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Racialist outrage and embarrassment in Cambridge!

July 22, 2009 - 5:01 am - by Roger Kimball
Peter the Bubblehead
2009-07-23 14:08:31

104. Ronnie Schreiber wrote:
So tell us, to which government employees are we allowed to be belligerent?

Peter asks: So, in your twisted interpretation of reality, I should be allowed to just walk up to anyone and start shouting in their face and insult their mother? I should be able to walk up to the manager in the grocery store and start berating him as racist because he ran out of vanilla ice cream today? I should be able to yell at the bank teller at the top of my lungs because I was charged fees on my bank account? I should be able to yell at the server at McDonalds because I got a pickle on my Big Mac and I didn’t want one, even though I didn’t bother to tell them?

Then why should I be able to yell at any government employee without repercussions? There are laws against disorderly conduct. Gates broke the law. Case closed.