The Daily Show
is testing out North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law in practise – by setting up
a homophobic fast food truck.
North Carolina
has lost
a string of big investment ventures over Governor Pat McCrory’s
decision to sign the contentious HB 2 – which voided all local ordinances
protecting LGBT rights, banned transgender people from using their preferred
bathroom, and permits businesses to discriminate against LGBT people on the
grounds of religious belief.
McCrory
has continued
to insist the rules are “common sense”, but a string of major
employers are boycotting the state over the attack on the rights of their LGBT
employees.
To emphasise
the impact of the law beyond just bathrooms, Comedy Central’s Daily Show
decided to legally set up a fast food truck in the state that refuses to serve
gay people.
Roy Wood Jr
explained: “I wanted to show North Carolinians what HB2 would look like in
action so I rented a food truck made up a fake barbecue company and set out to
refuse service to people by telling them they’re gay.
“Let’s be
clear, I don’t care if they’re gay but HB2 says I can do this Jim Crow-level
s**t and nobody can stop me.
“Time for North
Carolina to try a little bit of the bone brothers, flame and barbecue.”
Setting up the
truck with correspondent Jordan Klepper, the pair take issue
with a man who tries to order a barbeque sandwich.
Klepper tells
him: “You can’t just throw it in everybody’s face.
We’re not going to
serve you. We’re discriminating you because you’re gay.”
When the
customer insists he has been married to a woman for 22 years,
they responds “Whatever you want to tell yourself at night, man.
“I got a weird
vibe. That’s all we need. Sorry.”
After refusing
to serve a few customers for ‘homosexuality’, Wood quips: “It’s fun here, you
can say whatever the f**k you want.
“Is this what
being white is like? You just tell people no for no reason?”
Everyone
featured in the skit did actually get free food after the prank was revealed.
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