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July 3, 2006
One Small Step Toward the Tower of Babel
Moonbats' struggle to impose a balkanized Tower of Babel in place of the American melting pot reached a new extreme of absurdity over the weekend as out-of-town activists descended on Geno's Steaks to force a conflict by ordering in Spanish.
Geno's, a classic South Philly cheesesteak joint, has been in the news ever since the press discovered that owner Joey Vento put a small sign in his window reading, "This is America. When ordering speak English." Philadelphia's Human Relations Commission filed a complaint over the sign, and was backed by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
Yelped North Jersey lawyer Gilberto Garcia, who organized the stunt:
What we seek is to be served when we order in Spanish.
In an apparent attempt to grind it into the gringos' faces that they can invade our country and then demand we speak their language, Garcia timed his antic for the Fourth of July weekend. He brought along a troupe of 30 immigrants in t-shirts printed with "Pan, Bisteck y Queso, Por Favor" (Spanish for "Bread, Steak and Cheese, Please").
One Mexican native came to the counter and instead of making any attempt to be understood, just kept bleating, "Pan, pan" — Spanish for bread. He was given a cheesesteak, as were all the rest of them.
In the past, Geno's employees have good-naturedly helped non–English-speaking customers to order. If the goal was to prove that they don't even have to try to speak English, Garcia has won a victory in the righteous struggle to replace America with some wretched polyglot third-world hellhole. But it's a small victory, as Vento never intended to turn any customers away — and as of yet, his employees aren't forced to speak Spanish back.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 3, 2006 10:23 AM
Comments
I'm so sick if phuqtards like this.
If you don't understand someone, how can you possiblly serve them.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand you. Next, please."
Posted by: Steve at July 3, 2006 11:43 AM
Ummm, if = of.
Sorry for the language, VH. I'm just a tad bit irked by all of this.
Posted by: Steve at July 3, 2006 11:48 AM
phuqtards?? Sorry, is that spanish for something??
Posted by: jael at July 3, 2006 11:55 AM
ph = f, q = k, figure it out.
Posted by: Steve at July 3, 2006 2:00 PM
30 immigrants eh? That's practically free advertising! What a great precedent for shop-owners in America - if you want to increase your revenue from the hispanic market, just insist that your customers speak English, and the moonbats will do the marketing!
Posted by: Aaron G at July 3, 2006 6:39 PM
No shirts
No shoes
No English
No Service?
For most business men it is the color of money that matters. There is no law to feign incomprehension if one does not understand a foreign language. English should be established as the national language of America.
Posted by: Theway2k at July 3, 2006 7:39 PM
Note to Liberal Intellectual Radical Progressives:
When my Grandfather graduated from (public) high-school he had had to pass courses in Latin and one other language besides English (the commonest choice was French). In effect he entered College already speaking three languages. That was before Liberals took over the Public Education system completely (my Grandfather was born in the 19th century, just to make the timing plainer), and eviscerated it. If you had left well enough alone, we would have a much more 'multicultural' populace. Of course we would also have a populace far more likely to be able to detect that you are full of dung.
Posted by: C. S. P. Schofield at July 3, 2006 7:54 PM
What's ironic is that by helping the Spanish-speakers learn how to order in English, Gino's was helping immigrants understand society's dominant language and so allow them to better function in said society. The so-called advocates, however, are enabling and forcing the immigrants to remain ghettoized in an isolated sub-culture in which they are prey for the unscrupolous and at the mercy of those advocates to speak on their behalf. So, tell me again... who's helping the immigrants and who's doing them a disservice? Those who help them learn or those who ensure their ignorance?
Posted by: Dangerous Dan at July 4, 2006 12:59 AM
Man wanted a pan?
I'd smack him in the head with an iron frying pan.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 4, 2006 11:41 AM
Let `em go hungry
Posted by: Bensittin at July 4, 2006 12:16 PM
It's "Geno's"...
Sorry to be a pedant.
Posted by: LC Triplenecksteel at July 5, 2006 12:07 AM
TNS,
Thanks. Now corrected.
Posted by: Van Helsing at July 5, 2006 6:21 AM
So, why are you upset when French refuse to speak to you in English in Paris? Should they hang up we-only -serve-french-speakers signs?
Would Don Vento be happy if someone ordered in Italian?
Posted by: D.J. Templeton at July 5, 2006 2:10 PM
Would Don Vento be happy if someone ordered in Italian?
It's his business, so he can demand that his customers speak Pig Latin if he freakin' wants to.
Posted by: Jonathan at July 5, 2006 10:23 PM
