‚Eat your heart out, snowflakes‘
Are you a conservative who is wary of dining out while wearing your red “Make America Great Again” hat? Do you wish you knew where you could freely sport a “Trump 2020” shirt while running errands?
There’s an app for that.
Earlier this month, an Oklahoma developer launched “63red Safe,” described as “an app to keep conservatives safe as they eat and shop.” The idea, according to founder Scott Wallace, is to “simply get these politics out of restaurants and businesses” — by gauging whether they would be friendly to conservatives.
“Reviews of local restaurant and businesses from a conservative perspective, helping (ensure that) you’re safe when you shop and eat!” reads the app’s description in the Google Play store.
Wallace, who describes himself as a lifelong Republican, said he conceived of the idea in November, when he was out with his youngest child and considered buying “one of those MAGA hats.” Then he wondered whether it would make them targets for harassment, even in Oklahoma City.
Just a few months before, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had been asked to leave the Red Hen, a restaurant in western Virginia, because she worked for President Donald Trump, he noted.
“I thought, ‘Maybe this isn’t the right thing to do,’ ” Wallace told The Washington Post in a phone interview Monday, talking about displaying his support for Trump. “That was very uncomfortable for me. I don’t want to be a nation where putting Che Gueverra on a T-shirt… or wearing a MAGA hat … makes you a target.”
So he and two associates set out to develop something like a Yelp app, one that would evaluate establishments on four questions:
– Does this business serve persons of every political belief?
– Will this business protect its customers if they are attacked for political reasons?
– Does this business allow legal concealed carry under this state’s laws?
– Does this business avoid politics in its ads and social media postings?
“The questions, as you read through them, are designed to be apolitical,” Wallace said.
