Chicago Pizzeria Lambasted for ‘Racist’ Dress Code That Bans Hoodies, Baggy Pants
2nd June 2017
A Chicago pizzeria and bar is coming under fire for instituting an insanely complex “dress code” that some patrons are calling racist.
I’m a racist, you’re a racist, he’s a racist, she’s a racist, wouldn’t you like to be a racist too?
Immediately, the bar was excoriated by social media users as “racist,” with one hyperbolic Facebook commenter even calling the list evidence of a “new Jim Crow.” Another accused Bottled Blonde of contributing to the breakdown of the moral order across the country.
There are, indeed, quite a few items listed in Bottled Blonde’s dress code that give rise to the idea they’re attempting to exclude minorities. Prohibitions against baggy pants, expensive sneakers, hoodies and single-color clothing, target gang members, but they also target minorities.
I doubt seriously that Barack and Michelle would be turned away, so ‘target minorities’ is just a politically tendentious lie. It targets ‘gangstas’ and thugs, and if a large number of ‘minorities’ fit that bill, whose fault is that?