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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
But Wadi’s American dream came crashing down to Earth on June 4, when his 24-year-old daughter admitted to him that she had written a series of deeply racist and anti-Semitic posts on Twitter and Instagram starting when she was 14 years old until she was 18. An activist had drawn public attention to these posts after stumbling across an especially noxious one. That same day, Wadi did what he describes as “one of the toughest things I’ve ever had to do in my life”: he fired his daughter from her position as the company’s catering director.
Neither Wadi’s long standing in the community nor his quick action to sever his company’s ties with his daughter are likely to salvage his company. Nearly all of his business partners have canceled their contracts. His landlord terminated the bakery’s lease.
After he saw his life’s work evaporate in a few days, Wadi reluctantly told me, he has struggled to sustain his belief in the American dream. “All that I’m asking is that everyone who canceled our lease, who threw out our products, who is calling for a boycott of our produce give us a chance to prove that this is not who we are.”
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...nocent/613615/
The baker doesn't need to ask for redemption. That's preposterous. His daughter needs to ask for it. He did nothing wrong. He did exactly what he was supposed to do - fire his racist daughter.
The story should end there. But no... The social justice warriors, and let's be clear about this - most of these people have nothing else much going on in their lives, which is why they join these mobs - won't have that. They want to tear him down. Ruin the guy.
Why? It is inescapable that they do this in significant part for the same reason rural losers in trailer parks cheer along with Trump when he "owns the libs": They have no success of their own. The only currency they have is moral judgment and the exhilaration of for the first time in their lives being part of a group that can exercise some power (through online shaming and boycotting). They can't make successes of themselves, so their only way of evening the playing field is to try to ruin the success of this businessman.
You won't see many smart, successful people engaged in these mob behaviors. They've got jobs and hobbies. They have lives.
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The Midtown Global Market cancelled his lease while the neighborhood around it was a fire over racist policing and while residents of the apartments above it and tenants were spending their nights trying to prevent people from burning it down (he also has another retail location, where, I think, the actual baking takes place). It's open again, but still largely boarded up. Much of the rest of its block burned to the ground. Without that context, he probably would have faced fewer consequences.
I also vaguely recall that there was more than just the old social media posts, but I don't recall what. Maybe it was just other racist stuff from other family/employees.
