New York Daily News

Bakery bigot says she’s the victim

- BY MORGAN CHITTUM AND LARRY MCSHANE

She won’t wear a mask — or apologize for anything spewed from her uncovered mouth.

Donald Trump-loving Stephanie Denaro, a COVID-19 denier and anti-vaxxer, used a pair of Instagram accounts to defend her use of the N-word in her verbal assault on a Black bakery worker who simply asked her to don a facial covering. “I came here to say this,” she posted amid an onslaught of social media criticism over her racial slur. “I STAND BY WHAT I SAID !!!! You mistreat me with my children. You infringed on my freedoms. I have freedom of speech. I can SAY WHAT I FEEL. Leave me alone and stop attacking me for saying my opinion.”

The unapologet­ic white mother of three repeatedly denounced the Black counter worker at the Essex Bakery as a “b—— ass n——r” when he refused to fill her order for bagels, later offering the defense that her kids have a Black dad and “that’s a term I’ve heard them use all my life.”

The video went viral, and the Manhattan woman (photo) said Wednesday she and her children spent most of the past two days inside their apartment after her hateful tirade went public. But she’s not ready to apologize to the Black worker at the bakery counter inside the Essex Market on the Lower East Side.

“I’m sorry I said something like that in front of my children,” she allowed. “But to say a variance of a word is off-limits because of somebody’s skin tone? That’s just a weird way form of gatekeepin­g. If a Black mother was using these words, wouldn’t it be child abuse, too?”

The self-proclaimed “MAGA brat” had previously posted an Instagram video where she fought with a city bus driver who emptied his vehicle when Denaro (inset) refused to wear a mask as required.

The bakery worker, 30, recounted his polite request Sunday for her to put on a mask, even noting she perhaps just forgot to wear one. “She replied ... ‘Why should I?” he recounted. “I replied, ‘With those answers I will not be able to serve you.’ ... Then she said, ‘You are a b—— ass N-word.’ ... She said it a lot.”

Security escorted her out, and the bakery stood up for its worker in a Facebook post. “We want to commend our employee on his handling of the sad incident ...,” the post reads.

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