Punchline for those who don’t want to read the article: He’s Puerto Rican.
Do Puerto Ricans have us citizenship?
Yes, Puerto Rico is a US Territory and while it is not one of the 50 states, Puerto Ricans are still American citizens
Yes. It is a U.S. territory.
- Persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899
All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, are declared to be citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at birth.
So he successfully charged them the tip, right?
No. The system automatically adds an 18% tip. Because of their message, he removed the tip from their CC charge.
But he’s a citizen
Ah, I see your point. Yes, he should have kept the tip when you look at it that way.
Sad punchline: The restaurant is closing permanently in a few days.
This reminds me of when Trump said he was going to speak to the president of the US Virgin Islands about some matter.
The mf ordered nachos grande and was racist toward the brown server. Can’t get more 'murican than that.
No! America just wants all the food (and spices) from brown countries!!!1!! Brown people are obviously bad, though!
/s, but not really. Steal the culture and “good ideas,” hurt the people who created those things. All pretty par for the course.
I feel like it’d be pretty hard to get a job in a freaking airport terminal as an illegal immigrant as well… not the brightest racist person there.
I remember in school the teacher trying to explain it wasn’t just Hitler and a bunch of generals, it was a majority of a population, it’s so hard to get your head around so many people behaving so badly. Still a part of me thinks this is a joke or a fake image before my rational thinking kicks in.
I never understood how fascism worked until recently. It’s not the top dictator giving orders, it’s everyone that wants to give him their power and act on his behalf without orders.
It wasn’t even necessarily the majority. Not back then, and not now. What happens is that normalcy bias stops even people who oppose the regime from acting against it until it’s already too late:
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
— Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
This story got darker by the end:
Planet Hollywood in the Tom Bradley Terminal is set to permanently close on Saturday, leaving Ortiz unemployed.
Ortiz then removed the 18.5 percent gratuity that was automatically included, which the receipt states can be done if the customer alerts staff.
Fuck that. If you write a racist message, you should be charged double gratuity
Unfortunately I’m sure the credit card company wouldn’t give a shit and would issue a chargeback
They paid in cash per TFA
I too quoted the article. My statement was more general rather than just “this one racist couple should have been charged more.” Of course they paid in cash, likely with pennies to cent to ensure that their racism didn’t allow the server to get a dime.
“Trump’s America,” folks.
I hate the fact that I have to breath the same atmosphere as do subhuman pieces of shit like the person who wrote this.
Fucking racists.
Planet Hollywood in the Tom Bradley Terminal is set to permanently close on Saturday, leaving Ortiz unemployed.
Way to kick someone when they are already down. There is simply no reason to treat people this way. Treat people with respect and kindness. Treat them how you yourself would like to be treated.
It’s super sad when wait staff remember my wife and I because we treated them like human beings.
Racist degenerate fucking mongrels should be packed off to gitmo for a few years
Ortiz corporate was investigating the matter following his reports to management.
This guy is fucking organized
