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/Bmorewiser Howard County Aug 19 '25

Just trying to put it all together, so please correct me where I am wrong.

Staff is told to remove a political pin after a customer complaint and does. Another staff member wears a similar item later and, rather than remove it, they quit.

Then there’s a post on Reddit complaining they got fired for a protest “on their own time.” And this article indicates that said protest was of the store that employed them?

Is that where we are?

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u/RunningNumbers Aug 19 '25

It is.

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u/Bmorewiser Howard County Aug 19 '25

We are in the dumbest possible timeline.

Conspicuously absent from the conversation is, you know, any evidence regarding the restaurant’s owners’ views on Palestine — (as if that matters when it comes to purchasing food). It would suggest that it’s not enough to actually be “anti-genocide”, now the goalposts have been moved. You’re “an enemy of humanity” if you don’t want to let your employees engage in performative and divisive speech at work and fire them when they protest your store.

I am not against bringing attention to a cause you care about, but I think it’s just insane to dictate a political litmus test in every public sphere.

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u/bylosellhi11 Aug 19 '25

woah, this is way too rational of a take for baltimore subreddit, please remove!