no, and this is making me particularly twitchy here bc i remember constance wu's comments about blackface.



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What did she say about blackface?

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she said that she preferred to refer to blackface over yellowface bc blackface is more "evocative" and when people called her out on using blackface as a prop, she doubled down and said that the controversy only proved her point that more people cared about blackface compared to yellowface.

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You make it sound like she was dismissing blackface when she was simply pointing out (the truth) that blackface is seen as a LOT more problematic than yellowface. But sure, let's focus on questioning the WOC lead of a movie that'll be making history bc she made a less than stellar comment about an issue that has clearly affected her and plenty of asian actors.

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ya. this whole comparison to black panther rubs the wrong way. can we just do things organically instead of piggybacking on movements by black people once again?

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Embarrassing. Can't non-black minorities ever just STOP this shit?



As an Asian person, this is infuriating.

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As much as I would like to see Crazy Rich Asians, it is definitely not "our" Black Panther. From what I've seen from the poorly edited trailer, it's just a step in the right direction but no way our Black Panther lmao

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Is this a show or a movie ?

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no...



as an asian, i'm excited for CRA and its a step in the right direction but i still have problems with it.



(jenny yang is my fave tho.)

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Yikes



This happened.

Can't wait to see it.

MoA theaters open may 5 yay!

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the film isn't even out yet and people are already doing this shit lmao. I haven't forgotten that one user that decided it was more productive to throw all black people under the bus because there was no asian equivalent to black panther 🙄 hypervisibility is not the fault of black folks but people will jump at any chance to flex their anti blackness

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Let's just have it be enough of a success to get more (American-)Asian actors in mainstream (American) movies, maybe.

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I'm just gonna watch the movie and be excited that it exists. And Constance is front and center of it all.

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i hate that ppl are saying this. it feels very guilt trippy? like there's an expectation for black people to show up for this the way they did BP to ensure its success

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oh boy

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Not shade I saw the trailer and this doesn’t look all that.

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