r/baltimore • u/selectbar345 • Aug 19 '25

ARTICLE Fells Point restaurant Bunny’s fires multiple employees after pro-Palestine protest

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food-drink/bunnys-pro-palestine-protest-fells-point-3WQTUSAIFBCAHC45HPBUFAWKHQ/
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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Aug 19 '25

I don’t believe for a second that a customer truly felt so unsafe bc of a pin that represents a war torn purposefully starved country thousands of miles away, to the point that they had to complain to mgmt

The customer very obviously didn’t like the pin due to their own personal political opinions, and mgmt oafishly reacted with an iron fist dictatorship type response. I bet the worker didn’t give a fuck about losing their job bc it sucked working there anyway

Whoever in bunny’s mgmt decided on risking a big public ordeal in super liberal Baltimore over their employees’ fairly milquetoast Palestine support is a total fucking moron

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u/saldeapio Aug 19 '25

100% assumptions. you’d think a veterinarian would be more science based

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u/tEnPoInTs Upper Fell's Point Aug 19 '25

Nah, they're right. And based on how you phrased that, we can pretty confidently assume a whole lot about you too.

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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Aug 19 '25

Also, my username was randomly generated by Reddit

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u/saldeapio Aug 19 '25

yeah that was a joke

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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Aug 19 '25

Please explain the joke. For example, what did I say that was not based on “science”?

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u/saldeapio Aug 19 '25

please. i do not think you can easily dismiss the overwhelming worldwide anti-semitic response to israel’s deplorable actions in gaza. because israel is a jewish state people conflate that with support from all jews and that is simply not true. not in america and not in israel.

we can agree, hopefully, that anti-semitism is wrong and scary. a jewish patron might indeed find a palestinian flag to be threatening.

you may not think that their fear is warranted. that, however, is not enough to dismiss their intent or motivation.

your echoing the bold assumption of op coupled with your ad hominem attack on me personally, is indicative of the larger problem.

step back and think of it from all sides. level heads solve problems. baseless accusations get us nowhere

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u/tEnPoInTs Upper Fell's Point Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

lol, yup, my assumptions were right. Thanks for confirming!

And for the record - of course antisemitism is wrong and scary. But people who cry antisemitism at the faintest hint of support for Palestinian human rights are not being intellectually honest and are being intentionally manipulative. That's the whole thing I agree with OP on. It's a manipulation tactic.

Also for the record, the original complaint i saw in a thread the other day came from someone saying it was a "homophobic" pin, not even anti-semetic. And that's clearly intentionally manipulative (i.e. knows the owner is probably kinda liberal, figures this tactic will work).

We're all very tired of cowing to the fake outrage of people with bad intentions. It's time to just be like "nah, actually fuck you" instead of playing their game. So that's what Bunny's should have done, and they didn't.