If a beer had been thrown on whiteboy seems there would have been some beer on him...

So help us out;
'throwing beer' on a white guy is racism;
throwing food at a Trump administration official is Heroism?
Someone needs to post the rules...

Pick your battles - this should have been avoided. It was wrong to have sat there.

Hats are the universal symbol of dibs. There are no heroes here.

@3

Dibs were given to the seat with the hat. If you want it two seats he should have lain a jacket across the armrest. In any event, since they were only a couple, it seems especially dickish to insist that the hat on one seat reserved all three seats.

It seems most dickish for the guy who got kicked out to blame racism because he got in an argument over a movie seat. Best part is both guys were white...Damn there I go playin' the race card.

big news!!

@5 actually it was a self identified mixed race person and a white guy. Not sure why we keep calling the alleged beer thrower as white when the article says he said he’s mixed race.

Race Matters?

What's race got to do with this story?

How is this even a story? Maybe because I chose to ride a bike I am just used to getting int arguments with crazies all the time. But Portland needs to get their shit together. Some people are jerks, how is that the businesses problem?

Yeah, outrage journalism!

No actual journalism, all outrage!

Let's take a vote - has The Stranger jumped the shark here? Or did that happen already and I missed it?

A more optimistic view might hold that since a news outlet is tasked with relaying events worthy of attention, having to scrape the barrel here in terms of outrage shows how far we've come. If spats like this, from out of state no less, make the local news - I'd say that's progress, not regress. If the world were truly going to hell in a racist handbasket, news outlets wouldn't have to try so damn hard to find articles to print.

Some white people are jerks. Some black people are jerks. Some mixed race people are jerks. Don't get into fights with jerks if you can avoid it, and don't call racism every time a jerk does a jerk thing.

Good lord. This is why I hate working with the public. I would have told them to all leave so that the adults could watch the movie in peace.

And tattling to twitter? Who raised these people?

"It's like being spit on".

Yeah, just like the minor with a MAGA hat who got assaulted.

By the leftie logic applied to the MAGA hat kid, I will apply the same logic to the this incident; the couple was asking for it. They knew the hat was claiming the seats but took it anyway. The guy who threw the beer was just defending himself because the couple who sat was provoking and agitating.

How does your logic work out for you in this incident, lefties? Not so fair now is it? Well what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Either all of it is okay. Or none of it is okay.

Society really is regressing into polarized silos. So sad. If only we could sing with Joan Baez, hold candles in the rain, and cry, .... together!

How about a.third party witness, where they at? One would imagine that throwing a beer would be noticed by other patrons.

By the by, Young is a committed activist.

This has to do with race?

Getting the sense it has to do with two couples bitching at one another, and making allegations. This has ZERO to do with race you fucking race-baiting hacks.

The Stranger has been filled with lowest common denominator storytellers for a while now. It's fucking sad to see.

The best part of shit pieces like this is that it's waking more people of everyday to unethical hack 'news' outlets. The Stranger isn't even an opinion paper anymore.

And why exactly would a mixed race racist be at a movie by, for, and about black people?

A lot of people think of Portland as a hipster paradise of liberal, tolerant, outspoken hippies. It is not.

As a guy who was in an interracial relationship in Portland, let me tell you first hand: Its a fucking nightmare to be black in that city. I have watched people literally RUN across the street when seeing me walking down Hawthorne or Powell or downtown. If I had a quarter for ever Portlander who clenched her purse when seeing me (in front of my white SO, who looked on horrified), checked their wallet after passing me, or would B line to me in a store or bar and ask "Hey I think I left my wallet/phone/otherexpensiveitem around here, have YOU seen it anywhere me, not anyone else in the area...me first. I frequently shit on the faux racial tolerance of Seattle and its institutional racism, but Portland takes that cake, smashes it against the wall, carves it back out with the wall plaster and wood boards and lights it on fire. It is not a racially tolerant city. Even when you start to become friends with some people, they're usually only 3 drinks away from using the N word in some passionate explanation of why "some black people" are different than "other n-words". Its bad.

This story neither surprises me nor does it shock me.

@25 Maybe you're just an asshole?

@26 Typically when I hear someone go off about how they are treated like shit everywhere they go, I'm skeptical. Either they are NOT treated like shit everywhere they go, or they are treated like shit everywhere they go because they are an asshole.

If you read the post from the person claiming a racial attack, it's clear they racialized the conflict with this idea of hidden, or some mysterious racism.

And to act like they were just sitting around minding their own business, and out of nowhere they were attacked is nonsense. It's rare that happens. What usually happens is people get into an argument, people start talking shit to one another, then next thing you know you have two sides that are hell bent on casting a bad light on their opponent.

I suspect the person they were arguing with, if they got to speak on the issue, would likely be much more believable.

Both are true: A - horrible blatant racism (@25), and B - insidious race-card playing (@24 and @22).

B is not as damaging to our society, but unless it's dealt with we can't make progress on combatting A.

Maybe instead of running articles like this, The Stranger should publish articles like "How To Call Out a POC on their Dysfunctional/Shitty Behavior without Being Called a Racist". Put Charles Mudede on that one.

STBY is by a black man, featuring black people, but is clearly for white people.

Yeah, I'm struggling to understand why a racist, i.e. someone who thinks black people are lesser human beings simply because of their skin color, would go to a movie about black people. In my experience, racists like to watch movies without any people of color in them, unless said people of color are subservient.

Not everything has a racial bias component. Some people are just jerks or don't have conflict resolution skills.

@31 Putting a single hat on a seat to reserve 3 seats is not appropriate. In fact, in a very popular movie, I don't think you should be able to reserve seats at unless at least one party is present. If you want three seats and also want popcorn and dr. pepper, then leave at least one person behind that sits in the middle and has a jacket on the right seat and a purse on the left seat.

@34 Drama Queeeeeeeen.