FROM NY POST: A woke Build-A-Bear Workshop employee in Washington state allegedly refused a teen customer’s wish to name her new teddy after slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
What started as a lighthearted trip with friends to the Southcenter Mall outside Seattle soon soured for 16-year-old Evi McCormick when the store manager shot down her request to put Kirk’s name on her newly-created stuffed animal’s birth certificate, the teen told King 5 News.
“She just didn’t agree with it. She didn’t support it and she told me, ‘We’re not doing this,’” McCormick told the outlet.
According to the report, the employee crumpled up the birth certificate and threw it away.
McCormick’s friend, Kailie Lang, said the encounter “definitely made us all very uncomfortable.”
McCormick meant no harm, she said she just wanted to honor Kirk, 31.
“I was just mesmerized and captivated that he could speak with such elegance,” McCormick said of Kirk, who “was a role model” to her.
“It wasn’t political until she made it that way,” the teen said.
The girl’s mother contacted the corporate office. They initially offered a $20 gift card, but later they apologized and promised that they would re-train their Seattle-area employees so that politics is not part of the experience in the teddy bear shop.
“She said that their goal is to try to prevent this sort of situation from happening to anybody else,” the mom said.
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