‘Im not a racist person at all’

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MCLEOD Just outside the tiny town of McLeod, Montana, sits Holly’s Roadkill Saloon where the owner continues to face backlash, and has been since the start of the COVID pandemic, for a controversial and racist reference to Asians and COVID.

Chris Girardot of Billings is just one of the many appalled by the language and is not willing to let it go because of the several posts made by the bar owner with divisive language.

You wouldn’t tell somebody, a victim of a crime, oh get over it, it was three years ago, he said.

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MTN talked with the owner of the bar, Holly Tinch, who stands by what shes written.

You want to call me an Irish name, have at it. Ask me if I care, I dont, said Tinch.

Girardot was adopted from South Korea when he was a couple of months old and took the statements personally. You can see that Im of Asian descent. And Ive been in fights in high school because I was the only brown kid. So, yes, I took offense to that, Girardot said.

He and others are fighting back the only way they know how – with bad online reviews of the saloon.

Girardot said, The owner tried to post my personal phone number to get people to harass me.” However, the phone number posted by the owner was not Girardot’s number.

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But Tinch sees it much differently. She says most people arent upset by her comments, but rather by her decision to make the establishment a 21 and older saloon.

Ive never had any fights in here. Ive never had any problems in here, except for people wanting to bring their kids here and Im not a babysitter, she said.

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She also said that her language in reference to COVID is not racist.

Im not a racist person at all. And if you think that I am, that’s your problem, not mine, Tinch said.

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Tinch says she is standing by her rights as an American to say what she wants and says the bad reviews haven’t hurt, but have actually helped bring business in.

And Im going to stand by my First Amendment and my Second Amendment and the rest of them, she said.

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