A manager at a restaurant in Canada, was fired after refusing to serve a customer wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat last week.
Darin Hodge, former manager of the Teahouse in Stanley Park, Vancouver, asked the man to take off the MAGA slogan cap which was used by U.S President Donald Trump during his 2016 electoral campaign.
Hodge told Global News that he stood by his decision to ask the man to take his cap, saying the it represented “racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, misogyny, white supremacy [and] homophobia.”
“As a person with a strong moral backbone, I had to take a stand against this guest’s choice of headwear while in my former place of work. Absolutely no regrets.”
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