Thread: Garage sale nightmare: Woman refuses to sell to homosexuals,

Garage sale nightmare: Woman refuses to sell to homosexuals, Muslims and immigrants
BY Nina Mandell
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, July 18th 2011, 5:08 PM


The angry racist woman was also selling her home.

Shoppers looking on craigslist for some bargains got quite a shock from one potential couch-seller.

A woman in Leesburg, Va., is receiving national attention after she responded to queries about an ad on craigslist about her garage sale with a racist and homophobic email.

The email, sent to Gawker.com by a man who just needed some furniture, welcomes everyone to the sale - except "LGBT people, illegal immigrants, and muslims."

After all, she writes, she's looking to avoid "drama, terrorism, or illegal transactions with non-US citizens/illegal immigrants/people taking jobs away from people who belong and are legal in this country is desired. Thanks."

When the Gawker tipster, who is gay, emailed the woman back asking why she was discriminating against potential shoppers she replied, "i have gay friends, but i don't need that kind of unknown drama element around me as i know how it can be at times. no thanks. just like i don't want someone drunk or on drugs at the sale. homosexuality is a sin and i won't stack up your sin against mine, but i can choose the type of people to whom my belongings will end up with ... and what I'm supporting with that action."

In the ad, the woman included links to her Facebook album featuring the furniture that was for sale. The pictures are now littered with comments mocking her emails.

"Purple seems to be a recurring color. Which, interestingly enough is like the unofficial color to raise awareness for teenagers who have committed suicide after being tormented, teased, harassed, etc for being gay," one commenter wrote on a picture of a bathroom storage cabinet surrounded by a purple wall.

And on a picture of her stainless steel sink, another commenter quipped "Meth lab, here I come!"

The ad has since been removed from craigslist.

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Garage sale nightmare: Woman refuses to sell to homosexuals, Muslims and immigrants

Notice how, once again, the word ILLEGAL is not inserted before the word immigrants?

I think this woman has a right to sell to, or not sell to, whomever she wants, but might have been smarter to fend off the "offending" buyers as they came along and not posted such in the ads.

I bet not one commenter had the balls to back her up with this type of statement as I made above - I mean after all, it "feels good" to be in the "winning team", right? AKA the "Bandwagon Effect".

Just to add to that - the same goes for buyers being able to buy from whomever THEY want. When we were looking for a pickup truck and someone with a thick accent or non English anwered the call - we'd just hang up and go to the next one.

I don't think it's "racist" - it's just that we didn't want to hassle around with a language barrier.

Boozwa
11:56 PM
Jul 18, 2011
Although I think she's a bit on the extreme side, she has every right to sell to whomever she wants. She now has nonstop hypocrites also known as, "the loving caring, and open minded tolerating liberals," sending her hate mail now. Now, what is wrong with this picture.

OK, I stand corrected. Most of the comments at the article are on her side although they might not agree with the lack of tact. By reading the article only, you'd never guess. Typical of a liberal NY rag like this.