But I don't think they'd get any of my business.

And none of my business. I guess. But I support you getting all up in their business.

Good Lord, some people need to get off their fainting couches.

makes us look fucking stupid to the rest of the world. They took a topical phrase and made a play on it, and we're treating it like they're refusing to seat black patrons.

There, was that answer you were looking for?

That's all it takes.

is not the same thing as making a joke about the Holocaust.

If the restaurant had been advertising, say, "rough sliders", you'd have a point.

Not funny.

the joy of brainstorming promotions.......

harder than it looks

And cannot empathize with those who are not.

that one is the pits.

Great post. You deserve a little pimento of that.

...and it's probably a reflection of their inner racism.

And all the waitstaff were wearing "political" pun T-shirts like these:

With "All Lives Matter", etc.

Are these folks saying the thousands of staph infection deaths don't matter?

Based on my assumption that if they really cared about black lives, they wouldn't be trying to make a buck off of a cheap laugh at the expense of unarmed black people being murdered by police.

Not that strange at all.

I find it quite easy personally. I care about, well, democracy for example, but I still like Churchill's (possibly apocryphal) comments on it. I care about the victims of the Hindenburg, but I smirk at the huge manatee pun. It really is more than a bit strange not to be able to construe intent and humor. When they print T shirts actually mocking or reversing the idea you'd have a point, but an unrelated play on words is just wry humor and no more.

That might be your problem right there. You seem to have fallaciously ascribed a single ideology and movement to the entirety of one race, and have subsequently determined anything short of unquestioning loyalty to this ideology and movement to be equivalent to racism.

Kind of like how someone could be critical of the American Family Association and be accused of hating the concept of families.

Then there are those who claim "all olives matter," and they have a point too.

--imm

Wry humor is pretty much ubiquitous.