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No, in general establishments can refuse service to anyone they please - imagine a consultant forced to engage with every client who asks!

There are certain protected classes of people you cannot discriminate against. I'm having a really hard time seeing how Breitbart could fit any of those definitions. You can totally refuse to serve customers acting in a way you find objectionable.

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You're mostly right. The law actually says

"the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination by privately owned places of public accommodation on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin."

If someone refuses me service as a jewish white man, that's illegal (despite jews/whites/men are not being a protected class)

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