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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 07:46 AM Sep 2017

Toothless, ruthless, clueless, racist Oklahoma guy just wants English spoken in his thrift store.



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/youre-speaking-immigrant-oklahoma-man-goes-berserk-rant-caught-on-video-by-hispanic-woman/

An Oklahoma woman was accosted at a thrift store by another shopper who overheard her speaking Spanish on her cell phone.

The Durant woman, Maty Roberts, was speaking to her sister on the phone while shopping at Goodwill when an unshaven white man approached her and began hurling racial slurs, reported KXII-TV.

She said he also harassed her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend before Roberts began recording video.

“He just kept spitting out words, like, ‘You’re an immigrant and you need to go back to your country,'” said the woman’s daughter, Alison Roberts.
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Toothless, ruthless, clueless, racist Oklahoma guy just wants English spoken in his thrift store. (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2017 OP
If I were close I'd take my white ass there and speak Spanish sharedvalues Sep 2017 #1
So many of these people are just gross in every way. dewsgirl Sep 2017 #2
What a fine example of white manhood HAB911 Sep 2017 #3
MAGA!! HopeAgain Sep 2017 #4
This is trump's America. lamp_shade Sep 2017 #5
Okay. Whatever. If this was a Goodwill store, though, Hortensis Sep 2017 #6
Just to be fair, it wasn't "his" store... ret5hd Sep 2017 #7
The implication of my subject line... Miles Archer Sep 2017 #12
I wish we could send people like him back to the country of their ancestors and back to the caves. haveahart Sep 2017 #8
And despite their squealing their endless little talking points.... mreilly Sep 2017 #9
That asshole could have saved himself a lot of trouble... Orrex Sep 2017 #10
No one ever spoke any language besides English Mariana Sep 2017 #16
Exactly. We talk AMERICAN here and nothing else. Orrex Sep 2017 #19
I find it incredible DonaldsRump Sep 2017 #11
E Pluribus Unum! Deb Sep 2017 #13
I live about 25 miles from the Oklahoma border and won't cross it. sinkingfeeling Sep 2017 #14
In the unlikely event that I ever go into that store, greatauntoftriplets Sep 2017 #15
How soon before he is Trump's press secretary? Johonny Sep 2017 #17
A fine specimen of the master race dalton99a Sep 2017 #18
Soon to be in the trump cabinet? spanone Sep 2017 #20
Why are people so opposed to other languages? SwissTony Sep 2017 #21
Being foreign and/or educated is a bad thing in Trump's America dalton99a Sep 2017 #22

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Okay. Whatever. If this was a Goodwill store, though,
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 07:59 AM
Sep 2017

maybe they'll offer this sad specimen a job. Goodwill hires a lot of people who have trouble getting jobs elsewhere, including a lot of people with mental and physical disabilities.

Lol. Last time I was in one I watched one of the former industriously turning all the books standing vertically on the shelves to lie horizontally in heavy stacks. She felt it would make it easier for her and others because they wouldn't have to bend their necks sideways to read the titles. Couldn't argue with that. She was right. I did suggest it might make it difficult for customers to pull books out for examining, but she seemed to think I was offering another good reason. Nice, happy woman, and after chatting a bit I left her to it. Lots of bookshelves in that store, only wondered how far she'd get before a manager happened by.

ret5hd

(20,509 posts)
7. Just to be fair, it wasn't "his" store...
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:00 AM
Sep 2017

what I mean is that he doesn't own, manage, or work at the store.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
12. The implication of my subject line...
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:10 AM
Sep 2017

...was that since he's deciding what is and is not acceptable in the store, he acts as if he owns it, which is part of the "entitlement" sensibility that Trump has bestowed on his supporters. So yes, "his store" was irony and sarcasm and intended as such.

 

mreilly

(2,120 posts)
9. And despite their squealing their endless little talking points....
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:02 AM
Sep 2017

.... about how Democrats founded the KKK (back before the racists all fled to the GOP) and Senator Byrd of West Virginia admitted to being in the Klan in the 1940's and even though that was decades ago and he's been dead for years but that really somehow proves all Democrats are the racists....

.... you know this asshole ran out to vote for Trump. So did ALL of the assholes shrieking "TALK ENGLISH ONLY! GO BACK HOME!"

But the asshole sycophants chanting crap like what I described above would have you believe this is a Hillary supporter. Or at the very least "This guy doesn't represent Trump!"

Literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Orrex

(63,219 posts)
10. That asshole could have saved himself a lot of trouble...
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:03 AM
Sep 2017

by minding his own fucking business.

A now-former coworker used to lose his shit whenever he heard two members of our bilingual customer service team speaking to each other in Spanish. He seriously couldn't stand it and would gripe about it for the rest of the day.

He blamed Barry HUSSEIN Obummer for this accursed multiculturalism, of course.

Mariana

(14,860 posts)
16. No one ever spoke any language besides English
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 10:03 AM
Sep 2017

in the US before President Obama took office.

Gawd. Repukes are stupid.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
21. Why are people so opposed to other languages?
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 10:12 AM
Sep 2017

In most countries (AFAIA), speaking two or more languages is considered as desirable and perfectly normal.

My daughter is bringing up her daughter to speak English as well as Dutch. (We live in The Netherlands). We speak to her in English (even though we all speak Dutch) and she replies in English. To other people, she speaks Dutch. If we lived in Belgium, we'd get her to speak French as well.

Maybe an American Native speaker should have a word in this guy's ear.

dalton99a

(81,565 posts)
22. Being foreign and/or educated is a bad thing in Trump's America
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 10:19 AM
Sep 2017

Except for young white females from Russian-speaking lands, and Nazis

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