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As the mass of bullying allegations takes over Korean entertainment news, a German radio station host decided to throw racism in the mix, with Matthias Matuschik making various dogshit remarks about BTS.
An account dedicated to anti-Asian discrimination in Germany tweeted about the incident, which a normal person probably would’ve seen as a sign that they’ve fucked up, but he then replied with what made it far worse.
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Leaving aside the fact that his comparison between Milli Vanilli and Kevin Spacey is extremely stupid, he misses the point, thinking this is just about his take on BTS.
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The account against discrimination proceeds to responds by correctly calling him out for ignoring the point, and then skewers his silly logic.
After an understandable mass of backlash, a mealy-mouthed statement was released.
Yeah, no. I always defend people who get harassed, doxed, or whatever else just for expressing an opinion on K-pop as music or idols or the industry. That’s always fair game to me for obvious reasons.
But this is just him being a racist piece of shit, and doing stuff like relating BTS to COVID-19 is especially vile with all the anti-Asian hate that’s spreading around the world at the moment. The fact that he responded to an anti-Asian discrimination group and completely ignored that aspect of this is especially telling, as is him addressing his apology to BTS fans. Because while, yes, he’s being a dick to BTS, it goes beyond them and onto fostering even greater hate and violence onto Asians at a time when that’s the last thing we need. I dunno if I’m being sensitive or whatever, as I usually probably tolerate more than I should, but given that my Asian-American news feed is full of Asians being attacked, I’m done with this shit, man.
Update
They have since made separate further apologies.