Brandon Straka, a gay hairdresser and the founder of the "Walk Away" campaign using the viral hashtag #WalkAway, had spent over an hour on Thursday carefully choosing equipment at electronics superstore Adorama in Manhattan following a week of media appearances, reports the Epoch Times.
After an employee sent Straka to a different department to buy a microphone, a customer in front of him exclaimed "I saw you on Tucker!" - before asking for a picture with the "Walk Away" founder.
The exchange was overheard by a store employee, who then refused to sell him the mic.
"He stared at me with this kind of dead-pan expression," Straka told The Epoch Times. "And he said: Are you planning to use this equipment for alt-right purposes?'"A shocked Straka reeled from what he says was his first experience of a public shunning over his political views - though he said that friends had done so in private.
As Straka struggled to comprehend what was happening, the clerk, whom Straka asked not be named, said: "I'm sorry I just don't feel comfortable selling to you. I can't sell to you." -Epoch Times
"It kind of took my breath away," he said. "I said to him, 'Listen, if you can't sell to me, that's fine, but, you know, person to person, I'd like to talk to you, because I don't think you know what Walk Away is about. And he said, 'Well, you know, I'm done. I'm not comfortable selling to you. You're welcome to talk to someone else in the store but I'm not going to sell to you.'"
Beside himself after the experience, Straka says he went downstairs, composed himself, and asked another clerk to help him - only to be referred to the bigoted employee. Eventually, he got his mic.
Straka saw how baffled the go-between salesman looked. "He was like, 'You're not?' And he repeated: 'I'm not selling to him.'"Straka then expressed concern over being "doxxed" by the angry employee since Adorama collects so much personal information.
The other salesman came over to Straka and said, "Let's go back upstairs." Straka waited for about 20 minutes, and this time the salesman returned with the microphone and Straka was able to pay and leave.
Walking out of the store, he said: "I was shaking. I was hurt. I had this huge adrenaline rush. I felt embarrassed and I also felt nervous." -Epoch Times
"At every station of the store, I'd given them my personal information. What if this kid decides to go into the computer and dox [to publish private information, as in a phone number or address] me?"
"I am not a guy who has a lot of money. I can't have people going to my apartment and harassing me."
"My instinct is telling me to practice compassion and forgiveness here. I don't want to see this guy getting fired. I don't want anything bad to happen to him. I don't want people harassing him."
Adorama issued a statement in response to the incident over Twitter:
"The Adorama Management Team deeply regrets the incident involving an employee in our store. Please know this is not who we are, and does not reflect the position of our owners or other staff members. This is being taken seriously and is being addressed with the highest priority."
Straka founded the #WalkAway campaign in late May, creating a Facebook page and posting a video explaining his views.
It is my sincere hope that you will join me in this campaign and that we may start a movement in this country-which not only encourages others to walk away from the divisive left, but also takes back the narrative from the liberal media about what it means to be a conservative in America. It is up to all of us to make our voices heard and reclaim the truth.Watch below:
The Democratic Party has taken for granted that it owns racial, sexual, and religious minorities in America. It has encouraged groupthink, hypocrisy, division, stereotyping, resentment, and the acceptance of victimhood mentality. And all the while, they have discouraged minorities from having independent thought, open dialogue, measured and informed opinion, and a motivation to succeed.
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You think I should put my paper up on the net behind a pay wall? I won't get too many readers that way, Sweetie. I know your papers are over half a million, I know, but , Yes that was a great tv show last night on aliens, wasn't it. Maybe I will lied down for a while.
Paper without paywall.
Since there is no media in Syria, and Syria has been bombed so extensively that the evidence of gross war is all around, Syrians that are escapees from the war are the truest believers. Those labeled so in Europe live in such degraded conditions, open tent camps and pit latrines, the fable of their 'better life' is built NOT around the precarious existence in Europe but the believed horrific conditions in Syria.
The professionals are hand selected by the European community for 'employment' in the European community, and believing their homeland uninhabitable by war as this is the continuing spiel from the propaganda machine, succumb to any job, any criteria to allow them to work in Europe. Doctors become ambulance drivers, physicists become cooks, educators become street sweepers.
Is this not exactly how China disposed of an entire generation called the Red Guard. Is this not how the economic world fights its wars?
We are misdirected endlessly as to the violence inside Syria while the calculated violence against family stability is fought across the economic wasteland of Europe. Were the end goal of this endless war to be the destruction of family stability and the erasure of the entire professional class to be the point, it could not have been better planned. This is skimming the cream and the result is a country regressed in capability, intelligence, scientific attainment, and tech advancement which was the goal. It is the entire destruction of the fabric of a country, their beliefs, their choices, their generational wealth. in the end we will have removed the heart of a country.