Asian Amer Business Owner Called Gov. Abbott 'Selfish,' His TX Rest. Was Vandalized- 'Kung Flu'

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Despite the increasing awareness, hate crimes directed against Asian Americans have continued to rise amid the pandemic. Asian Americans have not only been physically assaulted and verbally abused, but businesses they own have been vandalized and destroyed by racist ill-informed individuals who blame them for the virus. In a recent incident, a Texas ramen restaurant was covered in xenophobic graffiti after the owner spoke out against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to lift all coronavirus restrictions in the state, including wearing masks.

Photos of the vandalism depicted phrases written on the windows including “no mask,” “kung flu,” “commie,” “hope u die” and “ramen noodle flu.”

According to ABC affiliate KSAT 12, Mike Nguyen, the owner, found the red graffiti on the windows of his San Antonio-based restaurant, Noodle Tree, on Sunday. The restaurant’s Facebook page noted a delayed opening to address the incident. Nguyen noted while he was prepared for hateful comments on social media following his interview, he didn’t expect this form of hate. “I’m still a little shocked that this would actually happen,” Nguyen told the San Antonio Express-News Sunday. “When I got here, that’s when it actually sunk in.”

According to the San Antonio Current, Nguyen has received a number of death threats following his interview. Despite this, he wrote on Facebook that he will not back down from his comments. “Our governor has betrayed us, but that doesn’t mean we have to follow him blindly,” Nguyen wrote. “Today we show the whole country that we aren’t a joke that the governor has made us out to be.” Nguyen was featured on CNN with a handful of other restaurant owners who shared their opinion of Texas lifting mask mandates on Wednesday.

He told CNN that amid the pandemic, his restaurant was forced to close for nearly six months causing an issue in his finances. He then reopened Noodle Tree with COVID-19 safety protocols in place. He also shared his diagnosis of Lymphoma and called Abbott’s decision to remove the state’s mask mandate “selfish” and “cowardly.” “Greg Abbott doesn’t have the Texas people’s interest in mind. He cares about himself at this point,” Nguyen told CNN. “I was almost devastated when I heard the news just because this year has been tough on me. Not only dealing with the stress of my sickness, but also dealing with the stress that comes with COVID and the anxiety that comes with that.”...

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[Demovictory9]

1. sad... death threats and vandalism to a guy who is fighting an illness

[secondwind]

2. This is another example of what Trump has wrought.

I could not hate another person more.

[KS Toronado]

3. Death threats, death threats, and more death threats these past 4 years.

If the republican party can't stop the hatred coming from within their ranks, the entire party will be on the FBI's
terrorist watch list. Then again maybe that's the only way they get votes, fear & hatred.

[ShazzieB]

4. God must really love assholes.

You can tell he does, because he made so darned many of them.

[NCjack]

5. Gov Abbott, do you have the decency to call off those thugs? People of Texas,

do you have the decency to remove Gov. Abbott? Any of you can suffer attacks from his thugs.

[RVN VET71]

7. Well, no, he doesn't, no, they do not, and, sadly, they refuse to believe it.

Texans, albeit a majority of them, voted for this dumb, racist bastard and his lieutenant governor and tatty general.

So, no, most Texan voters do not have the decency to do what any decent person would do because most Texan voters are, simply, not decent people.

And they do not accept your admonition that, basically, thugs-be-thugs and their next target could be a good, white, christian, Texas secessionist Republican. “Who, me? No way!” they'd say, with expressions all innocent like, as they hide the spray paint can behind their backs. “‘Sides, I ain’t racist. It’s just those mouthy ones I don’t like.”

[AZ8theist]

6. I still am UNABLE.....

To comprehend HOW FUCKING STUPID TRUMPTARDS ARE......