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

[sakurahanabira]

3 hours ago, Solfa said:

Having lived in many countries, including the US, racism is rampant everywhere. US simply talks about it more and there is a social stigma against it. In most countries racist and sexist remarks are normalized part of everyday conversation. Random racist comments make the news in the US and therefore internationally, but in other countries? Life just goes on. 

That doesn’t justify the treatment of BTS though. It’s just a comment on the state of discussion about racism around the world. 

This. I've seen European PoCs on Reddit say that racism is worse over in Europe than in the US because it gets downplayed over there or treated as not a big deal. Meanwhile racism and anything related to it like white supremacy is constantly being called out in the US especially on social media, and is how movements like BLM and StopAsianHate are a thing here.

But anyway I really don't know what the company was even thinking? Like there's a whole movement going on right now in the US about the unjust violence against the Asian American community especially towards the elderly and they choose to portray them as...beaten up? It's so horribly tone deaf. Even without the StopAsianHate/HateIsAVirus/StopAAPIViolence movement going on, it's still tone deaf and racist. 

Edited March 26, 2021 by melancholic autumn

[sakurahanabira]

4 minutes ago, Rosé's Waistline said:

+1

what an awkward comment by the k-netz when they’re literally still doing blackface

So because some of their people think blackface is okay, you think that South Koreans in general aren't allowed to decry racism. You don't even know whether these Knetz have done blackface or not but you're going to accuse them of having engaged in it? Also I don't think you even understand that racism towards Koreans = racism towards all Asians because other races can't even tell us apart. Why else do you think there's been an uptick in anti-Asian violence ever since the pandemic broke? 

[sakurahanabira]

On 3/26/2021 at 5:32 PM, Jikrytae said:

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.

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.