It didn’t take long for the fangs to come out to try to bring down Bong Joon Ho who celebrated an historic four Oscar wins Sunday night.
Not long after the South Korean accepted his first award, best original screenplay, Blaze TV host Jon Miller tweeted “these people are the destruction of America.” Apparently hearing someone speak in Korean proved too much for Miller to handle as he complained Bong gave most of his acceptance speech in his native language while using an English interpreter.
That tweet has so far garnered 20,000 likes and 5,500 retweets. Fortunately, it’s also attracted quite a number of comments pushing back on the vile bigotry.
“This racist tweet will not age well,” commented @actorsforYang.
“Xenophobia is a hell of a drug,” added @slpng_giants.
“No, white racists are the destruction of America. I don’t see any Koreans parading down our city streets Nazi -style, holding assault weapons, and threatening ethnic & racial groups,” wrote @musicaamazigh.
Even 10-time Grammy winner John Legend chimed in.
“Do they pay you for these dumb takes or is this something you do for fun,” he remarked on Twitter, generating nearly 28,000 retweets and 164,000 likes. That’s 8-times more than Miller received.
Bong also won for best picture, best director and best international film.
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