment.
Edit: tipping culture is a failure of worker protections.
It’s pay in the US. Your country’s customs are not universal.
Nope, if the patron has chosen to do business in a stupid shitty country like mine they should pay a reasonable tip or they’re an asshole. I agree that it’s a completely stupid system that needs change, but screwing the server for a stupid culture they have no control over is not cool.
Yes. US federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hr.
But, at the end of the pay period, if pay+tips is less than $7.25/hr, the employer legally must increase the pay to make sure they reach regular minimum wage. (But $7.25 is still far below a living wage in most areas.)
Someone didn’t render unto Caesar.
Yes, Puerto Rico is a US Territory and while it is not one of the 50 states, Puerto Ricans are still American citizens
For anyone who doesn’t know, Puerto Rico is a US territory, but not a state. So they are citizens, but residents of PR lack some representation in a lot of things in the US.
Yes. It is a U.S. territory.
- Persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899
All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, are declared to be citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at birth.
This reminds me of when Trump said he was going to speak to the president of the US Virgin Islands about some matter.
So he successfully charged them the tip, right?
No. The system automatically adds an 18% tip. Because of their message, he removed the tip from their CC charge.
But he’s a citizen
Ah, I see your point. Yes, he should have kept the tip when you look at it that way.
Sad punchline: The restaurant is closing permanently in a few days.
I remember in school the teacher trying to explain it wasn’t just Hitler and a bunch of generals, it was a majority of a population, it’s so hard to get your head around so many people behaving so badly. Still a part of me thinks this is a joke or a fake image before my rational thinking kicks in.
It’s so hard to get your head around so many people behaving so badly.
See also:
80% of Israeli Jews support US President Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza, survey finds
Every society can fall to fascism when the conditions are right. Humans are pack animals and susceptible to mass delusion.
I know these numbers, rationally this is not news, but emotional I just can’t believe this is true. Would I also be one of those supporters if I were born somewhere else? Are these people really like you and me?
I grew up in a fairly conservative household. I used to read the rags my parents considered newspapers, people in my social circles and schools were mostly middle to upper class, and I idolized my father.
It took me a long while to realize I was seeing through distorted glasses, even after I started mingling with different viewpoints.
There always was a gut feeling that something didn’t add up, cognitive dissonance maybe.I sometimes wonder what kind of person I’d be had I not been high on the neurodivergent spectrum and pushed on the outside.
Privilege and social echo chambers make for pretty efficient blindfolds.
Yes exactly this. But even worse is that people’s opinions and pov on life shift during their life, also to the ‘wrong’ side. Am I good person for actively speaking up against the palastinian genocide, or am I just one of the lucky ones that haven’t gotten blindfolded (yet).
Keep questioning and the answer will be no.
It wasn’t even necessarily the majority. Not back then, and not now. What happens is that normalcy bias stops even people who oppose the regime from acting against it until it’s already too late:
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
— Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
In high school, I thought that this stuff couldn’t happen here, not anymore, at least not at such a scale, and I was amazed that it had happened at all in the first place.
Now I know better.
This common attitude of “we’re better than that” towards historical fascism is one of the reasons countries like the USA became so ready to succumb to it. If you assume it can’t happen to you, you’ll miss all the signs when it starts. We all need to recognize that Nazism is how ordinary people like ourselves can get when the conditions are conducive to it. Germans in the 1930s and 1940s were not uniquely evil; they were like us. No person or society is immune, and resisting Nazism starts with resisting it in yourself and your community.
I never understood how fascism worked until recently. It’s not the top dictator giving orders, it’s everyone that wants to give him their power and act on his behalf without orders.
Dear Leader gives the people a boogeyman to blame for all of their fears. Dear Leader and his cronies spout lies upon lies about their boogeyman to keep the people scared and in line.
In essence, Dear Leader creates a problem, then sells a solution.
It’s a tad more insidious than that. Some people also secretly always wanted to be pieces of shit towards someone. Then dear leader gives them green light and a target to do all the awful things they wanted to do.
Yep. People suck.
creates a problem, then sells a solution.
I think you summed up microsoft’s last 30 years there.
The mf ordered nachos grande and was racist toward the brown server. Can’t get more 'murican than that.
No! America just wants all the food (and spices) from brown countries!!!1!! Brown people are obviously bad, though!
/s, but not really. Steal the culture and “good ideas,” hurt the people who created those things. All pretty par for the course.
I feel like it’d be pretty hard to get a job in a freaking airport terminal as an illegal immigrant as well… not the brightest racist person there.
They stayed through the meal. They were okay with the “illegal immigrant” serving them. Just not paying for their service.
This is it. If we still had Jim Crow laws, this would be one of the people screaming about how we need to laws to keep them separate. They get off on the heirarchy and believing that they’re higher up the ladder than someone else.
These people think that so called “illegal migrants” are both undocumented and receiving benefits. Logic and reason aren’t their strong suits.
Plus, you’re at the brown=illegal migrant stage.
People like that are not the brightest doorknobs in the bunch.
Definitely not the sharpest lightbulb in the crayon box.
Why do you want your door knobs to be bright?
So I can find my way to the bathroom at night
Not all stupid people are racists, but all racists are stupid.
Is that an issue that we still call a racist a person?
This story got darker by the end:
Planet Hollywood in the Tom Bradley Terminal is set to permanently close on Saturday, leaving Ortiz unemployed.
TIL Planet Hollywood still existed.
Ortiz then removed the 18.5 percent gratuity that was automatically included, which the receipt states can be done if the customer alerts staff.
Fuck that. If you write a racist message, you should be charged double gratuity
Unfortunately I’m sure the credit card company wouldn’t give a shit and would issue a chargeback
They paid in cash per TFA
I too quoted the article. My statement was more general rather than just “this one racist couple should have been charged more.” Of course they paid in cash, likely with pennies to cent to ensure that their racism didn’t allow the server to get a dime.
Fucking racists.
Planet Hollywood in the Tom Bradley Terminal is set to permanently close on Saturday, leaving Ortiz unemployed.
Way to kick someone when they are already down. There is simply no reason to treat people this way. Treat people with respect and kindness. Treat them how you yourself would like to be treated.
It’s super sad when wait staff remember my wife and I because we treated them like human beings.
“Trump’s America,” folks.
Wish they could post a security camera image of the racist couple who did this. Make them infamous dammit.
Imagine the irony of being in an airport and telling someone to go back to where they’re from. Why don’t you go back to Coeur d’Alene, Karen?
But happy enough to accept the work.
Racist degenerate fucking mongrels should be packed off to gitmo for a few years
I hate the fact that I have to breath the same atmosphere as do subhuman pieces of shit like the person who wrote this.
I don’t know why people have so much hatred.
If you don’t like the tipping culture fine, why gotta add racism?
This isn’t about tipping culture. It’s very specifically about racism. Tipping is just the thing they’re using to punish the people they hate
That’s actually why tipping started!
