New app helps people who feel they are the victims of anti-Maga sentiment to find restaurants they feel comfortable in

Last week, a man named Dion Cini was refused service at a bar in New York City. He claims he had done nothing wrong and was discriminated against.

A video of the incident confirms that Cini doesn’t appear overly inebriated or obviously violating any other rules of decorum at Jake’s Dilemma; instead he was kicked out for what he was wearing: a Maga hat.

The owners of the bar have since apologized and said all are welcome there, and that the bartender in question has been disciplined, but the entire situation might have been avoided had a new app called 63red Safe been up and running a bit earlier.

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The app, which you might think of as would-be Yelp for Trump supporters, was launched in early March by a man named Scott Wallace, who hopes to help people like Cini to avoid taking a wrong turn into a business where they don’t take too kindly to people with differing political beliefs. It’s sort of a Green Book for white people.

Had he been able to log on to 63red Safe himself, someone like Greg Piatek, who was similarly kicked out of a New York City bar for his own fashion statement last year, might have known to keep on moving to find a place where he would be judged not by the color of his hat.

“I believe that between now and 2020, we’re going to see the rise of the socialist goon squad. I think antifa was nothing compared between now and what’s coming in 2020. And I’m deeply concerned,” Wallace told the Daily Beast.

Wallace and other Trump loyalists may be right to be worried. In the past year alone, members of the Trump administration and other political allies including Sarah Sanders, Kirstjen Nielsen, Ted Cruz and others have been chased out of restaurants by guests and staff alike.

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More recently, a woman in Austin, Texas, claims she was “viciously attacked by an entire bar of people, men and women included, for wearing a Maga hat.” Not long before that, a woman in Massachusetts was caught on video swiping the Maga hat off a man who was eating in a Mexican restaurant. The woman in question was living in the United States without legal documentation and has now been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). It was unclear what became of the man’s red hat.

The list goes on and on. It’s just not safe any more to identify as a supporter of the president who regularly refers to asylum-seeking migrants as an infestation of vermin, attempted to prevent people from Muslim countries from travelling to the US, called neo-Nazis “very fine people” and said Mexicans are rapists.

“It’s just gone too far,” a man named Terry Price from Bowling Green, Kentucky, told Newsweek recently. “Republicans, conservatives and Christians need to stand up and take action against this kind of hate.”

Over the past decade many on the right, including Trump supporters, have popularised a term for the type of person who goes out of their way to take umbrage at every perceived slight and to inflate the mildest of microaggressions into much more than they were: a snowflake.

A snowflake, as the thinking used to go way back when, was a type of person who would fold under the slightest pressure, who couldn’t stand up for themselves, and who, more than anything else, used their identity as a crutch. They would instantly retreat to their safe spaces so they could remain sequestered inside their ideological bubbles, never having to deal with anyone who doesn’t think exactly like them.

In an unrelated story, the FBI reported that hate crimes in America increased for the third straight year in 2017 to more than 7,100, including almost 8,500 victims. Almost 60% of the attacks were based on race or ethnicity, 20% on religion and 16% for sexual orientation. They did not track the number of hat-based crimes.