[NAVER] American card company apologizes for racist portrayal of BTS

[Jikrytae]

How is this racist? It looks like a (crude) criticism of kpop, which isn't inherently racist. Am I missing an important detail here, or is everyone else just being touchy & jumping to conclusions?

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6. [+45, -4] The US no longer feels so amazing to me anymore. They're only rich because they have a lot of land. They no longer represent the standards of a developed country.

Try telling the Russians that. They must be even richer, right? 

[Jikrytae]

23 minutes ago, satoori said:

there's underline racism.

check out the related thread.

I'm still not convinced. Whack-a-mole is often used as a euphemism for futile attempts to get rid of something you don't like, but the "something you don't like" here could just as easily be boy bands, etc. It doesn't have to mean Asians. There's no automatic association with racism like that one tweet suggested. Could the creator have racist motives? Yes, but it's far from guaranteed or obvious.

Also, I strongly suspect that some of the responses to those articles wouldn't have even been written if they had chosen a different group to target.

Edited March 27, 2021 by Jikrytae

[Jikrytae]

On 3/28/2021 at 5:06 PM, melancholic autumn said:

You can agree to disagree but you can't deny that it's incredibly tone deaf considering the current climate in the US where Asians are being attacked for their race. Like this was released just a few days after the Atlanta shooting. You can't pretend that there isn't a coincidence that this was released after that tragic incident. 

Why would I pretend this isn't a coincidence? I'd be much more concerned if it weren't. But this was obviously drawn beforehand. And there's always something happening. Nearly anything can be considered bad timing or tone deaf if you try to link everything with innocent intentions to specific incidents.