@strongduuo for the record, i hope he's not racist. i loved mark! but i also can't ignore what's happened and the bottom line is a 24 hour ig story apology from his label instead of a permanently posted apology by him is not gonna cut it for me
genuinely these conversations are so wild to me bc he's either racist or stupid or both 😭 and also it's lowkey like asking "what predatory behavior did taeil show over the years?". none, to us. because shitty people tend to hide their shitty parts
@strongduuo if you think using black artists & producers as a way to legitimize yourself as a rapper in the western scene means he can't be racist. idk man. i just genuinely do not see how someone from canada & new york would not know the meaning of that flag immediately
@strongduuo curate under his own label he's gonna do things differently. that's assuming the worst (that he is racist & wants that type of fan base). the other possibility is he was genuinely uninformed but it seems like a massive stretch for a kid from canada & new york
@strongduuo unfortunately i'm gonna lean towards it's because he's now got complete control over his image :( very often when you're under a kpop company they'll basically give you personality types to fill. if that personality he's been given doesn't match the audience he now wants to +
i also feel like these types of questions are aiming to address intent and while 99% of the time i am of the mind that intent matters as much as impact, this isn't the 99% of the time because this fuck up, if it was a fuck up, is egregious in its impact
btw this is not even me saying mark is in fact 100% racist. it's me pointing out how goofy it sounds trying to pose questions like this as if it changes what he did at all. the reason people were so blindsided by this is BECAUSE he never showed overtly racist behavior in the past
mingyu, minghao, and youngji playing the word chain game
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🐶 se-ba-kwi (three wheels)
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🐶 of course i know it! it's very fun!
all his fanbases coming together to teach him how to properly apologise for wearing A CONFEDERATE FLAG and send emails demanding it meanwhile he’s just out there sunshine and smiles doing aegyo at the airport…. im afraid you guys are gonna have to pack up this time its over
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korean quotes are talking about Juneteenth, comparing him to Ilbe (their far right/alt-right cesspool website), and saying this is akin to wearing a shirt w the rising sun flag less than a week after Liberation Day so i don't wanna see a single "he didn't know"