BTS Reflects On Anti-Asian Discrimination They’ve Faced Amid Rise Of Hate Crimes, Talk Being 'Mocked For The Way We Look'

“Our community is at an inflection point — recovering from a global pandemic and economic crisis, facing a reckoning with centuries of structural racism, and fighting back against a coordinated assault on transgender children,” Tony Hoang said in a statement. “Equality California has both an opportunity and a responsibility to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ people.” Photo: Equality California.

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“Our community is at an inflection point — recovering from a global pandemic and economic crisis, facing a reckoning with centuries of structural racism, and fighting back against a coordinated assault on transgender children,” Tony Hoang said in a statement. “Equality California has both an opportunity and a responsibility to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ people.” Photo: Equality California.

Ahead of the summer release of Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Moscow’s Dream Island Theme Park has officially opened its new “Hotel Transylvania” attraction. This comes as Transformania, the final chapter in the $1.3B franchise, is due for rollout beginning July 23 in North America and internationally from August 4. It is currently scheduled to hit Russia on August 5.

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Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho recently opened up about Asian hate and called on his fellow filmmakers to speak out and use their medium to respond to the racism and hate directed towards Asian and Black communities. “I’m far away in Korea and I have to see everything in the news from an outsider’s perspective, but as someone who is a part of mankind, as a person, it’s quite fearful to watch the hate crimes against Asian-Americans and the BLM movement,” Bong shared during a virtual masterclass

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Violence against Asian Americans has risen dramatically over the past year. The coalition Stop AAPI Hate has tracked nearly 4,000 incidents of discrimination over the past year alone, as NPR reported earlier this month, though experts and advocates stress that the actual number is likely much higher.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka condemned recent hate crimes against Asian Americans in a Saturday tweet. "If people loved Asian people as much as they love bubble tea, anime, mochi, sushi, matcha etc," the 23-yeard-old champion wrote.