White Appreciation Day 2015: Rubbin’ Buttz BBQ Faces Backlash Over Discriminatory Discount for White People
9th May 2015
The Hispanic owners of a barbecue joint in Colorado plan to hold a “White Appreciation Day,” when white customers will get a 10 percent discount, because it was “the least we can do” to celebrate white Americans, they told Denver NBC affiliate 9 News (KUSA) in a story published Friday. They said the promotion started off as a joke but they will follow through with the idea, which critics label discriminatory.
I love these incidents that hit hit the fault lines of modern Political Correctness.
“We have a whole month for Black History Month. We have a whole month for Hispanic Heritage Month, so we figured the least we could do was offer one day to appreciate white Americans,” said Edgar Antillon, who owns the Rubbin’ Buttz BBQ in Milliken, Colorado, with Miguel Jimenez. They said they’ll devote June 11 to White Appreciation Day, when a 10 percent discount will be taken off orders from white customers.
Calculating the victim points on each side of this controversy is left as a exercise for the reader.
A state official said the promotion could open Rubbin’ Butz to civil rights investigations if nonwhite customers complain about the discriminatory discount. “If someone felt like they were being discriminated against, they could come to the civil rights division and file a complaint in our office, and we would investigate that,” Jennifer McPherson of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies told the NBC affiliate.
Needless to say, if they’d run the same promotion in favor of non-whites, there would be no problem. Your tax dollars at work.