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Hillyard Coffee Stand Faces Outcry Over Offensive Sign | Spokane News
A Hillyard coffee stand sparked outrage after posting a hateful sign reading “Trans women are retarded men,” a slur with a long history of targeting people with intellectual disabilities. The offensive message, visible from the street, triggered a flood of negative reviews, causing the business’s rating to plummet and prompting Yelp to disable new reviews while investigating. This isn’t the first time the stand has displayed inflammatory signs—past messages targeted immigration, race, and sexuality—but this one hit especially hard, galvanizing nearly 500 community members to protest Sunday…
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