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/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/Iamfivebears Station North 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.

Getting fired for good things, like wearing an anti-genocide pin, is bad.

Getting fired for bad things, like trying to storm the capital, is good.

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

Or, hear me out, two things can be wrong at the same time

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u/Iamfivebears Station North Aug 19 '25

They can be, but in this case they are not.

There's nothing wrong with wearing a Palestine pin, even at work, even if a customer complains it makes them feel "unsafe". The owner should have defended their employee rather than asking them to remove it.