A Black woman is speaking. Listen and learn

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all the blame is going to idols who just go to school a few days a year. How are they expected to know about Black history from school?

bruh you don't need to go to school and take some special black history classes to know saying n word is inappropriate.

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We’re talking about Koreans. Those who aren’t into hip hop might not know anything. But those who are in YG, whose whole business is copying black culture SHOULD know it very well, from the CEO to the trainees.

So ahyeon should be cancelled?

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YG should be cancelled for this. These grown ass adults who have appropriated a lot of creativity from the Black community, making millions upon millions, and don't even have the decency to properly educate their trainee.

YG didn't said the n word, ahyeon did. How do you know yg trainers hasn't educated her. Also its not like she grew up in antarctica with no internet connection, korea is a very globally connected country, its very dumb blaming company for a idols personal doing. Blame everybody but not the idol 🤡

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most asian and white fans here just act dismissive towards black culture as if kpop isn't stealing heavily from it

I keep hearing this all the time but I still don't understand what it means. If a non black person doing hip hop music os stealing, then did all the great black guitar and piano musicians stole from European culture, and did Europeans also steal from Middle Eastern culture? Like where do you start the count?

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I keep hearing this all the time but I still don't understand what it means. If a non black person doing hip hop music os stealing, then did all the great black guitar and piano musicians stole from European culture, and did Europeans also steal from Middle Eastern culture? Like where do you start the count?

You gonna get yourself labelled racist...

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Basic logic. Their brains are still developing. Not everyone is born a genius or able to pull knowledge out of their ass. The more experienced/older people had time to learn things. ESPECIALLY these multi-billion dollar corporations that have all the resources to put together classes and coaching for trainees. Just like they can have classes for freaking TikTok, they can have classes for trainees covering music from Black artists who use the n-word and educate them on how and why it's something they should just never say. Period. The buck has to stop from somewhere, and it's at the top. If you want to blame the kid who literally signed their life away for a contract, over the multi-billion dollar conglomerate on failing to do the bare minimum it just shows why the problem continues to happen.

Aheyeon is 16 not 6. You don't need to genius to be using on internet. Bruh just stfu. Its a digital era not the caveman era when you were 16.

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You gonna get yourself labelled racist...

Wouldn't be the first time.

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They are going online to talk shit and watch videos just like you are. They aren't on their phones to learn.

bold of you to assume that im(or like 99.9999% of world population is) on phone/internet to "learn". Just say that you are a racist and stfu.

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s*bal.

shibal

cringe

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YG didn't said the n word, ahyeon did. How do you know yg trainers hasn't educated her. Also its not like she grew up in antarctica with no internet connection, korea is a very globally connected country, its very dumb blaming company for a idols personal doing. Blame everybody but not the idol 🤡

tbh both should be blamed but I still lean on more the company. Because Korea has their domestically grown social media as well and because of social media algorithms and simple language barrier, koreans and americans rarely mix online except for special cases like fanwarring.

Now other idols have been the subject of backlash for saying the n-word too and that is a bit of visibility for that issue but I doubt anyone observing from korean soil would know the depth or seriousness of it without learning at least a good chunk of american history and possibly even the etymology of the word.

The company itself likely has resources to set up PR teams that can do some cultural research and compile a list of dos and don'ts for the idol whereas the idol, without vested interest, would likely not easily come across enough information to put two and two together.

Going to a korean public school too, they would be learning about the US more likely by its effects on korea rather than a good dive into some of the history. This last line is definitely speculation but as a comparison, all I know about korea is the three kingdoms, ww2, then the korean war and now just some articles that come out of korea now. ww2 and the korean war is because of public schooling, the rest came from filtered information that swung by. if you'd ask me to name any of the three kingdoms I'd say one starts with a G and that's about the extent of my knowledge.

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Aheyeon is 16 not 6. You don't need to genius to be using on internet. Bruh just stfu. Its a digital era not the caveman era when you were 16.

Aheyeon is 16 not 25. Brains aren't fully developed by then.

Further what would pique a korean 16 year old's interest in a word that has attained taboo status in only one language? Would she be able to list off the culturally different dialects of english in the first place? would she be able to tell why the word is considered offensive?

Meh, I'm good a black lady holds no special knowledge.