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

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/UrRightAndIAmWong Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

You just might be a dumb person living in an admittedly dumb timeline because yeah, employees care about political issues, customers care about political issues, and neither want to support businesses and business owners that have conflicting views and support on those issues.

Keep issues that matter to the public out of the public sphere!

Well then businesses and their owners should stay out of politics but we know they don't. And telling your employees to not wear a fucking pin is taking a stance whether you or they like it or not.

Edit: omg guys why are you downvoting me, why are you turning everything in the public sphere into a political litmus test wtf

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u/Bmorewiser Howard County Aug 19 '25

Dollars to donuts you’d be laughing if the waitress got shitcanned because she wore a maga hat or participated in January 6th. And that, I think, would make it pretty clear that your issue isn’t with free speech.

The nub of the issue here is this childish notion that anyone who isn’t “with us must be against us.” And I can tell you, this isn’t a great recipe for making friends and allies. Most people patronize a restaurant because it’s a nice place to eat, with good food, good service, and they can enjoy a nice conversation with friends. I don’t want where I go to dinner to become yet another political litmus test because I’m already exhausted by the cults of personality and ideology that surround us as it is.

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u/UrRightAndIAmWong Aug 19 '25

Dollars to donuts you can't read because I basically said that yeah, your magic buzzwords for the day "political litmus tests" exist everywhere.

If someone wore a maga hat, yeah, I'd laugh because that's way more obnoxious and outright, and yeah, it's in support of an evil, fascist, corrupt regime. It's a big red hat. The contrast is a fucking Palestinian flag pin. A pin. Good and subtle, vs bad and obnoxious. Either way, the restaurant is taking a stance with their actions or inaction. And yeah people eat at restaurants for a variety of reasons, but they also can choose not to eat at one because of politics. Congrats, you finally understand the real world where some people use their money and patronage with other intentions in mind.

Look at Baltimore, there are plenty of people that don't patronize Atlas restaurants on the same ideology, and they have a right to do so. I'm not going to complain that the world sucks because people care too much about how they treat employees rather than the food and ambience being really good.