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The Japanese restaurant that does not accept children opens a debate
  • The Balicana restaurant in Bilbao has prohibited access to minors due to the "search for a certain environment". We have seen a debate on the net between those who defend the right to calm and those who denounce discrimination and umephobia. Basically, the key is coexistence.
Mikel Garcia Idiakez @mikelgi 2021eko irailaren 30a

The arguments of those who agree with the ban: that it is a private business and that therefore it can use the criteria it wants, that families have a lot of restaurants to go with children, that bars are not a place where there are children – because it is actually a restaurant, but we have read many on the net that argument – and that it is legitimate not to want to share space with children, because they are often rabid and unresponsible parents allow them to do so.

Those who opposed the ban, are there no red streaks, even if they are private? Does age discrimination not amount to discrimination based on sex, race or belief? Some have stressed that we have all been children, but that many have forgotten, because some people's reasoning originates in umephobia: they say that children are bothering, but why we put the spotlight there, and not in adults who speak out loud, or in heavy drunks.

We have problems living together in certain areas, more empathy would often be appreciated, and this kind of ban does nothing but outcrop all that.