Radio Station Apologizes After Host Compares BTS to COVID-19

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A radio station is apologizing after one of its hosts compared BTS to coronavirus and suggested they go to North Korea for 20 years https://t.co/Fo1rdHnZck
- JustJared.com (@JustJared) February 26, 2021
Bayern3‘s Matthias Matuschik called BTS‘s version of Coldplay‘s “Fix You” “blasphemy,”. He suggested the band is “some crappy virus that hopefully

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[inwazyja]

I dislike BTS but this is mega yikes.

[fauxkaren]

First of all, and least importantly, BTS's cover of "Fix You" >>>>>>>>> Coldplay's version.

ANYWAY. On to the important things.

That radio host should be fired. Anti-Asian racism has been on the rise over the past year. Asian people (at least here in the US, but I'm assuming elsewhere in the West) have been getting physically attacked because of racism at a rate that is pretty alarming. So any person with a microphone spreading the kind of rhetoric that fans the flames of anti-Asian racism needs to have that microphone taken away.

And finally, I just want to say that in spite of the racist bullshit that BTS has had to face when breaking into new media markets, I think it's impressive just how international their fanbase is. They really sell out concerts ALL over the world.

[fauxkaren]

TY for making my point for me. The main advantage of BTS's version is you don't have to look at Chris Martin's face.

[undoit]

Idk why this is making me giggle so much but omg

[ladychips]

what the actual hell

[galactoze]

Damn. When I was still living with my parents in munich we listened to that radio station. Always hated the people there.
Never thought I'd read that name here. Trash

[talklikelions]

...how is that NOT racist? Big “I’m sorry if what happened upset you” vibes rather than just “sorry”