It's only bad when you discriminate against gays, or women, or maybe Minor Attracted People, but when you're some uppity failed-mayoral-candidate and you decide not to allow "Zionists" at your bar, that's totally cool.
That is, until the authorities find out, because, yeah, I'm not sure you can legally do that.
Weathered Waves cider bar in Salt Lake City just received its liquor license last week, and now it's posting stuff like this on its Instagram:
Like, how are you going to enforce this? Cuz it seems like you'll just have to kick out the Jews. Or maybe you have a separate section in the back for those kinds of people. Just spitballin' here.
And how exactly is Zionism white supremacy?
I really need to know how that works.
Like, because Jews were being treated unfairly all across the world and we tried to give them a place to go — you know, their homeland — that's white supremacy?
Weird.
In the days since Valentine made the incendiary post, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services received "several comments from members of the public" and requested that the state Attorney General's Office investigate whether the bar is violating anti-discrimination laws, a spokesperson for the agency told the Salt Lake Tribune.
The department is also reviewing its own legal options, after just granting the Weathered Waves bar its liquor license last Thursday, the spokesman said …
The United Jewish Federation of Utah also condemned the "biased policy," and said it had reached out to local, state and federal leaders to investigate the watering hole.
Yet still Michael Valentine, former candidate for Salt Lake City mayor, says he's the one being targeted.
He claimed the bar has received an arson threat and is the victim of "review bombing," he told the Tribune.
Valentine has also denied that his new policy is antisemitic, writing in a follow-up Instagram post: "For the record, we are banning Zionists, not Jews. The exact same way we ban neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and not Christians."
Bro, I can honestly say that's a bar I'd never patronize (I'm probably a white supremacist in Mr.(?) Valentine's mind anyways).
It seems like a place where you get shushed if you're having too much fun.
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