Leesburg, VA yarn shop owner receives startling anti-election email

[ehrnst]

A Leesburg small business owner found a startling surprise sitting in her inbox this morning.

“Are you an anti-election establishment?” the subject line of an email noted. “We are compiling a list of local Leesburg businesses that are openly hostile to customers who voted for Donald Trump. Before we publish, we'd like to give the opportunity to refute tips we've received ... Could you please comment? If we hear nothing, we will assume these comments are legitimate and will publish your information in an upcoming guide."

Nicole Morgenthau, the owner of Finch Knitting + Sewing Studio and receiver of the email, was jarred.

“My immediate reaction was a little bit of fear,” Morgenthau told the Times-Mirror today. “Immediately I thought, 'Oh my gosh, what's going to happen?' The business is like my fourth child.”

Morgenthau responded to the provided name and email address the only way she knew how. She wrote:

“We are not and never have been hostile toward any human being who wishes to step foot in the front door of Finch. As a matter of fact, the very groundwork of Finch has always been to be a place of inclusiveness. We acknowledge and embrace that we have customers who come from a wide variety of political, racial, and religious backgrounds. Just as this diversity of beliefs occurs in many of our own families, the Finch family is a safe haven, a neutral space where any and all beliefs are sacred and anybody should feel welcome. All belong here.

My favorite thing about Finch is that when I walk through the doors and see your pretty faces, we meet on common ground. We rise above all the anxiety of the day to focus on something that connects us rather than what divides us. Just remember, you belong here.

All my love, Nicole"

Morgenthau said Finch was listed in various forums as supporter of last weekend's Women's March on Washington and "the movement," but she stressed she would never be hostile to anyone of any political stripe who walks through her doors.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/leesburg_woman_and_business_owner_receives_startling_anti_election_email

[C_U_L8R]

1. How Hitleresque.

Shine a bright light on these nazi shitheads

[Chevy]

2. Germany 1933 n/t

[mercuryblues]

3. They're making lists

[Angry Dragon]

4. Are the Brown Shirts far behind??

[madaboutharry]

5. Trump will start an investigation to determine

how much pink yarn is being sold in American knitting shops.

[get the red out]

9. I thought that would have been addressed

I figured that was what the email was about initially, maybe she had received a shipment of pink yarn before the women's march or something.

[louis-t]

6. "Ve haf vays to make you talk!"

Kristalnacht, round 2, is a-coming.

[tazkcmo]

7. This "guide"

If published, The Guide would just serve the majority of sane, inclusive Americans as a listing of desirable businesses to spend our money at. It would also serve through omission as a list of places not to frequent.

Go for it. Publish it. In fact, please publish a "guide" of establishments whose ownership are Shit Gibbon fans. Please.

[KittyWampus]

17. That guide is essentially putting a gun target on anti-Trump resistors.

Bannon is INTENTIONALLY throwing red meat to his white supremacist base.

[tazkcmo]

18. Of Course

But, just like everything else these twits do, it'll backfire and blow up in their faces. Bannon and his ilk work best in the dark of anonymity and shadows of irrelevancy with the most complicated thing they did was organize little "rallies" in rural towns. They're in so far over their heads and are breaking everything they touch while on an international stage with their ineptness on full display.

They really are their own worse enemies.

[CurtEastPoint]

8. What is the source of this? On edit..found it.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/leesburg_woman_and_business_owner_receives_startling_anti_election_email432

[ehrnst]

10. Thanks - forgot it. Added to the OP. (nt)

[Turbineguy]

11. They have their answer

and they won't like it.

If I were her, I'd check my insurance coverage.

[gratuitous]

12. Are you now, or have you ever been . . . ?

I wonder who's sending out these e-mails? During the bad old days of the blacklist in the movie and television industries, even a petty little tyrant like Lawrence A. Johnson, who owned six supermarkets in central New York state, could impugn the reputation of a person. The rumors and the whispers could never quite be traced back to a source, but they were often enough to stain a person, which could only be removed by the word of a greater authority (who was usually too chicken to stick his neck out) or by a craven appearance before the House Unamerican Activities Committee.

Apparently, there's still a nostalgic sentiment for those times in some quarters of the United States, when neighbor informed on neighbor, and distrust was the byword of the day. Some people benefited handsomely from the suspicion and toxic atmosphere; some even went on to be President of the United States (Ronald Reagan) or to mentor future Presidents (Roy Cohn).

[blm]

13. Nazi stormtroopers moved to Va, recently, following Richard Spencer to carry out Bannon's agenda

of intimidation.

[cyclonefence]

14. those pink hats are really getting to them!

They're trying to intimidate yarn shops! Knit away, brothers and sisters, knit away!

[mainer]

15. In contrast, there's the hateful yarn store owner who bans Women's March supporters

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028541414

This tale of two yarn stores demonstrates the difference between Trump supporters and everyone else.

[Cracklin Charlie]

16. Yarn shop owners?

Wow

There will no one left unscathed.

[alarimer]

19. Well that letter will put her on the Trump-ites hit list for sure.

Good for her! (I meant her response, not the initial email, in case it wasn't clear).

[Kingofalldems]

20. Trump's yeoman in action.

Passive aggressive.

[Retrograde]

21. "Nice store you have here"

"Sure be a shame if anything would happen to it". Another form of shakedown - but the traditonal Mob (AFAIK) didn't care about your politics as long as they got their cut.