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Vancouver’s Teahouse in Stanley Park has been flooded with a wave of one-star Yelp reviews following a recent incident that saw a manager fired for refusing service to a man in a “Make America Great Again” hat.

Darin Hodge was dismissed from the restaurant Thursday, two days after asking a customer to remove the red MAGA hat, which signals support not just for Donald Trump, but for his divisive and often racist policies.

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The Sequoia Company of Restaurants, which owns the Teahouse, said in an emailed statement that it “does not support intolerance of any kind” and “cannot discriminate against someone based on their support for the current administration in the United States or any other bona fide political party.”

But Hodge was defiant, releasing a statement Friday through Facebook standing by his decision. “The MAGA hat has come to symbolize racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia,” Hodge said. “As a person with a strong moral backbone, I had to take a stand against this guest’s choice of headgear while in my former place of work. Absolutely no regrets.”

News of the incident kicked off a tempest for the Teahouse.

Hodge’s name was trending on Twitter in Vancouver Friday afternoon, as many took to social media to voice their support for his actions and their anger with the Teahouse’s response, which they believed aligned the popular brunch spot with racism and hatespeech, rather than in opposition to it.