A civil rights leader went to see 'The Color Purple' with his mother—then AMC ejected him for using his own chair
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The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of “The Color Purple.” The Rev. William Barber II said he needs the chair because he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a disabling bone disease.
Every movie theater I've ever been to has spaces that can accommodate wheelchairs and this guy's chair. Was he busting it out in the aisle? If so, yes, that's against fire code, and it makes sense theater staff asked him to move, because that's what they're trained to do. There's not really enough information here to form an opinion unless you're just into feeling outrage at the headline
He was in the correct section:
But thank you for valiantly rushing to the defense of AMC who had already apologized for what their staff did before your blatant attempt to blame the victim under the guise of "a lack of information."
Sounds like a brother is about to get PAID
Once for the ADA suit and once for the ACLU suit
Thanks for the extra info, though you could've provided it without being a dick
You are in the wrong here. You could have not been an asshole in the first place. The reply was totally justified.
Thank you for providing the info in your reply.
God I just love the notion that if you ask questions and don't immediately jump to the conclusion that the company did something wrong that youre "valiantly rushing to the defense of AMC" and "blatantly attempting to blame the victim".
Lets get the sequence of events in order here, shall we?
Bye now.
Step 3 isn't correct.
Nobody rushed to the defence of the AMC. The only thing they did was look at the issue from a broader point of view and mention they don't have full info on the topic.
Seems like you are projecting, and can't handle criticism at all.
Please, block me too.
Lets all block everyone!
You have quite the stick up your ass lmao
Yeah, with things like this I can't tell if it's lack of training or just a dumb or shitty employee. My guess is that this is not systemic corporate malfeasance.
Come on ankle, losing spontaneous dill -itis?
That sounds made up as fuck.
I wouldn’t have believed him either, I just would have tried to surreptitiously Google it real quick first, you know, so I don’t end up making a huge ass of myself
Come on ankle, losing spontaneous dill -itis?
That sounds made up as fuck.
I wouldn’t have believed him either, I just would have tried to surreptitiously Google it real quick first, you know, so I don’t end up making a huge ass of myself
Who really fucking cares that hard? These guys must be paid a lot to care this hard.