Donna Damaso uploaded the clip to TikTok on Sunday of a masked man berating two women for not speaking English during their conversation at Brighouse Station on the Richmond Canada Line. According to Damaso, the incident happened on August 11. “It was my first time dealing with a situation like this,” he told CTV News. “He’s harassing women so I decided to speak up and tell him it’s not right and he’s racist. More from NextShark: Asian 7-Eleven employee punched over possible hate crime in New York In Damaso’s clip, the man can be heard lecturing the women to speak English because they are in Canada. When Damaso approaches them and calls the man a racist, he repeatedly denies that he is one. At one point he claims to be a lawyer. According to the man, “his native language is French” and “he was born, raised and educated here.” Damaso then tells the man that he had “no right to tell people” what language they could speak. More from NextShark: Trump awards 16-year-old pilot who delivered 10,000 PPE to rural Virginia hospitals Undaunted, the man fires back: “If we have to bend over backwards to fit in, then that’s a problem. Why do we have to bend over backwards? You’re moving to Japan, you speak Japanese.” The man repeatedly asks Damaso why he doesn’t care about the women who speak another language as they try to leave. Damaso and the Asian women are finally separated from the man as they go up the escalator to the platform. The man is seen in the clip in the background walking towards his bike. More from NextShark: Yoshinoya fires executive for making sexist comments during Tokyo university lecture Damaso’s video has so far garnered over 366,000 views on TikTok and almost 25,000 likes. Many of the comments praised Damaso for standing by the man, while others criticized the man for claiming to be a lawyer. The story continues The incident brings to mind a similar racist rant last year by a man who also claimed to be a lawyer and graduate from McGill. More from NextShark: Torrance Man Reportedly Receiving Weird Anti-Asian Mail From ‘Church of Scientology’ Featured image via @donnamlu
