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MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
Wed May 16, 2018, 03:24 PM May 2018

Idiot Lawyer in Manhattan Steps on Own Racist Dick - Goes Viral

An attorney who berated some Spanish-speaking people in a Manhattan restaurant is now paying the price for his bigotry. First, Shaun King picked it up and tweeted out a request for an ID on the lawyer. He got that right away. Now, the tweet and video of this idiot has gone viral, and has been picked up by media all over NYC and beyond.

Link to Google News Search.

People have lined up, too, to dis the moron in Google Reviews and on his Facebook page. This attorney is going to need a good PR firm right quick-like, but I don't see how he's going to recover from this soon.


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Idiot Lawyer in Manhattan Steps on Own Racist Dick - Goes Viral (Original Post) MineralMan May 2018 OP
White man who threatened to call ICE on Spanish-speaking workers busted as Trump-loving NYC attorney dalton99a May 2018 #1
So let me guess,he is a Wellstone ruled May 2018 #7
I have no problem with these racist pigs being doxxed. Roid raging asshole. bettyellen May 2018 #11
lol i just said the exact same thing in another thread NatBurner May 2018 #2
I just saw that. GMTA! MineralMan May 2018 #5
He's auditioning for Trump's legal team lame54 May 2018 #3
Trump will hire him for a White House position dalton99a May 2018 #8
My thought exactly nt Phoenix61 May 2018 #13
If he is still working his way up in a practice, this will not help. SAD! dameatball May 2018 #4
Oh, yes. Turning point in Aaron Schlossberg's career. Hortensis May 2018 #9
You have to wonder how he's going to handle this. MineralMan May 2018 #10
Yes! How these people come out must vary Hortensis May 2018 #14
Or, it could be his own practice. I don't know. MineralMan May 2018 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author dameatball May 2018 #12
He has testimonials on his webpage HopeAgain May 2018 #6
Thoughts and prayers to him. Crunchy Frog May 2018 #16
Ranting Pro-Trump NYC Lawyer Threatens To Call ICE Because Deli Staffers Were Speaking Spanish mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 #17
Damn. Not even safe to hate on Mexicans anymore. Iggo May 2018 #18
Yeah, I'm playing my tiniest violin right now. MineralMan May 2018 #19
Not just Mexicans speak Spanish. cwydro May 2018 #20
I"m about 80% sure the one woman who spoke in English MineralMan May 2018 #21
#notallspanishspeakers Iggo May 2018 #22
Pretty much every language from around the World gets spoken in Manhattan. S.E. TN Liberal May 2018 #23
+1, this guy must be from Dumbfuckastan uponit7771 May 2018 #26
Call them out malaise May 2018 #24
Kick ck4829 May 2018 #25
I am so sad that this idiot is a member of the Bar Gothmog May 2018 #27
How does one become an attorney and not understand the 1st amendment? iscooterliberally May 2018 #28

dalton99a

(81,440 posts)
1. White man who threatened to call ICE on Spanish-speaking workers busted as Trump-loving NYC attorney
Wed May 16, 2018, 03:27 PM
May 2018
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/white-man-threatened-call-ice-spanish-speaking-workers-busted-trump-loving-nyc-attorney/
White man who threatened to call ICE on Spanish-speaking workers busted as Trump-loving NYC attorney
An attorney whose anti-immigrant rant went viral was also shown screaming about “fake Jews” at a pro-Trump rally.

Aaron Schlossberg was identified as the customer who loudly complained that employees at Fresh Kitchen were speaking Spanish to customers — and he threatens to call ICE on everyone after he’s laughed out of the coffee shop.

Schlossberg, whose law office is next door to the midtown Manhattan coffee shop, boasts in his online biography that he’s fluent in Spanish and conversational in French, with a basic knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and Hebrew.

He turned up in another viral video in May 2017 after taking part in a rally in support of right-wing provocateurs Milo Yiannapoulos and Pamela Geller.
 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
11. I have no problem with these racist pigs being doxxed. Roid raging asshole.
Wed May 16, 2018, 03:49 PM
May 2018

He was so very happy he “had his”, now he’s going to have something else!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Oh, yes. Turning point in Aaron Schlossberg's career.
Wed May 16, 2018, 03:46 PM
May 2018

Superiors are warned that he's not house trained and presentable.

Bet these people are feeling pretty oppressed these days, no doubt yammering about suppression of speech, but it was worse in the days when the internet wasn't needed to identify the people who got themselves talked about.

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
10. You have to wonder how he's going to handle this.
Wed May 16, 2018, 03:48 PM
May 2018

He's gonna be a little famous, and not in a good way. I predict some sleepless nights.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. Yes! How these people come out must vary
Wed May 16, 2018, 04:19 PM
May 2018

tremendously depending on situation. I wonder every time. Life in shambles, mostly unaffected,...?

Suspect business may already be adapting by learning to use an official employee laundering via time at a resort or church retreat with counseling, like (mostly right wing) politicians already do. For employees who don't trigger the grounds for immediate firing trapdoor, of course.

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
15. Or, it could be his own practice. I don't know.
Wed May 16, 2018, 04:22 PM
May 2018

But, if it is, he's going to have some trouble getting new clients, I'd think, for a while.

Response to Hortensis (Reply #9)

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
6. He has testimonials on his webpage
Wed May 16, 2018, 03:34 PM
May 2018

Two are companies. One has closed up their site and the other has disabled their contact form. I guess someone has already notified them that their name is on a bigot's web site.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,389 posts)
17. Ranting Pro-Trump NYC Lawyer Threatens To Call ICE Because Deli Staffers Were Speaking Spanish
Wed May 16, 2018, 04:32 PM
May 2018

Hat tip, Joe.My.God: http://www.joemygod.com/2018/05/16/ranting-pro-trump-lawyer-threatens-to-call-ice-because-deli-staffers-were-speaking-spanish-video/

Enraged White Man Threatens To Call ICE On Women For Speaking Spanish In Manhattan Fresh Kitchen

BY JAKE OFFENHARTZ IN NEWS ON MAY 16, 2018 10:05 AM
....

UPDATE: The Forward and other media outlets believe they have identified the man in the video. We have been unable to confirm his identity, but we'll update when we have more.

NEWS

Aaron Schlossberg, Instantly Infamous Lawyer, Gave $500 To Trump Campaign

May 16, 2018 By Dave Goldiner

Aaron Schlossberg, the Manhattan lawyer who achieved instant internet infamy for confronting Spanish-speaking people in a deli, gave $500 to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The donation to Trump was revealed by OpenSecrets.org.

Schlossberg erupted at fellow patrons and workers at a midtown Manhattan deli after he overheard them speaking in Spanish.

He threatened to call immigration agents, although there was no reason for him to suspect they weren’t Americans.

Schlossberg attended the tony Haverford School in suburban Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins University for college, according to his LinkedIn page. He also graduated from George Washington University’s law school.

Iggo

(47,548 posts)
18. Damn. Not even safe to hate on Mexicans anymore.
Wed May 16, 2018, 04:37 PM
May 2018

I didn't listen to the video, but the article I read said he looked around for people to be on his side and found none.

Poor guy.

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
19. Yeah, I'm playing my tiniest violin right now.
Wed May 16, 2018, 04:41 PM
May 2018

Based on the English spoken by one of them, I'm pretty sure they were Puerto Ricans - just as native born Americans as that asshole lawyer.

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
21. I"m about 80% sure the one woman who spoke in English
Wed May 16, 2018, 04:43 PM
May 2018

is Puerto Rican, so she's as much an American Citizen as that creepy lawyer.

S.E. TN Liberal

(508 posts)
23. Pretty much every language from around the World gets spoken in Manhattan.
Wed May 16, 2018, 05:04 PM
May 2018

Part of living in a big city is the fact that people come there from everywhere and bring their languages, customs, religion, and foods with them.

conservatives can't accept the variety of people who exist.

iscooterliberally

(2,860 posts)
28. How does one become an attorney and not understand the 1st amendment?
Thu May 17, 2018, 11:23 AM
May 2018

I thought that in the USA you were allowed to say anything that you want? I was far from the best student in school, but I did take civics. Do lawyers have to take civics? Anyway, I'm going to go back to my Duolingo app on my iPad and keep plugging away. I need to be prepared to stop speaking English in the event that I run into some racist jackass. This seems to be happening way to often lately.

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