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Signspotting: Racists, Sexists, Homophobes and A**holes Not Welcome, Seattle
by Mike Richard
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That pretty much clears it up. What about self-loathers and sign-haters though?
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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May 14th, 2008
Thats hate speech and I wont stand for it.
May 14th, 2008
Nice!
May 16th, 2008
Awesome!
May 19th, 2008
haha that probably saves them a lot of trouble of kicking people out…
May 20th, 2008
Where in Seattle is this?
May 21st, 2008
@jacob: I’m not certain, but here is the link to the photo on Flickr. You might be able to dig up some additional info there.
May 21st, 2008
Definitely didn’t see this when I was in Seattle last summer!
Wish I had.
June 5th, 2008
Are bigots who only hate assholes still bigots?
June 5th, 2008
@dave: Ha! Well according to Dictionary.com, a bigot is:
“a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.”
… so, yes. If you are intolerant of assholes, you are still a bigot.
But who cares? Asshole bigots, unite!
June 5th, 2008
So, it’s OK for me to be a bigot as long as I’m the right kind of bigot?
June 10th, 2008
this sign looks photoshopped to me. I dont accuse a lot of things of being photoshopped but if this were real then the red should be more faded and (most importantly) the letters would point outwards and not inwards so from this angle you should see the mirror image. of course I could be wrong but that is what it looks like to me
June 10th, 2008
Hm. I’ve definitely never seen this before. Judging by the background, it might be on capitol hill, or maybe georgetown.
June 13th, 2008
PC thugs are the worst kind of bigot.
June 15th, 2008
Business is catering to its core customer base which out numbers any of the not wanted clientele.
Sound business practice.
They have their country clubs to go to.
June 15th, 2008
i think it looks fake as well. i don’t know, i might be wrong.
June 15th, 2008
it actually does kinda look like it may be photoshopped ..
June 16th, 2008
i walk by this sign everyday. it isn’t photoshopped.
June 16th, 2008
Woah, this looks kinda like GNAA’s HQ
June 16th, 2008
Looks like you’ve got all three in the reflection
June 26th, 2008
does speaking in a third person qualify you as an asshole?
” speaking in the third person.”
Oh yeah! But Jimmy’s all out right now. Moving to Manhattan set
Jimmy back a bit.
June 27th, 2008
@dstybin: Yes, it absolutely does.
June 27th, 2008
i want to know where that is so that i can give the person who put that in the window props for standing up for the general population!:)
June 27th, 2008
Lol, that’s the bar on Pike! I walk by that a few times a week
June 27th, 2008
A bar on Pike? Is it downtown or up on capitol hill?
July 10th, 2008
Yes, but what about illiterate assholes?
July 10th, 2008
well, they got me on 2 counts.
July 30th, 2008
Didn’t Kurt Cobain say this once???*He didn’t like those kinds of ppl* AND uhhh i might b wrong but isnt he frm Seattle???
August 20th, 2008
Seems to me you’d have to be at least a little bit of an asshole to put this sign up.
And of course the sign’s useless because the asshole thing to do upon seeing the sign would be to go in anyway, even if you hadn’t been planning to. just to be an asshole.
I would lol.