Casual (and not so casual) racism in the Pitch Perfect movies
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Kimmy Jin, played by Jinhee Joung, is Beca's Korean-American roomate who is very anti-social towards Beca. When she first meets Beca, she doesn't speak, and Beca assumes she doesn't speak English. Which - to be fair - a lot of white people would probably think the same thing. It was racist, but not in a hurful way, in an ignorant way.
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Kimmy Jin continues to be anti-social, but only towards Beca. She is shown at the activities fair talking and laughing with members of the Korean Students club.
And then this little schene when Kimmy Jin comes back to the dorm room to find Beca and Jesse. Kimmy Jin does wish Beca "Happy Spring Break", but other than that she is mostly sulky and antisocial around Beca.
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Cynthia Rose, the black lesbian, played by Ester Dean, is shown as being an "aggressive lesbian", grabbing girls (Stacey) in the first and second movie.
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Donald in Pitch Perfect, played by Utkarsh Ambudkar
Lily Onakuramara, played by Hanna Mae Lee (also a Korean-American actress), can barely speak above a whisper. She is selected as a Bella presumably for her beatboxing skills It turns out in the third movie, that she is inhabited by demons. She says a lot of morbid things in her whisper-voice like: "I ate my twin in the womb", "I set fires to feel joy", "I know how to hide a body." The second movie is mover overtly racist, especially with John and Gail's tone-deaf (pun intended) commentary.
Anyhow I couldn't make posts about the Pitch Perfect franchise without mentioning that some of it is very racist and relies on harmful stereotypes for characters/character development. And maybe that's why these movies are leaving Netflix Canada on February 29th.