The chain has apologized for the incident with Rev. William Barber II, who has a degenerative bone disease.

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.

  • Dankry@lemmy.worldOP
    2644·
    9 months ago

    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 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?

    1. AMC staff call police on a disabled civil rights leader suffering from a debilitating bone disease for trying to use a special chair he needs during a screening of ‘A Color Purple.’
    2. AMC admits fault and apologizes.
    3. Bozo rushes to the defense of AMC by suggesting the victim is somehow at fault despite point 2.
    4. I provide a second link settling the matter and call them out for engaging in pointless victim blaming.
    5. You butt-in to defend JAQing off and blatant attempts to blame the victim.
    6. I block the both of you.

    Bye now.

    • alienanimals@lemmy.world
      221·
      9 months ago

      Lol the person you were responding to thanked you for correcting them, asked you nicely not to be a dick, and then you double down on being a dick.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      213·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      131·
      9 months ago

      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

      Block me too. That’s no where near

      Bozo rushes to the defense of AMC by suggesting the victim is somehow at fault despite point 2.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nl
      1·
      9 months ago

      Lets get the sequence of events in order here, shall we?

      Yes, let’s do that.

      AMC admits fault, and apologizes

      There is no universe in which a savvy business doubles down on blaming a disabled person. Businesses admit fault when they’ve done nothing wrong all the time. It’s nothing but optics.

      Bozo rushes to the defense of AMC by implying the victim is at fault despite point 2.

      That didn’t happen. They asked questions and posited a potential situation that may have taken place.

      I provide a second link and call them out for their victim blaming.

      Is this how you get your rocks off? By just fabricating scenarios that didn’t happen and then hurling deeply offensive accusations at the people who didn’t make them?

      I block the both of you.

      Fail.