A video showing a man lashing out at "Arabs and Democrats" in a racist rant at a Dallas-area Macy's store went viral this week, prompting the department store to open an investigation into the incident, Buzzfeed News reported.

Two videos posted on Twitter show an unidentified man complaining that two Macy's employees were speaking Arabic in front of him.

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One woman, apparently another customer, can be seen confronting the man as she tells him to act with respect toward one of the employees.

"You need to respect this lady or you need to leave," the woman tells the man, who is standing by a counter.

"I don’t need to do shit," he replies, encouraging her to "call security."

The man can be heard saying "They were speaking Arabic. I don't speak Arabic," in the video.

"Get these customers away from me,” he says. "All the Arabs, all you Arabs and Democrats. Go back to where you came from. How many Arabs came out of the woodwork?"

The man who posted the video on Twitter, identified by Buzzfeed News as "Ricky," told the online outlet that the man initially had complained that his gift wrapping wasn't free. When the employee helping him called over a coworker, the two spoke Arabic.

"The first thing I heard was, 'This is America. Speak English,'" Ricky told Buzzfeed. "From that point, it just escalated to what you see in the video."

I really walked into a Twitter video irl today... pic.twitter.com/TjxPaxwbEh — RICKY (@rickyy_____) December 25, 2018

Part 2.

this man made two women cry after publicy humiliating them. Please help me find this awful guy’s information pic.twitter.com/PmwHfFtr6H — RICKY (@rickyy_____) December 25, 2018

At the end of the video, a person can be heard calling the man a "snowflake."

"F-ck you," he replies. "Snowflake your ass. Stupid Democrat."

Macy's, in a statement to Buzzfeed, said the incident is being investigated.

"We believe our Macy’s employees and customers should be treated with dignity, respect, and kindness," a spokesperson told the outlet. "We aim to create a welcoming environment and we apologize for what occurred in our store. We are investigating this incident."