The latest problem for small restaurants isn’t figuring out whether they can afford to pay a higher minimum wage or higher taxes. Instead, it’s about how they can survive being on the crossfires on the “war on cultural appropriation’.

Progressives have spoken against whites cooking or eating ethic foods, justifying their logic with the fact that whites ‘steal ethnic culture’ just to make an racist mockery of it or for financial profit. God forbid someone tell them that famous chefs, such as Rick Bayless, cooking ethnic or ethnic-inspired foods is a homage to the brilliance of foreign cultures rather than just ‘cultural theft’.

However, average owners of ethnic restaurants aren’t too involved about politics, many are just trying to survive. But a survey revealed that the new culture of political correctness as become an increasingly top worry for many.

One of them is Ferdinand, who asked that his last name remain anonymous to avoid harassment. He runs a taco shop in Berkeley, California and states that cultural appropriation is threatening his business.

“Radical progressives dominate this area,” Ferdinand says, “my business was good until non-Latinos stopped showing up due to concerns of cultural appropriation.”

“People think I’m Latino since I’m tan and I speak Spanish, but I’m a direct descendant of Spain, an 100% White European,” he said, “and once those progressives find out, they accuse me of stealing Mexican culture and threaten to burn me down. It’s just horrible.”

“And why?” he asked. “Is it a crime to make food from another culture? I thought our country was about being a ‘melting pot’, a diversity.”

Ferdinand cited how his shop saw decreasing business since rioters, such as Antifa, were creating so much violence around the area that customers were driven away from his business. And during peacetime, when violent riots subsided, one or two students protesters from the nearby University of California Berkeley would always be at the front of the shop to tell would-be customers that he was “culturally appropriating Mexican food”.

“Those student protesters are pretty dedicated to ruining me,” Ferdinand said, “when a protester would leave the front of my place, he would hand his sign to another protester that just showed up. I think they were coordinating around the clock to protest me.”

He’s called the police before, but they can’t stop the protesters since they’re standing on the sidewalks in front of the restaurant, which is public property. Only when protesters are on Ferdinand’s property can they be evicted.

“My employees are victims too,” he shared, “they’re students, like the protesters, but still get harassed for working for my ‘cultural appropriation.”

“They just want to make an honest living like me,” he continued, “but one of them had to quit after her car got keyed, tires punctured, [and a] windshield broken. How can they do that to an young innocent, hard-working woman? It really makes my blood boil”.

“And she’s actually Mexican,” he said, “you would assume that she’d be qualified to serve Mexican food, but that didn’t stop the Antifa students or whatever. All they want is chaos and destruction.”

Even worse was that Ferdinand believes that another student employee who, after ignoring warnings to stop working there, had personal information leaked online by fellow students and was harassed at school. Both the employee and protesters attend UC Berkeley.

“It’s stupid,” he said. “Stopping my little taco shop isn’t going to bring down cultural appropriation, or the white male patriarchy, or whatever else they’re hating on.”

“Do they really think people eat tacos to make a mockery of Mexicans, or because it tastes good and they’re hungry?” he asked.

Ferdinand plans on moving out of Berkeley, citing that the protests have hurt his revenue to the point where it’s getting impossible to survive, in addition to having to cope with paying a proposed higher minimum wages and higher taxes.

Already, the restaurant business is more of the most competitive industries to survive in. An Ohio State University study calculated that 80% of restaurants last under five years. But these “good-for-nothing politicians don’t care about anything, except [on] how to make it too expensive to survive.”

“They’re ruining me while I’m trying to feed my kids, create jobs for employees, and food for customers,” he said, of both protesters and politicians. “What have those lazy people done, besides screwing innocent people building a life?”

“It’s easier to destroy than build,” he finished.