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[Asianjunkie] Simon Wiesenthal Center denounces BTS, based at least partially on questionable info

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As the ongoing mess with BTS spreads internationally through the media, now things from their past are apparently cropping up. In what I can only characterize as a surprise statement, the Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced BTS over what they say is offensive imagery. The title of the statement kinda doesn’t pull any punches.

 

Popular Korean Band Whose Japan Performance Was Cancelled For T-Shirt Mocking A-Bomb Victims, Once Posed With Nazi SS Death Head Symbols, Flew Nazi-Like Flags At Concert

 

Moreover, in the statement they actually call for BTS’s management as well as BTS to apologize to Japan as well as the victims of Nazism.

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced BTS, an internationally popular Korean band whose live performance on Japan TV was cancelled. “Wearing a T-shirt in Japan mocking the victims of the Nagasaki A-bomb, is just the latest incident of this band mocking the past,†charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper. Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO. Members of the band posed for a photo shoot wearing hats with the Nazi SS Death Head logo. The SS was a key component of the Nazi mass murder of 6 million Jews during the WWII Holocaust. “Flags appearing on stage at their concert were eerily similar to the Nazi Swastika. It goes without saying that this group, which was invited to speak at the UN, owes the people of Japan and the victims of the Nazism an apology.†“But that is not enough. It is clear that those designing and promoting this group’s career are too comfortable with denigrating the memory of the past. The result is that on young generations in Korea and around the world are more likely to identify bigotry and intolerance as being ‘cool’ and help erase the lessons of history. The management of this group, not only the front performers, should publicly apologize,†Rabbi Cooper added.

 

As I’ve said before, I agree that the shirt was a shitty look, and people should just admit that instead of desperately trying to defend it with rhetoric that has potentially disturbing consequences. I also agree that BTS definitely fucked up with the photoshoot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

 

That said, half of the incidents cited seem to be false or reaching. For starters, the picture where RM supposedly rocks a swastika apparently isn’t even legit.

 

 

Then there’s the Seo Taiji concert performance, which seems like quite a reach.

 

 

 

I mean I guess if you’re looking for it, I see where they’re coming from. However, the explanations definitely made a lot more sense to me.

 

 

But perhaps the most disturbing part is that the statement cites a nationalist Japanese account as evidence. And unsurprisingly, the people supporting the denouncement are generally nationalist Japanese accounts

 

 

That seems rather telling, and quite disturbing, especially since obviously it was Imperial Japan who was allied with Nazi Germany during World War 2.

 

Personally? I’ve made my feelings on people mindlessly defending the shirt with the atomic bomb on it known, but I also made my feelings on the disturbing reach nationalists have in Japan known as well, and I definitely don’t feel like some kind of official apology from BTS and Big Hit Entertainment to Japan is necessary at all. Additionally, the Holocaust Memorial photoshoot was a serious misjudgment, but it certainly seems like the rest of the rationale for their statement is built on faulty evidence. So while I’m not going to argue that the photoshoot itself isn’t enough for the SWC to demand an apology, I do think their denouncement is something they should at least reconsider after taking in all the information on the situation.

 

Regardless, this seems to be getting out of hand at this point.

 

http://www.asianjunkie.com/2018/11/12/simon-wiesenthal-center-denounces-bts-based-at-least-partially-on-questionable-info/

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Armys, please don't click on the original article, and just email them and BigHit directly about the misinformation

 

edit: Actually DO NOT email the original article organisation. We don't know what's the best approach at this point and possible angry emails is not the way to go. Unless you can be very professional and site sources, refrain from emailing them.

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Bighit should have responded before it became so big. The T-shirt was really wrong to wear but it's blowing up into something bigger than the T-shirt which is really sad.

No. No they shouldn't.

 

They should shut up and stay quiet until this supreme court business is long over.

 

The only thing they need to address is the validity of these Neo-Nationalist porpoganda.

 

But otherwise, no fucking entertainer should be voicing their opinions in between the korean - japan repatriation tiff.

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Can't believe they are believing information coming from nationalistic right wing twitter acounts themselves???

I checked this Center's reputation online and is beyond bad; they are sort of "Nazi hunters" and they found propose and relevancy on the boys
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