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'American Owned' nail salon sign seen as offensive to some
WOAI ^ | 04/03/2013

Posted on 04/03/2013 12:23:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

A sign posted outside a Collin County nail salon promoting it as "American Owned, American Staffed" is generating controversy.

The merchant defends her sign by saying it's a "patriotic business decision." But others believe it's focused more on what her Fairview business isn’t: Asian owned and operated.

Ed Thayer said he was offended when he saw the sign in the window of the St. Tropez Nail Spa. He's a regular customer at a Vietnamese restaurant next door. He and his wife adopted four girls who are Vietnamese-Americans.

Thayer said he was so upset, he went into the salon to confront the owner.

"I said, 'This sign here implies that the other salons around here that are owned by Asian-Americans are less American than you,'" Thayer recalled.


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: americaowned; antiamericanism; asia; biden; enoughalready; hillary; india; liberalracism; nailsalon; stupidliberals; vietnam
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A Nail Salon that is non-Asian? That is news.

1 posted on 04/03/2013 12:23:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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I often wonder if liberals ever actually listen to what they are saying....
"This sign here implies that the other salons around here that are owned by Asian-Americans are less American than you."

2 posted on 04/03/2013 12:24:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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The obvious conclusion is that Ed Thayer is a racist


3 posted on 04/03/2013 12:25:16 PM PDT by Cyman
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Please tell the offended to shove it up their smelly Obamas.

This is getting to the limit and sooner or later we have to make much better use of our middle fingers.

Politeness and civility be dammed.


4 posted on 04/03/2013 12:25:18 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Responsibility2nd; a fool in paradise
St. Tropez Nail Spa

American Owned, American Staffed, American Named! Way to go grrrrrl!

5 posted on 04/03/2013 12:25:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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'This sign here implies that the other salons around here that are owned by Asian-Americans are less American than you,'

Another student that failed Logic 101.

6 posted on 04/03/2013 12:28:19 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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NOTE to Mr. Thayer.....THIS is AMERICA where we live...if you don’t like it, you can go elsewhere!


7 posted on 04/03/2013 12:28:48 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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Need to deport that UN hugging liberal America-hating Globalist


8 posted on 04/03/2013 12:29:06 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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I said, 'This sign here implies that the other salons around here that are owned by Asian-Americans are less American than you,'" Thayer recalled.

Maybe people this insecure and crazy shouldn't be adopting foreign children.
9 posted on 04/03/2013 12:30:23 PM PDT by Vision (Obama is king of the "Takers." Don't be a "Taker.")
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To: Responsibility2nd; a fool in paradise

Isn’t it enough that all the tools they use, all the overhead lightbulbs, all the mirrors, the staff’s clothing have been made in China? Sheesh!


10 posted on 04/03/2013 12:30:24 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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He's a regular customer at a Vietnamese restaurant next door.
The restaurant says they are Vietnamese.
11 posted on 04/03/2013 12:31:37 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (I forgot.)
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I’d rather stay at an American owned hotel too rather than some place owned by the Patel family from India.


12 posted on 04/03/2013 12:31:56 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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I don’t recall there being among our Constitutional rights the right to not be offended! These people have an actual appropriate way to respond to this business owner and that is to not patronize her establishment, otherwise they need to just shut up! I’m fed up with Americans and others that insist we not be proud of or promote our own country because that might offend someone! My response to them is STFU!


13 posted on 04/03/2013 12:32:11 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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I don’t see a problem here. The commie ‘RATS keep telling us that foreign nationals living in this country are “americans”. They refer to them as “americans” all of the time as in, “The majority of ‘americans’ are demanding “immigration reform”. Which “Americans” are they talking about? Americans don’t shive a git about “immigration reform”. They are already citizens of the U.S. The “americans” the ‘RATS are always talking about must be foreign nationals who are living in this country illegally (illegal aliens).


14 posted on 04/03/2013 12:35:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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Ed Thayer said he was offended!

15 posted on 04/03/2013 12:39:54 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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Shove your “offense” Ed, you limp-wristed pansy. Stop projecting racism where it doesn’t exist.


16 posted on 04/03/2013 12:40:22 PM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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Ahem...Mr Thayer, you petulant little child, I am OFFENDED that you are offended....Therefore, following your own standards, YOU need to STFU!!


17 posted on 04/03/2013 12:40:38 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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Ed Thayer said he was offended when he saw the sign in the window of the St. Tropez Nail Spa. He's a regular customer at a Vietnamese restaurant next door.

I remember in Arizona, the Mexicans would cross the border and drive up to Taco Bell for "American food".

18 posted on 04/03/2013 12:41:13 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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Where can I post my list of what offends me?

It needs to be someplace where those doing the offending, are most apt to see it, so they’ll be shamed into changing....

hmmm....1600 Penn.....

oh...wait...no “shame” there....


19 posted on 04/03/2013 12:42:49 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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Thayer said he was so upset, he went into the salon to confront the owner

At which time I would point him to the door with my .44 and tell him not to come back.

20 posted on 04/03/2013 12:44:46 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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