AOC say's it's "straight up racist" to avoid Chinese restaurants !

[DigitalDrifter]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

 

[blackhawk]

I don’t go to them because I’m not into Chinese food anyone thinks that racist screw em.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The owner/server who I always get at my favorite Chinese restaurant, is very nice, and I pretty much consider her a friend. However just afew months ago she was back home in China for an entire month, and she had mentioned she visited many areas of China that she had never been to previously. Would you want to be around someone that has been to China recently ?
There's nothing racist about that, it's simply part of making the best decisions to limit your exposure to this virus.

 

[MarathonMike]

Let's see the video of AOC chowing down in a Chinese restaurant. Lead by example or STFU.

 

[Billiejeens]

She's 12

She thinks and speaks as a child would.

 

[Auld Phart]

I live in a small town.

we have, I think, 3 Chinese restaurants, and not one edible, IMO

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Also, ALL restaurants are going to lose business.
Singling out Chinese restaurants, again, is simply an educated decision to lessen your most likely exposure.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

AOC is a straight up racist for wanting open borders and to abolish ICE

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

AOC also says that Cauliflower is racist....sooooo...

 

[aaronleland]

I don't think it's racist. I think it's silly.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Chinese is not a race. But I wouldn't expect a bartender to know that.

 

[White 6]

The owner/server who I always get at my favorite Chinese restaurant, is very nice, and I pretty much consider her a friend. However just afew months ago she was back home in China for an entire month, and she had mentioned she visited many areas of China that she had never been to previously. Would you want to be around someone that has been to China recently ?
There's nothing racist about that, it's simply part of making the best decisions to limit your exposure to this virus.

You sound righteously cautious to me. Only one really good one in my town, really nice place, family owned, really nice people, but I do not know their travel habits and am over 65. You are just showing due caution.

 

[White 6]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

AOC is a straight up racist for wanting open borders and to abolish ICE

Maybe not a racist, just a socialist nutball. Bet she was a decent cocktail waitress. The dumb assed Republican should have kept the home fires burning, while enjoying the Washington lifestyle. If he had, nobody would even ask who she is.

 

[2aguy]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

Doesn't she understand that voting democrat party is racist....? They owned the slave, they started the Civil War to keep the slaves, they started the klan, jim crow, fought anti-lynching laws, and all but the last Civil Rights acts (cause LBJ realized at the end if they didn't jump on the Civil Rights at the end, Blacks would stop voting democrat....)

The one party in this country that was founded on racism, and is even now the home of racists of a all skin colors is the democrat party...

Voting for democrats is racist....not going to a Chinese restaurant is not.

 

[Billiejeens]

I don't think it's racist. I think it's silly.

Why?

 

[Billiejeens]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

AOC is a straight up racist for wanting open borders and to abolish ICE

Maybe not a racist, just a socialist nutball. Bet she was a decent cocktail waitress. The dumb assed Republican should have kept the home fires burning, while enjoying the Washington lifestyle. If he had, nobody would even ask who she is.

What Republican?

 

[petro]

Fight racism.

Lick an Asian today.

 

[aaronleland]

I don't think it's racist. I think it's silly.

Why?

At this rate China isn't even being hardest hit. You'd be safer at your local Chinese restaurant than Italian restaurant..

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I don't think it's racist. I think it's silly.

Why?

At this rate China isn't even being hardest hit. You'd be safer at your local Chinese restaurant than Italian restaurant..

This strain came out of Wuhan, and you have no idea if China is giving us all of the facts regarding their numbers of infected.

In the meantime, you and AOC should read this:

The Kitchen Network
America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.

Chinatown employment agencies can get immigrants kitchen jobs in a few hours.Photograph by Annie Ling


In a strip mall on a rural stretch of Maryland’s Indian Head Highway, a gaudy red façade shaped like a pagoda distinguishes a Chinese restaurant from a line of bland storefronts: a nail salon, a liquor store, and a laundromat. On a mild Friday morning this July, two customers walked into the dimly lit dining room. It was half an hour before the lunch service began, and, aside from a few fish swimming listlessly in a tank, the room was deserted.

In the back, steam was just starting to rise from pots of soup; two cooks were chopping ginger at a frenzied pace. Most of the lunch crowd comes in for the buffet, and it was nowhere near ready. “Customers are here already!” the restaurant’s owner, a wiry Chinese man in his fifties, barked. He dropped a heavy container onto the metal counter with a crash. “How can you possibly be moving this slowly?”


The senior cook, a lanky twenty-nine-year-old who goes by Rain, had been working in Maryland for almost two months. He stood silently frying noodles in a wok, his loose bangs tucked into a trucker hat with the band name Linkin Park written across the brow. “You’re too slow!” the boss yelled at the other cook, who had arrived only a few days earlier. Rain stayed focussed on the buffet dishes. He was weighing the possibility of getting a cigarette break soon. There was no sense in getting into trouble defending a co-worker he hardly knew.


Rain was born in a village in rural China. He had left his family, walked through a desert, and gone tens of thousands of dollars into debt to reach the United States. From Manhattan, he had taken a late-night Chinatown bus, which stopped at freeway off-ramps to discharge other restaurant workers, whose bosses picked them up and took them to strip malls along Interstate 95. He was in his fourth year of restaurant work and felt a growing pride in his fried noodles and sautéed shrimp.

The other cook set down his knife and squared off with the boss. “I have worked in a lot of restaurants, and none of those bosses complained!” he said. “If you’re so worried about it, why don’t you come do it yourself?” The cook stormed out of the kitchen, on his way to catch a bus back to New York. Rain sighed. The next forty-eight hours were the busiest of the week, and he would be the only cook in the kitchen. “You think I was wrong to talk to him like that?” the boss asked. Rain didn’t answer.


There are more than forty thousand Chinese restaurants across the country—nearly three times the number of McDonald’s outlets. There is one in Pinedale, Wyoming (population 2,043), and one in Old Forge, New York (population 756); Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania (population 1,085), has three. Most are family operations, staffed by immigrants who pass through for a few months at a time, living in houses and apartments that have been converted into makeshift dormitories. The restaurants, connected by Chinese-run bus companies to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, make up an underground network—supported by employment agencies, immigrant hostels, and expensive asylum lawyers—that reaches back to villages and cities in China, which are being abandoned for an ideal of American life that is not quite real.

Rain, who asked that I use his adopted English name to protect his identity, is reedy and slight, with a wide face and sloping cheekbones. He is observant, in no hurry to speak, but he is more cagey than timid. Like his boss, and like everyone else who works at the restaurant, he is primarily concerned with saving as much money as possible. He needs to pay the snakehead that got him to the U.S. and send money to his family in China. He harbors the vague suspicion that everyone around him is angling for more money, less work, or some other benefit at his expense. So, instead of conversation, Rain occupies himself with the math of a transient cook: the time it takes to clean the shrimp, the days before he can visit his girlfriend in New York, and the balance of his debts. At night, he lies on a cot in his boss’s otherwise empty living room, mulling the slow processing of his green card. During the day, if he’s feeling bold, he walks across the strip-mall parking lot to order lunch at Subway, pointing at the menu when he doesn’t know the English word for something.

“I understand why he acts like this,” Rain told me, about his boss. “He’s been working in that restaurant for almost twenty years. He goes back and forth between the restaurant and the dorm where we live. Back and forth, back and forth, every day for years.” The boss’s wife and kids are in China. “You do this kind of work for that long, and you start to lose perspective.” Rain pinched his fingers together. “Your world is this small.”

I met Rain in New York’s Chinatown, standing under a sign that read, “Lucky Days Employment Agency.” He had left his previous restaurant job, at a takeout place in Connecticut, a week before, and after a few days off he was looking for a new job. “You can look online, but nobody does,” Rain said. “This is easier.”

The corner of Eldridge and Forsyth, at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, is cluttered with employment agencies that do business in Chinese. Signs identify the Xingdao Restaurant Employment Agency, the Red Red Restaurant Employment Agency, and the Successful Restaurant Employment Agency. “There are only three jobs a Chinese immigrant can get without papers,” a woman from Beijing told me. “You can work at a massage parlor, you can work doing nails, or you can work in a restaurant.” People come here looking for work as busboys, waiters, or cooks.

It was Sunday, the busiest day of the week, and job seekers spilled out of the agencies, down stairwells, and out into the streets. In tiny local canteens, they ate spicy peanut noodles and pork dumplings before resuming the hunt. The corner gets quieter as the weekend approaches. Bosses don’t want new employees showing up on a busy Friday or Saturday; even an experienced chef requires a few hours to learn a new menu.

Each agency consists of a narrow room with a desk behind bars and employs a small staff of women who sit flanked by phones and notebooks. Stickers pasted to the bars differentiate jobs in New Jersey, Long Island, and upstate New York. Most everything else is just “out of state.” Rain moved among the offices, weaving through the crowd. “All the agencies are about the same,” he said, watching a Chinese couple pass from one door to the next. “But your chances are better if you leave your phone number with all of them.” The women behind the bars scribble the information in college-ruled notebooks. Then, Rain said, you sit around in stairwells and on sidewalks and wait for them to call. Job seekers have to be ready to leave within hours, and Rain expected to be on a bus by the end of the day.

America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers

 

[DigitalDrifter]

So, will anyone from the left challenge her on this ?
Don't worry, I won't hold my breath.