The Reg’s Deepa Bharath asked, and the Bolsavik answered, here. Excerpts:
Q: After the protests erupted and you were fired, did you regret your decision?
A: No, I’ve never regretted it. However, in hindsight I think I should’ve run it with an editor’s note, explaining the context of it all. But otherwise, I would do it all over again.
The interview is online now and apparently will be in print tomorrow Saturday.
If you’re new to this blog, you can click on the tag “Nguoi Viet” to the right (like this) and get all prior entires on this subject.
A copy of the photo in question is shown below. The photo accompanies artist Chau Huynh‘s article, in which she related that her late mother-in-law, 
a refugee from South Vietnam, worked as a nail salon worker, not as a pedicurist but only as a worker who prepared people’s feet in that spa. Still, with what little money she made, she raised a family, sent her son to college, even paid for her daughter-in-law’s (the artist) college education.
The yellow-and-red-stripes color on the spa is the color of the flag of South Vietnam. The red power plug cover, to the Bolsavik, represents the communism from which the refugees escaped, but it has been interpreted to mean that communists have the power. Or something like that.
Read more about artist Chau Thuy Huynh here.
After reading about the protesters protesting against art work, against TCS music, against freedom of expression, against freedom of speech, against red color, against singers, against writers, etc., I am really at a loss! Perhaps these protesters have suffered from a combination of ignorance, lack of education, mental illness, irrationality, immorality, etc., or maybe they don’t have any grey matter in their brains! -Tien Huynh
I am Trac Vu’s niece and i am shocked! I can not wait to speak to you tomorrow!
See you tomorrow!
Zora