A Los Angeles woman caught a disturbing incident on video where a man went on a racist rant against Chinese people. Tanny Jiraprapasuke, 44, who is Thai-American, told NBC that the man targeted her because she was Asian. The incident took place on the Los Angeles Metro Gold Line when she was traveling home with a friend after a late Saturday night. She initially didn’t pay attention to the man who was yelling on the train but she became concerned when he started talking about the coronavirus.

“(Expletive) all these (expletive) Chinese people. All these (expletive) Chinese people trying to ruin our (expletive),” he said before ranting about what Chinese people eat and their hygiene.

“That’s where the (expletive) disease came from, China,” he said. “Everything comes from China. Every disease has ever come from China homie.

“Everything comes from China… it’s (expletive) disgusting.

“Chinese people are (expletive) cool but their hygiene, they have no hygiene. Their hygiene is fucking disgusting …”

Check out the rest of his rant below.

https://www.facebook.com/tanny.jiraprapasuke/videos/10219588802485115/

Jiraprapasuke told USA Today that she didn’t think he was directing his rant at her until she noticed he was looking at her.

“I didn’t really actually think he was addressing me until about two minutes in when I started noticing from my peripheral vision that he was looking at me as he’s saying all of this,” she said.

The incident surprised Jiraprapasuke who thought if she was ever in this kind of situation she would be furious. Instead, she thought to herself how to get out of the situation.

“It was interesting because I had always thought that, if this ever happened to me, that I’d be furious,” she said. “I actually never got mad. It was more of, ‘OK. I’m under attack. What do I do? How do I get out of this?'”

Jiraprapasuke said that this incident changed her perception and awakened her to greater Asian American issues.

“The moment really shifted the way I think about the larger Asian-American community and this idea that we just have to stand up for each other,” she said.