Oregon Trader Joe's manager calmly intercepts anti-mask protesters' shopping attempt: 'That's not go

[jmbar2]

Source: Oregonlive.com

Trader Joe’s nationwide policy requires customers to wear masks in stores.

“We’re not demonstrating, we’re buying groceries,” a protester says. “That’s why I’m here.”

The manager says he is enforcing the store’s mask mandate.

“It’s not a law. You cannot enforce non-law,” a protester says. “You cannot deny somebody the right to commerce.”

The store manager appears to offer to shop for the protesters and bring out what they want. Amid growing shouting, a woman says: “I need to buy groceries. I don’t know what I want until I go in and see it. The Civil Rights Act protects me to go in and shop like everybody else.”

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The nation is suffering from a pandemic of convoluted rightwing "rights" argle bargle. The young manager deserves a medal for his calm and patient handling of the situation.

The antimaskers are taking their stand in one of the hotspots in Oregon for the 'rona. The mutant variant has found its way here.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Private business has every right to deny entrance to their stores to anyone!

[sabbat hunter]

2. Unless they are

discriminating on race, religion, sexual orientation.
Stupidity isn't a protected 'right'

[TigressDem]

25. THIS

Stupidity isn't a protected 'right'

[thucythucy]

57. Or on the basis of disability.

But the ADA has provisions for businesses to make "reasonable accommodations" and also has provisions allowing for exemptions in the case of communicable diseases.

As a disabled person myself I hate it when these people spout off about the ADA, a law they know nothing about and which Republicans have been trying to repeal or gut since 1990.

[Dustlawyer]

14. No shoes, no shirt, no mask, no service!

[TigressDem]

26. No brains, no brisket nt

[Siwsan]

3. It's pretty obvious that they are all reading from a script

Their arguments are practically verbatim.

[certainot]

46. just like the anti 'obamacare' bullshit - a bunch of rw radio talking points that the left never

recognized nor responded to

[torius]

4. Seems menacing and harassment laws might apply

Not wearing a mask is menacing all the people in and around the store. It's creating an unsafe environment. They're harassing him. He offered to shop for them; he didn't deny them service. I want to see these creeps get punished.

[TheBlackAdder]

47. The only was assholes like this learn is by permanent lifetime ban w/tresspass order to their stores

[OldBaldy1701E]

55. Perhaps

But it has been my experience that the only way someone like this learns is when you drag his sorry infected ass out of the door and throw in him into the street. And, if he tries to re-enter, you use whatever means necessary to protect your shop, your customers, and your own life and livelihood. Once a few of these idiots spend a bit of time in the hospital before their trial and sentencing for attempted manslaughter (Which is what this is. Anyone who behaves in this way during a pandemic is guilty of that very charge in my opinion), they might... might... learn. But, as usual, not holding my breath. I mean, they have not learned anything yet...

[uppityperson]

5. "right to commerce"? "Civil Rights act"? Lol, idiots

[PatSeg]

10. I think they believe that

sounds legal and intimidating, but it really makes no sense. Definitely idiots.

[Claire Oh Nette]

27. genuine frontier gibberish

word salad that sound smart to really stupid or ignorant people. Stupid is forgivable. Willful ignorance is not.

Right to commerce....

[PatSeg]

56. Yes and only really stupid people

are impressed. I am in awe of people who know so little, but just keeping talking. She must bore her friends and relatives to tears.

[Phoenix61]

6. Blocking the entrance to a store is probably a

good way to get the cops called on you. What a bunch of maroons.

[left-of-center2012]

22. I thought that too

When the unmasked demonstrator said they were blocking other customers from going in,
that's when the manager should have called the cops.

[barbtries]

7. the selfishnes

oh my fucking gawd. i watched the whole 8 minutes and i just want to slap her.

[Jimvanhise]

8. SELECTIVE MEMORY?

Has she ever objected to signs at businesses which state "No, shirt, no shoes, no service"? No difference.

[SeattleVet]

38. I noticed than those signs NEVER mention 'no pants'.

However, believe me, even if the sign DOESN'T say it...

[d_r]

41. Who gets stuck with all the bad luck?

No one, but Donald Duck

[Lasher]

9. Tell them to imagine the merchant is a Christian bakery

And they are a LGBT wedding cake.

[Rebl2]

21. Exactly what

I thought. The fact is they are trying to protect the lives of their customers by asking you to wear a mask because oh, there is a deadly virus rampaging through our country. What don’t they get!!!

[Enterstageleft]

11. Pandemic STUPIDITY!

[lunasun]

12. Almost as annoying as this one

Link to tweet

?s=21

[left-of-center2012]

24. Okay. I'll not comment on her choice of clothing.

However her use of the word, personhood, I found weird.

[lunasun]

29. She is a weirdo and her racist past comments are no surprise

She was eventually arrested and booked for trespassing and resisting arrest.
BTW, it's not the first time she's been embroiled in controversy.

Falco-DiCorrado, a staunch Trump supporter, was forced to resign from her volunteer seat on the County's Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board in 2017, following controversial remarks made during a meeting to designate Boynton Beach a sanctuary city.

Falco-DiCorrado allegedly told Black residents at the meeting, "You're lucky we brought you over as slaves, or else you'd be deported too." She later told the Palm Beach Post her comments were misinterpreted and she didn’t mean any harm.

[StClone]

13. Giuliani to the defense

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Half of America is broken.

and they don't know it.

They're spouting some crazy non-law about how they have a right to go in and shop however they want. I wonder if they've ever burned a "No Shirt No Shoes" sign.

[Orange Buffoon]

16. How was this eventually resolved?

Were the cops called?

[iluvtennis]

17. So glad the Trader Joe's manager/staff held their line. There is a pandemic on-going, and

you need to follow the rules by wearing a mask. Go shop some place else that'll allow you to be mask-less. I'm so done with these idiots.

[Mr.Bill]

18. I wonder how this ended.

I would have called the police about two minutes into this if I was the manager.

[sillywabbit]

19. In Oregon everyone is required to wear a mask indoors

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and when they can't maintain a social distance outdoors. I'm glad that Trader Joe's has a mask policy, but in Oregon that wouldn't really matter since everyone has to wear a mask indoors.

[marlakay]

61. Hi welcome! Very true

I am in Medford which is a conservative town in Oregon and luckily haven't seen any problems with mask wearing last few months at Trader Joes or Costco. Did see some try in the early months. We have more cases now, this is a retirement town and I bet the older people are scared.

[sillywabbit]

63. Thanks for the welcome, marlakay. I live

in Ashland. According to the Ashland Sneak Preview's poll, 87% of Ashlanders wear masks all of the time.

[marlakay]

70. More wear in Medford than I thought

When you look at cases most are younger people.

[liberalmuse]

20. Don't give me this "misunderstood working class Trump voters" bullshit.

These people think they are entitled. We saw it at the Capitol when they destroyed a sacred symbol of our democracy and killed people, and we see it when they try push their way into a store without masks during a pandemic. God help me, but I have a seething contempt for every one of these entitled horror shows walking around in human skin.

[DURHAM D]

23. Our Kroger owned grocery enforces the mask rule.

People argue all sorts of shit about their rights but the employees just simply say - this is private property and the owners get to make the rules.

I stopped and listened to an idiot (woman about 30) argue with a store manager the other day. She screamed "it is a HIPPA violation to tell us to wear masks". I burst out laughing. She looked at me and repeated the HIPPA thing - I laughed again and said "You don't even know what that means. Better do some more research." She left.

[notinkansas]

28. Good Lord Almighty

What is wrong with these people? The stupid - it hurts!

[Grokenstein]

30. I swear I don't know why America doesn't already have security gates everywhere.

I guess I'm used to them because of the places I've worked.
Imagine the "no-fly list" applied to everyday business.
Cause a scene at Walmart? Never enter a Walmart again.

Fascist? A bit. But this sort of nonsense can't be tolerated forever.

[seta1950]

31. So

Civil rights are ok if helps them, wow what an ignorant bunch

[keithbvadu2]

32. Ma'am, I'm going to spray you with this Lysol product to protect myself.

Ma'am, I'm going to spray you with this Lysol product to protect myself.

I am a customer and have the right to shop here.

I have the right to protect myself by decontaminating you as a recognized hazard.

Donald Trump said that Lysol works.

[Akoto]

33. They just do not freaking grasp the idea that private businesses/entities different rules. n/t

[Claire Oh Nette]

34. Rules for thee, but not for me...

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect..."

Frank Wilhoit: The Travesty of Liberalism

He argues there is only Conservatism. We really ought all be anticon...

[mountain grammy]

35. Give those guys big raises..

for not knocking those idiots out..

[Karadeniz]

36. NO SHOES, NO SHIRT, NO MASK, NO SERVICE. People have been abiding by a business's rules

Forever. This is not new. The only thing new is the GOP turning it into a legal issue.

[BigmanPigman]

37. Maskholes just regurgitate the RE BS that they hear in the talking points

from the Greedy Old Pricks and the propaganda fed to their shriveled brains. They have no idea what laws and rules mean, who establishes them, etc. None of them knows what the Hell they are talking about. When a news journalist speaks with them it is hysterical. They say the same crap that isn't true and when you try to get them to explain any details they never can. They just go on repeating the same BS and then when they realize that they don't know shit they quickly wrap it up with, "You're the fake news, I'm not talking to you".

[kacekwl]

39. Why even speak to them? State the policy and tell

them one time. You will not enter without a mask on and kept on. No further discussion.

[BobTheSubgenius]

40. Wanna know what COVID is like?

*throat punch* Like that. That is how it feels. Now fuck off and quit wasting my time.

Or maybe something rude and aggressive. Depends on the mood.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

42. OMFMFG!! It's a plague of stupidity. nt

[dreamland]

43. Trader Joes can allow only members to shop. The price of membership is a mask.

Do you see non-members shopping at Costco? I think they just want to target Trader Joes.

[NBachers]

44. I thought I'd stick around for the whole thing- I tried, I tried, but I just couldn't listen to her.

I wanted to climb into the picture and tear gas her and her motley group of deplorables.

[Sapient Donkey]

45. Poor guy trying to reason with the unreasonable. I gave up attempting to do that awhile ago

Which is hard to do because that was always my approach to these situations.

[xxqqqzme]

48. My son works at

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Trader Joe's. After one particular trying day, he was going off on the 'difficult' customers. He said the employees are so fed up with the lame no mask excuses. Evidently some customers shop and then at check out unload on the employee. Because Trader Joe's has been good to their employees throughout the pandemic, their employees are loyal.

[onetexan]

49. That's great the store is so adamant about protecting the staff as well as the public.

I'm so glad to see this. Here where we are all groceries stores, and every business i've been to actually, have taken great precautions. the optical place i went to several weeks ago took my temperature and had extra masks in the case a customer came in without one. Science denial seems prevalent with the RW'ers. So glad to see Biden place great importance in science and has appointed a science czar to be on his cabinet. We need to restore America's greatness and dispel ignorance.

[DonaldsRump]

50. The manager made a crucial mistake

He engaged with the anti-maskers. You can't, much like you can't engage with a MAGA't: they are all BULLIES. You cannot speak to or reason with a bully.

While TJ is a "nice" store and the employees are "friendly", I doubt that they would be nice with a person carrying a gun to a cashier saying they need some money as they left their wallet at home. I know it's not a perfect analogy, but these anti-maskers are physically dangerous.

They cannot be let inside. Period. End of discussion, and the manager let it go on way too long, IMO. He could have simply told them you cannot come in without a mask, but then engaging in a discussion about civil rights laws was totally futile: when you engage with them on something like this, you're now playing the game on their terms. Even if they draw you in like that, he could have said no and further said that if they have a court order saying that requiring masks violates civil rights laws, he'd be happy to forward that to TJ's corporate HQ.

And then he could call the police to ask them to remove the trespassers.

[bedazzled]

58. i would have called the cops about 2 minutes in

without telling them. less time to listen to that hideous shrieking why do they all sound the same? it is like the scene in superman when lex luthor is calling the dogs. it is lucky they employ lots of burly men. a lot of places don't

[hydrolastic]

59. Your correct its not really about rights

Its the bully mentality. Where i work in the morning meetings about 30% of the people don't wear masks or not properly after countless times of being "reminded" to wear them. Its about owning the libs. Minority rule is what we are dealing with.

[MissMillie]

51. Where are these people getting this info on "rights"?

There are restaurants in this country that will not seat a man for a meal unless he's wearing suit coat and tie!!!!!

[Traildogbob]

52. Tell it to the religious cake bakers.

Treat “right to life” and breath as we have to “right to cults, I mean religion”.

[marble falls]

53. From the same people who think its alright to not serve gays in bakeries: all they want is a cake.

[Nitram]

60. Ignorant, entitled, morons.

[LiberalLovinLug]

62. "this virus is pinned on everyone whether you have it or not. "

I wish someone there would explain how a virus works to her, in plain 6 year old language.

[Chakaconcarne]

64. These are facebookers going into stores to instigate

They have been doing it all over. They go into a store, most often with masks, then they remove them so they'll get "harassed" by store employees so they can video and post to social media. Cowards remove comments from these posts. Hate those fuckers. I have their Facebook pages somewhere.

[jmbar2]

65. There should be a site publicizing them, like the insurrectionists

They are generating fear and intimidation towards those who REALLY don't want this virus.

[R B Garr]

66. I was talking to a Trader Joe employee about mask

enforcement and told me they explain it’s private property.

How this came up was during my checkout, I had brought a bag in as I’ve done before, but he said they changed back to no customer bags being allowed in since the 2nd wave hit. I said no problem and we talked about how it got tighter again and that’s when he started opening up about the anti-maskers and their silly arguments, and they tell them it’s private property.

[jmbar2]

67. Next time you're in there

..tell them that they have a lot of sympathy and support on this forum. They are essential workers.

[R B Garr]

68. Great idea! I try to be as supportive as possible, but I

might just mention the internet support.

[Luciferous]

69. Couldn't they just call the cops and have them removed

from the premises? I would've lost my job if I was the manager because after about 2 minutes of that bullshit I would have lost my cool with that moron.