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
    8442·
    1 year ago

    There’s not really enough information here to form an opinion unless you’re just into feeling outrage at the headline

    He was in the correct section:

    Barber said he tried to use a special chair he brought with him in the disabled section of the theater but that staff stopped him and told him he couldn’t. Barber noted that he walks with two canes and uses his special chair everywhere he goes and has “never had a problem.” via secondary source: The Hollywood Reporter

    But thank you for valiantly rushing to the defense of AMC who had already apologized for what their staff did before your blatant attempt to blame the victim under the guise of “a lack of information.”

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      388·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the extra info, though you could’ve provided it without being a dick

      • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
        12·
        1 year ago

        You are in the wrong here. You could have not been an asshole in the first place. The reply was totally justified.

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        AMC will be bankrupt before the first hearing anyhow. They’re massively buried in debt, and just diluted stock, again, by quite a bit, while barely making my a dent in its debt.

        $AMC has lost 80+% of its value in the last year. 98% lost since 2021.

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
      161·
      1 year ago

      That info about him using the chair in the disabled section was never mentioned in the original Fortune article. That’s literally a lack of information. Don’t be so hostile.

      • Dankry@lemmy.worldOP
        2541·
        1 year 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
          201·
          1 year 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
          203·
          1 year 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·
          1 year 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.

    • Lmaydev@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      That information literally wasn’t in the article you linked so there’s no need to bite people’s heads off for asking a follow up questions.