Blouberg restaurant accused of racism after rejecting bookings

Cray

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Cray, you're projecting. Just because a country has racists it doesn't mean every individual is racist. You're trying to insinuate the restaurant has to be racist because there are racists in the country. That is a logical fallacy.
You accuse me of projecting, while projecting on to me something I never once said, please quote my post where I insinuated that every individual is racist and please quote the post where I said that the restaurant was definitely racist?

All I stated is that in a country with a lot of racists, racist behavior is a possibility and it might be worth investigating, never made any claims as to the truth of the original claim.
 

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Projection of a generalisation onto a specific being proof of the generalisation happening at the specific.
Perhaps read what I said again slowly....

So you admit that this country is overflowing with racists but the idea of a restaurant staffed by people who might be racist is beyond you?
 

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Only one area voted overwhelmingly no:

South Africans on both sides of the racial and political divides were stunned last night by the size of the 'yes' victory in the country's referendum, which seemed set to propel it into an early power-sharing administration.

Final figures showed there had been a 68.6 per cent 'yes' - 1,924,186 votes against 875,619 - in an 85.08 per cent turnout of the white electorate. Analysts estimated that 62 per cent of Afrikaners participating voted 'yes', and 79 per cent of English-speakers.

Only one out of 15 regions recorded a majority 'no' vote - Pietersburg in the strongly conservative northern Transvaal - and even there it was only by 49,820 votes to 37,612.

Pretoria, the administrative capital which has for so long symbolised Afrikanerdom, produced a 57 per cent 'yes'. In the legislative capital, Cape Town, 85 per cent voted 'yes' and in the judicial capital of Bloemfontein 58.5 per cent.

Thanks for the history lesson mate, I never stated that the majority of white people are racist, in fact I would say the opposite is true but there are still lots of people who think it was a mistake to give black people the vote in 1994, there are even a few on this forum.
 

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Are you honestly saying you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between an English/Afrikaans surname versus a Zulu/Xhosa or Sotho surname?

And then let's talk about accents, unless you went to Hilton or Bishops on a scholarship, your accent gives your skin colour away..
When you phone you don’t state your name you ask for a booking. If they have space they ask for your name number and the number of people.
 

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Unless somebody shows up and trashes the place.
So what has more weight perception or truth and why somebody's livelihood depend on perception.
Look I agree, but the base assumption from everyone here is that this restaurant absolutely isn't racist. What if the opposite is true, and this event happened like the accuser made out, what action should this person have taken?
 

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When you phone you don’t state your name you ask for a booking. If they have space they ask for your name number and the number of people.
Am not sure about you, but when someone I don't know phones me, it's usually pretty easy to identify their mother tongue from their accent and in most cases that corresponds to race.
 

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But gay people are constantly told on this very forum to take their business elsewhere. Remember the wedding venue and cake shop episodes?

So what's the problem now?
 

Milano

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The professional reviewers have arrived:


Kagiso arrives to the party rating the restaurant 1-star with one word, 'racist'.

Kagiso has given 8 reviews in the user's review history. Every single one of the reviews is 1 star.

Kagiso is clearly an extremely discerning patron who is not often pleased :ROFL:

He once found a business where people were speaking Afrikaans. You guessed it 1 star!
 

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The professional reviewers have arrived:


Kagiso arrives to the party rating the restaurant 1-star with one word, 'racist'.

Kagiso has given 8 reviews in the user's review history. Every single one of the reviews is 1 star.

Kagiso is clearly an extremely discerning patron who is not often pleased :ROFL:

He once found a business where people were speaking Afrikaans. You guessed it 1 star!
Shame. Poor racist Kagiso. He hates white people. Especially Afrikaans speaking ones.

I think Kagiso needs to open his own restaurant.
 

TheMightyQuinn

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The professional reviewers have arrived:


Kagiso arrives to the party rating the restaurant 1-star with one word, 'racist'.

Kagiso has given 8 reviews in the user's review history. Every single one of the reviews is 1 star.

Kagiso is clearly an extremely discerning patron who is not often pleased :ROFL:

He once found a business where people were speaking Afrikaans. You guessed it 1 star!
Kagiso is racist.
 

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General manager of Blowfish, Marc Scheidel, said Monday was their busiest day since March last year when the first lockdown started and denied discriminating against anyone.

He said they dealt with calls, emails, WhatsApp messages and social media bookings the entire day.

“Since there was such high demand, the situation was extremely fluid and bookings were received and cancelled the entire day. The instant a booking was cancelled, it was filled again.

“When Vuyokazi’s first email was received, we were in fact fully booked at that time. Once the second enquiry (from Sarah) came in, a table had opened up and we responded accordingly,” he said.
Don't come here with your colonial logic and facts...the ONLY explanation is racism.
 

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Okay, am curious, do you honestly think that there are no racists in this country as of today?

This forum would suggest otherwise. Lots of racists on here.

This story admittedly sounds very fishy, why would anyone show clients away in this crappy times? It doesn't make any sense. I'd need to see some solid evidence to believe this.
 

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This forum would suggest otherwise. Lots of racists on here.

This story admittedly sounds very fishy, why would anyone show clients away in this crappy times? It doesn't make any sense. I'd need to see some solid evidence to believe this.
@Cray, that is the signal that you are coming across as unhinged.
 

TheMightyQuinn

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Absolutely. I would go further and say that blacks are drumming up these stories to justify imminent genocide. /s
This reverse sarcasm bullshit that you are doing, is tedious.

It just emphasizes how insecure you born-frees are when virtue signalling in general.

Way, way out of your depth...
 
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