Her employer thought she was just too nutty.
“Pistachio Girl,” a cult figure from Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Stadium, has been fired from her job as a food vendor for taking her white nationalism public.
Emily Youcis, whose elongated cries of “Peanuts!” and “Pistachios!” had given her status at the Phillies ballpark, revealed her controversial non-food-hawking views first in a spat last month while attending a Washington white-supremacy conference.
Youcis, who reportedly has been embracing the so-called “alt-right” movement for about 10 months, has become increasingly vocal in her white pride, which she says has gotten her canned by Aramark, the food service that employed her in Philadelphia.
In an interview with Red Ice TV — which couches its agenda by saying it has a “pro-European perspective” — the 26-year-old Youcis confirmed she had been fired.
“We’re going to have to terminate you because your social media does not reflect our values,” Youcis said she was told, before defending herself. “I’ve never advocated for violence, I’ve never used any sort of racial slurs or anything like that. The worst thing I did was I retweeted [former KKK leader] David Duke.”
Youcis, who has amassed more than 6,000 Twitter followers, said she had been waiting for years to get fired for her beliefs.
“A core Aramark value is treating everyone with integrity and respect always,” Aramark said in a statement to Philly.com. “That includes respecting our associates’ right to privacy and dealing with personnel matters confidentially. We can only confirm that the individual asked about is no longer employed after publicly connecting our company to views that contradict our values.”
The beliefs of the self-described alt-right have received increased attention following the election of Donald Trump. Youcis called it a “white identity movement. This doesn’t mean that we hate anybody — we simply want to find our own identity as Americans … as white Americans, and find our own culture.”
In detailing the support she has received online, she says, “Other white people [are] being like, ‘Hey, why can’t I be proud to be white? Everyone else can. I’m tired of this.’ They’re waiting for someone to say it.”
Youcis said she is considering getting a lawyer.
“The baseball players love me, they all wave to me,” she said. “I was like a God there. I owned that stadium.”