Sikh TikTok influencer decries racism for being asked to leave gym while wearing dagger
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Summary
Would you feel comfortable at the gym if the person working out beside you had an entire dagger strapped across their body? Well, people at Good Life Fitness were understandably uncomfortable with this idea, and when the Sikh man was asked to leave by an employee, he called it racism.
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Would you feel comfortable at the gym if the person working out beside you had an entire dagger strapped across their body?
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Well, people at Good Life Fitness were understandably uncomfortable with this idea,
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and when the Sikh man was asked to leave by an employee, he called it racism for being racially singled out.
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Take me out of the gym right now because you are scared that I'm going to take my religious symbol.
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So you're scared that I'm going to take this religious symbol and kill somebody.
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what i'm saying is you have a weapon on your person a member has brought it to my attention
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and for the safety of me and everybody else in the gym i'm asking you to leave
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but well i don't understand though i don't understand we're a private gym we're allowed
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to deny access this is group hartarp singhalsa and an employee at good life fitness politely
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asked him to leave because his dagger was making customers uncomfortable but he then mocked the
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employee asking her to clarify whether she was scared he was going to kill somebody with his
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religious symbol. Now this comes nearly two months after the murder trial of a Sikh man who murdered
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a teenager with a kirpan which is the religious dagger we just saw. What's interesting is that
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this man's TikTok shows videos of him actively wearing it while working out.
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I think people are just confused why you need to wear that in public let alone while working out
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at the gym. Now another video shows him making a gesture that he is slashing a throat while
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calling himself a sormas which means warrior in punjabi
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sudamins not soft pure pure sudamins strength guys it ain't mental it's power
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power not many people can ever get in their life how do you get it
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