They fly Pride flags outside of their establishment year round, they've had an advertised gender neutral bathroom since well before it was trendy. “Let me tell you about these incredibly kind, tolerant and hard working people for a minute. A person whose Facebook name is Nicole Beth said she knows the owners of the Atlantic and that “the ‘joke’ was no doubt in poor taste” but that “this characterization (of them) as bigots or antisemitic is incredibly unfair.” A few people posted negative reviews following Friday’s incident, and one commenter tried to offer insight.
#Mounty meme update#
We will update this story with any response from Atlantic ownership if we receive one.Ītlantic Sports Bar and Restaurant has a 4.4 out 5 rating on its Facebook page with 343 reviews. After receiving no response, we sent another email on Sunday afternoon.Īs of this writing, both emails have gone unanswered. We sent an email inquiring about the meme and the decision both to post it and take it down. We were told that he wasn’t in and the best way to contact him was via email.
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WBSM called Atlantic on Saturday afternoon and asked to speak to the owner. It is unclear if the restaurant staff removed the post, or if it was taken down by Facebook, which has a policy against hate speech and recently began removing posts that deny the Holocaust. The meme was later removed from Atlantic's Facebook page. He told me not to call them back and then, click, they hung up.” “He doubled down on it and said he had just Googled it, he thought it was funny, and that they were very, very busy and it was very hot there, and that they didn’t have time to deal with my concerns or questions. “I then spoke with the owner, who was equally as annoyed with me,” Machado said. So I asked if I could talk to the person that did and she hung up on me.”
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“The girl that answered said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, what post?’ I explained it and she said she didn’t get it, and I said, ‘OK, did you post it?’ and she said no. “I picked up the phone and I called, and said I wanted to speak with someone about a Facebook post,” Machado said. She recounted what happened on Saturday's edition of The Jessica Machado Show.
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WBSM talk show host Jessica Machado, who has children of Jewish descent, saw the post on Facebook and called the restaurant asking for an explanation.