Dear editor,
Jack McEwan wrote in (Hat obnoxious, manager not bigoted, July 17 letter) to take exception to Roland Seguin’s letter (MAGA hat incident bad for B.C. tourism, July 5) regarding the MAGA hat incident in Vancouver recently. While I am certainly no Trump fan and would like to see MAGA hats decorated with seagull poop (fitting the recognition they deserve), I cannot condone refusing anyone service based on where they work or what hat they wear.
To me, that would make me as closed-minded and biased as the very people that I am repulsed by. I don’t believe that someone’s right to service should be based on any factor other than how they are behaving in an establishment –not ethnicity, religion, sexuality… or even where they work or what hat they wear.
Yes, Trump and his minions are narrow-minded and full of themselves, and I also find the never ending stream of nonsense that pours out of their collective mouths offensive. But as long as they are not spouting that nonsense in the restaurant, the conversation should remain wherever it was created, and not dragged into every subsequent room that a person steps into.
As Roland Seguin of Langley stated, “ Like it or not, we are a multicultural society and we should be educated enough to tolerate a wide range of cultural and political views.” Let’s take the high road, and be a better person than those we disagree with.
Andrea Fuller
Courtenay