Darin Hodge: 5 Quick Facts You Need to Know

Darin Hodge, a man from the Vancouver area, was fired from his position as director of the Teahouse restaurant in Stanley Park after being accused of refusing to serve a customer while he continued to wear a "Make" hat America Great Again. 19659003] In this case, in contrast to the decision of the owner of the Virginia The Red Hen restaurant, the Teahouse pointed out that it does not discriminate against customers and terminated Hodge, which n? has not given up his position. In the case of Red Hen, owner Stephanie Wilkinson asked Donald Trump's press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to leave the restaurant while Sanders was dining with his family. In both cases, Wilkinson and Hodge said they were too morally opposed to Trump to do nothing.

Here is what you need to know:

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1. Hodge asked a customer to remove the "MAGA" hat, reports Say

. CBC described the meeting as follows: An unidentified man entered the restaurant wearing the red "Make America Great Again" hat. Hodge worked as a restaurant manager and "confronted" the customer

"[He] took over and asked that he take off the hat," said Andy Crimp, general manager of the restaurant, at CBC. [The customer] said that he was allowed to wear it. [Hodge] said that if you do not remove the hat, we will not serve you. According to CTV, Hodge [traduction] "explicitly denied having refused to serve the customer wearing the MAGA hat", but Crimp says "Hodge asked the customer to remove the hat"

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. ] 2. Hodge told reporters that he was managing by his decision

Hodge did not regret his actions even though they led to him losing his job, according to Global News.

"I stand by my decision to ask the client to take off his hat.The MAGA hat came to symbolize racism, fanaticism, Islamophobia [sic] misogyny, white supremacy, l & # 39; As a person with a strong moral backbone, I had to take a stand against this guest's choice of headgear in my former workplace, "he writes. Canadian News Agency

"Absolutely no regret 3. The company explained that Hodge had been fired for" violating the philosophy of tolerance of society "

Eva Gates, Sequoia Group, the company owner of Stanley Park Teahouse, told Global News that it was true that the manager would not serve the man unless he removed his MAGA hat.

" And the gentleman said that he was allowed to wear this hat. And [the manager] refused to serve him if he did not want to take off his hat, and so the client had to leave, "she told Global News, describing Hodge as a" good person with a big heart and a right to his personal convictions ".

Crimp told CTV that he believed that Hodge should have separated his political beliefs from his work. "I was a little surprised and I was a little surprised," he told CTV News on June 30, 2018. "Our company does not discriminate against people who have different values ​​or beliefs. "

Crimp added to CTV:" I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and their own values ​​and their own philosophy of what they want to feel and believe, but I think that when you are at work and you are a manager, you must give the example to the people who work for you. We do not want people to feel bad about the restaurant and we do not want to create an environment where employees feel they can refuse to serve the people who come to the restaurant. "

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4. The owner of the red hen took a different position

When Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to dine with her family at the Red Hen Farmhouse restaurant in Lexington, Virginia in June 2018, the owner, Wilkinson, asked her to leave. Sanders is consistent, but she took on Twitter to expose the situation, writing, "Her actions tell a lot more about her than about me." I always do my best to treat people, including those with whom I do not agree, and I will continue to do so. "

His father, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and his boss, Trump, tweeted a fiery storm broke out.

In April 2018, a New York judge dismissed a lawsuit by a man who claimed that he had been denied service at a bar because he was wearing a MAGA hat In this case, the man wearing the MAGA hat, Greg Piatek of Philadelphia, says that he was told to leave The Happiest Hour bar in New York's West Village, according to CNN. that the case had humiliated him, but the judge ruled that the bar was not acting outside the law. CNN reported that the property Bar area challenges Piatek's account and says he was asked to leave for allegedly "verbally abusive."

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5. Hodge worked for the teahouse for 18 months and her Yelp page was filled with comments on the controversy

Hodge was working at the Vancouver area restaurant for 18 months

As for the Red Hen controversy, the page Yelp Teahouse restaurant has now filled with reviews both for and against the restaurant and Hodge. The page is now subject to what Yelp has called an "active cleaning alert" in which Yelp tries to remove comments that are generated solely by news stories about the controversy.

One commentator describes the MAGA hat bearer as a man in his 40s or 50s who refused to remove the hat. "I was stunned and exalted when the director refused to serve the person," wrote the author of the comments. Some people said they would no longer go to the restaurant because he sent Hodge back. However, others expressed support for the restaurant's decision to fire Hodge and said it made them want to visit more.

"The Teahouse reacted quickly and fired Darin Hodge for his bigot behavior and because of that I'm going now"