In the latest example of our great Ouroboros Internet hate machine creating a Mount Vesuvius out of a mole hill, the manager of the Walmart in Medina has been receiving death threats and demands for her to be fired for the past few days, according to a WEWS report.
Why?
Here’s how it goes: Some outrage-bent Walmart patron noticed retired Marine John Harkness gathering Toys for Tots donations outside the store. She bought him a coffee (from Subway, apparently) and learned that the manager had barred him from soliciting inside the building. Harkness was mostly fine with it, though, and continued the holiday charity work he’s been doing for the past 14 years. (“Why not? This is for the kids. It’s not about us,” Harkness told WEWS.)
Then the image — seen here — popped up on Facebook, and the world set to work. The incredible design work features the store manager’s name, photo and work phone number. It has been shared more than 30,000 times, mostly with compelling commentary like “This woman should be slapped…” and “disgusting. it’s thanks to him that this ignorant bitch can even OWN a store.” and “Commie bitch needs to go….”
Walmart’s corporate policy doesn’t allow any solicitation inside stores. The general narrative here is that a former store manager in Medina was open to the Harknesses soliciting inside; the new and current manager is sticking with corporate policy.
For that, she’s on the wrong end of a cultural force that feels it’s OK to casually publish violent rhetoric against suburban Walmart managers.
“I don’t feel that’s necessary. I think that’s totally out of line. I would like them to really stop harassing the family,” Lynn Harkness, John’s wife, told WEWS.
This article appears in Nov 25 – Dec 1, 2015.
90% of Scene’s liberal causes/issues are from the “Internet Outrage Machine.”
I do feel the policy of Walmart should have been adjust for the Veteran Solider. I should use some common sense in some case.
You always have to stand outside at Walmart. It’s always been that way, so don’t bother with that vile institution.
Robin Wright was the miserable cunt that was in charge of the Steelyard Commons Walmart, voted the Worst Walmart in America because of her incompetency, so her doing this does not surprise me! Walmart should have fired her not sent her to a suburban store, now look what she does!
Facebook is a tool of the Devil…and it’s become just another way for the rabid right-wingnut flag-waving assholes to foam at the mouth from behind a keyboard, make death threats, and call for the asses of anyone who seems to be disrespecting our “hee-rows.”
You can be assured that I absolutely HATE union-busting slave-driving China Mart, and do not set foot on its parking lots or its stores, but I dislike these rah-rah “hee-row worshippers” just as much.
Anything for the twoops, right, jerkoffs? Including death threats, apparently.
And now this bullshit non-story has, predictably, gone national. Another black eye for Ahia, where anyplace south of 480 is North Missitucky. Does anyone else ever wonder why this sort of garbage always happens RIGHT AROUND HERE?
The more ridiculous an event, the more likely it has an Ohio dateline preceding it. Jeebus Chrysler.
Fuck Facebook.
Chuckles the Clown
Chuckles the clown is surely someone who needs to leave the USA. He has no respect for anyone or anything . He was just able to use one if the freedoms the “twoops” fought and died for, the freedom of speech, if that’s what you would call his vulgar commentary ! Facebook is not the tool of the devil, you are ! When you wake up tomorrow look out your window and see if there’s a group ready to kill you and be thankful for those twoops that there’s not !! Jerk !!!!!!!!
Read it again, asshole. It’s not about the “twoops”…it’s directed at all the star-spangled sheeple…those Trump-loving, flag-waving, country-music-braying, gun-toting, trailer-trash rah-rahs…always so quick to scream “USA-USA-USA” at anything and anyone they don’t like, and to threaten them from behind their keyboard. And to call them “morans” as well. You sound exactly like one of ’em.
“Look out your window and see if there’s a group ready to kill you”…so now you’re making death threats at me, too? Seriously? Bring it on, you POS, you’ll never get off my porch.
Chuckles the Clown
Chuckles speaks the truth.
Oh but if this were Christians refusing to bake a cake for queers and lesbians, you liberal hypocrites would be ALL OVER the place, making threats, and seeing to it that the store was shut down and put out of business, and then see to it that the owner’s personal lives were destroyed! So screw you, liberal hypocrites! The tables are turning and you don’t like it, a taste of your own medicine, do you? Thank you clevescene and eric sandy for posting this story! Because you’re giving it even more publicity now, and more people are getting on the bandwagon! We WILL have this woman fired from her job and her life ruined, thanks in part to you, when it’s all said and done! Same way you go after those who YOU disagree with! Fair is fair, right? So thank you for helping us to accomplish that goal by soreading the word. And to think, if she had just “done the right thing” all this would never have taken place. Bet she wouldn’t never dared make a representative collecting items for a local mosques stand outside….. Posting your story and this page on my Facebook. .so even more can experience your acerbic hypocrisy! Oh, almost forgot, Have a nice day!