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Open Letter To Midtown Global Market

To: Midtown Global Market
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: Cancel This

In response to the “revelation” that one of the Holy Land Deli’s employees – the daughter of the owner, himself an immigrant and inspirational story – had some “racist” social media in her past (as in, years ago, while a teenger) you canceled the Holy Land’s lease in your Midtown Marketplace building, at Lake and Chicago, effective immediately

I’m going to guess if you went through the social media feeds of every single employee in your building who grew up in the era of South Park and Idiocracy, you’ll fine something regrettable.,

Speaking of regrets? While I’ve been a fan and customer of Midtown Market ever since it opened, I will never spend another dime there as long as you follow through on this absurd, selective, and by all appearances grudge-driven “cancellation” of the Holy Land space.

I urge you to reconsider forthwith. This is the lowest form of cultural cowardice, I won’t reward it with my time or money, and I’ll be urging everyone I know to do the same when they are able to get out and start spending money again.

M Berg
The Midway

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8 responses to “Open Letter To Midtown Global Market”

  1. This chopper for official use only Avatar
    This chopper for official use only

    So there’s an inherent conduct unbecoming clause in rental leases? And it is retroactive back to childhood? Who knew?

    This might be something the beleaguered landlords of Minneapolis find useful in getting problem tennents out quickly since (as I remember all too well) neither non-payment, destruction of property nor criminal activity allow for summary eviction in MN.

    That being said, I wouldn’t squirt too many tears for the CEO of Holy Land, Mitch. He immediately fired and publicly dragged his own daughter, so he’s ok with it.

  2. This chopper for official use only Avatar
    This chopper for official use only

    In the current year, you can post pictures of yourself gleefully supporting leftist domestic terrorists and do extremely well in politics in Minnesota.

    But if you’ve made racially disparaging remarks on the interwebs as a kid, you’re through forever.

  3. This chopper for official use only Avatar
    This chopper for official use only

    Could it be that the free market will accomplish the seperation America so desperately needs without the need for bloodshed?

    Real Americans are forgiving people. We especially understand that kids should be given wide leeway as they grow, surrounded by the debauchery leftists sew into the popular culture.

    We don’t hold “struggle sessions”.

    Folks who are rejected from leftist dominated states are always welcomed by real Americans as long as they express a love of traditional American values, and respect for Western culture.

  4. This chopper for official use only Avatar
    This chopper for official use only

    For several years, Minnesota’s Antifa General was a member in good standing of the Nation of Islam, which by anyone’s measure is a hotbed of virulent racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism.

    Oh sure, that was years ago and he says he no longer subscribes to the Nation’s dogma (although there are more recent reports of him palling around Farakhan while he was in the US House dailycaller[dot]com/2018/02/13/keith-ellison-louis-farrakhan-nation-of-islam/)

    How is it he has not been made to pay for his actions?

  5. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Very soon you will run out of places to patronize due to their political/racial/cowardice motivations. Then you will have to move to the country, raise or forage or stalk your own food and material for clothing – with bow and arrow or sling since you are deathly afraid of things that go boom I’m told. Hey, you’ll be living in the environazi utopia! ALL problems solved.

  6. Ian Avatar
    Ian

    As a Gen X-er, my generation is the last one to remember a time when we didn’t have the ability to capture our every thought on social media, and that’s a good thing: People, especially young people, say stupid things. Ours was a time of forgive and more importantly, forget. Now, there’s a record of every offensive thing you might’ve ever felt the need to share with the world, at an age where most can’t comprehend the consequences. And you can be destroyed for wrong-think. And if you think you can just post under pseudonyms, there’s always a bully in the guise of journalism (see CNN) that will helpfully unmask you.

  7. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Ian,
    You are correct. I was threatened with that on another platform, by an angry black man that took my posting of the original ME’s autopsy results, as racist. Even though I prefaced it with my disgust and anger over Chauvin’s actions. I was able to engage him in a dialog and in his first response, he pointed out that I was a baby boomer and therefore, racism was ingrained in me, yadda, yadda. But I think that things are OK, because we kind of bonded as veterans.

  8. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    I spent an afternoon at the old Sears store last summer. Interesting place, but not worth the trip from Chisago City to Uptown just to have an authentic street taco. Plus the place was surrounded by vibrant panhandlers.

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