Apparently Brandon Straka doesn’t understand the rules. On Thursday, the New York hairdresser who started the #WalkAway campaign, which urges Democrats to jump ship before their party sinks, was abused and discriminated against at a camera store.
“I’m shaking right now. I just went into a camera store to buy a camera and a light and mic, etc. and they recognized me from tv. I was refused service because they said it was for “alt right” purposes. That literally just happened,” he tweeted.
I’m shaking right now. I just went into a camera store to buy a camera and a light and mic, etc. and they recognized me from tv. I was refused service because they said it was for “alt right” purposes. That literally just happened.
— Brandon Straka (The Unsilent Minority) (@usminority) July 5, 2018
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Straka’s first mistake was walking into a camera shop. If you want the protections of the law to force a vendor to serve you, then you have to walk into a bakery and demand they bake a cake with your message. It helps if you are liberal.
Despite Straka’s treatment, or maybe because of it, the former Democrat resolved to double down on his efforts to draw voters away from the party of no:
What happened to me today will NOT slow me down or deter me in any way. We will prevail. #WalkAway pic.twitter.com/i2wAz7tWKL
— Brandon Straka (The Unsilent Minority) (@usminority) July 5, 2018
Reaction on Twitter was pretty much what one might expect:
I’m so sorry Brandon! Welcome to the Right side
As a Latina I’ve never felt discriminated against until I left the DemocratsA journalist went as far as calling my work to get me fired
Stay strong
— Ex-Dem????????Latina (@ExDemLatina) July 5, 2018
It sucks I mean a lot, but this will only make you stronger & give your campaign even more support and momentum. By naming the store, it will bring much needed attention to their bias, just like the Red Hen. They need to be called out.
— DeeDee???? (@dkrwilliams) July 5, 2018
Continue to stand your ground. You are making a difference. We will not be shamed for wanting to preserve sovereignty, liberty, & America. How dare the left vilify you or any of us. Continue to speak out, be loud, be persistent.
— Testy Tarheel ™{⭐} (@TestyTarheel) July 6, 2018
Brandon, I am so sorry this is happening to you. You now must see more than ever you made the right choice to .#WalkAway. The Dems and liberals continue to show how intolerant and hateful they are. Not to mention their hypocrisy and lies are out of control! Stay strong brother.
— ????????Happy❤Patriot Gal???????? (@HappyPatriotGal) July 6, 2018
What kicks the hypocrisy level of this incident up a healthy notch is that, though Straka wasn’t looking to buy a gay wedding cake, he is gay. He spoke out about the incident with Big League Politics.
“This is a specialty shop,” he said. “They have a section for cameras, a section for lighting, and a section for microphones. I finished with every section except the microphones, and when I went up there, another customer recognized me from Tucker [Carlson Tonight]”
Peter D’Abrosca added:
Straka said that the other customer was excited to meet him, pulled up the clip of Straka on the popular cable news show, and asked for a picture. He was excited to meet a fan.
“I was like, ‘cool,’ I made his day,” Straka said.
But then things turned nasty.
The employee in the microphone section who overheard the conversation refused to sell any equipment to Straka because it would be used for “alt-right purposes.” Straka asked that Big League Politics not name the employee.
Straka said that the employee was a fellow gay man, and that when he tried to explain what #WalkAway was, the employee was not interested in having a conversation. Straka was directed to another employee at the store who completed the sale. Straka could not help but point out the irony. He is trying to help liberate the political left from closed-mindedness, and was bewildered that another gay man, supposedly a tolerant liberal, would not simply hear him out.
“I want to stress that the service of everyone else in the store was professional and courteous,” Straka added. “It was just this one employee who treated me poorly.”
Here’s Straka’s interview with Carlson:
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