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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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off topic forum
May 14th, 2008

Thats hate speech and I wont stand for it.

Anthony
May 14th, 2008

Nice!

Polaris Kyo
May 16th, 2008

Awesome!

BJG
May 19th, 2008

haha that probably saves them a lot of trouble of kicking people out…

jacob
May 20th, 2008

Where in Seattle is this?

Mike Richard
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.

foldered
May 21st, 2008

Definitely didn’t see this when I was in Seattle last summer!
Wish I had.

dave
June 5th, 2008

Are bigots who only hate assholes still bigots?

Mike Richard
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!

dave
June 5th, 2008

So, it’s OK for me to be a bigot as long as I’m the right kind of bigot? :-)

mightor
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

jacob
June 10th, 2008

Hm. I’ve definitely never seen this before. Judging by the background, it might be on capitol hill, or maybe georgetown.

WWN
June 13th, 2008

PC thugs are the worst kind of bigot.

Joe
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.

tara
June 15th, 2008

i think it looks fake as well. i don’t know, i might be wrong.

boritortlers
June 15th, 2008

it actually does kinda look like it may be photoshopped ..

wow
June 16th, 2008

i walk by this sign everyday. it isn’t photoshopped.

Kristian Myhre
June 16th, 2008

Woah, this looks kinda like GNAA’s HQ

morphmonstr
June 16th, 2008

Looks like you’ve got all three in the reflection

dstybin
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.

Mike Richard
June 27th, 2008

@dstybin: Yes, it absolutely does.

kelly
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!:)

Andy
June 27th, 2008

Lol, that’s the bar on Pike! I walk by that a few times a week

jacob
June 27th, 2008

A bar on Pike? Is it downtown or up on capitol hill?

Dustin
July 10th, 2008

Yes, but what about illiterate assholes?

Shandooga
July 10th, 2008

well, they got me on 2 counts.

wataheck
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???

Lyric
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.





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