Posted on 05/08/2020 8:00:09 PM PDT by rintintin
Leaders in Orange County’s Vietnamese American community said Friday they were “surprised and disappointed” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who a day earlier pointed to a nail salon as the first site of community spread of the coronavirus.
It wasn’t so much what he said, but how he said it.
“This whole thing started in the state of California, the first community spread, in a nail salon,” Newsom said during his news briefing Thursday in answer to a question from a reporter.
“I’m very worried about that.”
But the governor’s words also worry people involved in the predominantly Vietnamese American nail salon industry. Some said Friday, at a press conference in Garden Grove, that his tone could add fuel to a growing anti-Asian sentiment related to the coronavirus.
“The xenophobia is growing as much as the pandemic,” said Tammy Tran, an Orange County community leader.
Tam Nguyen, president of Advance Beauty College in Garden Grove and Laguna Hills, said Newsom’s comments could lead to discrimination against the Vietnamese-run salons and prompt some customers to stay away once the shops, currently closed due to the pandemic, are allowed to reopen.
“In this highly charged environment, some folks could use that for their own purposes,” said Nguyen, whose recently formed philanthropic organization, “Nailing it for America,” joined the industry group Pro Nails Association to co-host the press conference.
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And what evidence does Newsom have? Sounds like BS to me.
Commies hate the South Vietnamese that were refugees in 75. They are mostly anti communist and patriotic. Bob Bitchin is an Ahole.
He was being asked about barber shops and why they can’t open.
He responded by taking a shot at nail salons.
That was yesterday. Today, a reporter asked whether he was “throwing the nail salon industry under the bus,” and he got REALLY defensive. He realizes he can be tagged as racist.
Sad thing is, these days it’s freer in the old country than in the US.
Absolutely true.
Newsome is a horse’s ass. There is no way to track it to a nail salon. It was somebody from Wuhan who flew to California.
“It was somebody from Wuhan who flew to California...” to get a great manicure.
He was probably told it started in a hardware store and mistook it for a nail salon...
I work with “Both”
sides in My shop,
still difficult to
figure out.
Newsom's solution: never allow the nail salons to reopen. Problem goes away!
elections matter.
“Vietnamese American community”.
Oh, another sub-culture “Community” that has no intention of assimilating.
Too bad they cannot just assimilate, that would make it harder to “Pick on” them as a group.
They are more assimilated than Newsome!
Newsom doesn’t like anti-communists, esp. since the majority vote for conservatives.
Bias on his part? Oh never. He’s an equal opportunity hater.
Good post.
Sounds like another stupid phony controversy. If community spread started in a nail salon it started in a nail salon. If it didn’t, it didn’t. Case closed - or the case should be closed after we find out if it did or if it didn’t. Either way, that’s all there is to it. No need to go into the whole aggrieved minorities bit.
I don't care who you are, that's hilarious!
The only Bob Bitchin I have heard of was a character in two Cheech and Chong routines.
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