Many readers would have seen the viral video of a man in a restaurant who raged against employees who were speaking Spanish and “threatened to report the Spanish speaking workers to immigration authorities, saying he assumed they were probably undocumented. He also complained that they were on welfare and his tax dollars are supporting them.”
Who this this bigot in Midtown Manhattan? What's his name?
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Here he is harassing & insulting two women for speaking Spanish…TO EACH OTHER in the middle of Manhattan.
Trump has empowered ugly white people like this to say whatever they feel like saying. pic.twitter.com/WbHlet6H7c
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) May 16, 2018
Journalists easily tracked him down and found that he is Aaron Schlossberg, a lawyer and a fervent Trump supporter, and that his behavior did not surprise many of his former classmates in college and law school. Shaun King reports that “Several Muslim leaders across the city told me that he has randomly stalked and harassed them over the past few years and they just didn’t know who he was.”
Another reporter, the lead editor at A Plus, says he recognized the man from a video last year. Based on that video, Isaac Saul says the same man was screaming at Jews saying they weren’t Jewish. He describes him as “a die hard Trumper.”
I wouldn’t soon forget him. Had that crazy look in his eyes. Was a die hard Trumper and pretty unreasonably upset there were Jews supporting Palestine around.
More videos of Schlossberg have surfaced and he is finding out that his behavior hasn’t endeared him to the people at his workplace.
What I would like to see with some of these xenophobes is for someone to ask them to show papers proving that they have documents proving that they are in the country legally. They seem to feel that since they are white, their right should be taken for granted when that need not be the case. It would be nice to see their reaction when challenged to prove their citizenship.
Especially if they were asked to provide the three peices of evidence for every year back to 1973 like the Windrush generation were being asked to provide to the Home Office in the UK.
Words I never thought I’d write…
Good job, New York Post.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/17/racist-lawyer-runs-scared-from-cameras-outside-home/
Thanks for this, Mano! I was considering writing about it myself, now I don’t have to. I will, however, add something that struck me as important: he advertises himself as a member of the NY State Bar, but he is not, in fact, a member of the bar. It is not yet clear to me if he is or isn’t licensed to practice law in NY, but it’s certainly possible that either his license has lapsed or he never had one (probably relying instead on an out-of-state license).
It is common to go to law school in a state other than where you intend to practice. It is not common to practice in a particular state without a license in that state. This can be HUUUUGE trouble, and even the simpler, more innocent mistake of advertising yourself as a bar member without being a bar member is fairly serious. It says even more about the state of this man’s ethics.
New Yorkers respond to lawyer’s racist rant with ‘Latin party’ outside his house :
to Crip Dyke @ 3,
If I read the reports correctly, he claimed to be a member of the NY Bar Association, a voluntary group, while not being a member of it. I gather this is different than the Bar itself.
(A slightly-edited crosspost from PZ ‘s current Political Madness All the Time thread.)
Apparently that possibly-not-really-a-lawyer lawyer eejit isn’t. Isn’t what isn’t clear. He just isn’t, ‘I am not a racist,’ says lawyer behind racist New York cafe rant:
NYC is very diverse but I don’t believe this loon for a second — and neither do the commentators at the cited not-pology (link embedded in above excerpt). Nor does the Grauniad:
He isn’t. Isn’t what? At the least, he isn’t believed.
(I now see Mano has just put up a typically-thoughtful post, If this is not who you are, then how could this happen?, on this same not-pology.)