From: y12983@mail.ee   
      
   Ubiquitous kirjutas Kolmapäev, 24. juuli 2019 kl 18:43:44 UTC+3:   
   > The MTV Video Music Awards have added a new K-pop category this year, but if    
   > you thought that expansion would please a plurality of BTS fans, think   
   again.    
   > BTS fans have taken to Twitter and other social media to charge that it’s    
   > actually a racist or xenophobic move designed to ghettoize their favorite    
   > group and keep them from competing with other top pop acts.    
   >    
   > Although BTS did get four nominations for the VMAs — best collaboration   
   (with    
   > Halsey), best art direction, best choreography and, of course, an entry in    
   > the new best K-pop category — members of the always active BTS Army are   
   using    
   > hashtags like #VMAsRacist, @VMAsXenophobic and #VMAsAreOverParty to register    
   > their outrage that the combo is not up in top categories like video of the    
   > year, artist of the year or best new artist.    
   >    
   > “You know what… to hell with your racist awards,” said one typical   
   post, from    
   > @jikookdaes. “Note this down, BTS will win the Grammys this year and   
   we’ll    
   > sit and watch them while you’ll have to nominate them for the best new   
   artist    
   > category next year. KARMA IS AN ARMY.”    
   >    
   > “Thank you for introducing the new category ‘best K-pop’ just so Asian    
   > artists don’t mix with westerners & western artists can get the main   
   awards,”    
   > wrote @jeonchaeng97. “You’ve just proven how xenophobia runs in the   
   western    
   > industry’s blood and your racist ass is ugly asF.”    
   >    
   > The premiere of a K-pop category, unique among major music awards shows so    
   > far, doesn’t represent the first time a division has been introduced with   
   a    
   > specific ethnicity or global region of origin in mind. The VMAs have long   
   had    
   > a “best Latin” category — and the Grammys have an entirely separate   
   awards    
   > show devoted to subdividing that area. But some of the BTS soldiers   
   contended    
   > that represents racism, too.    
   >    
   > “Jonas Brothers for AOTY??? LMAO!!! And what the fvck is ‘Latin Pop’   
   and ‘K-    
   > Pop’ category when some of them are literally bigger and outsold your   
   white    
   > artists!!??” posted #vjkish@18. “Aren’t they all freaking Artists who    
   > deserves to be nominated fairly??”    
   >    
   > This wave of disdain doesn’t necessarily mean BTS stans are looking to    
   > boycott the show. “I love how we armys multitask,” tweeted @BTS_0utsold.   
   “I    
   > mean, we will drag @vmas by their racist, raggedy wigs but still vote for   
   our    
   > boys BTS because they deserve every award and we’d love to give it to   
   them.”    
   >    
   > Less displeased about the new category are fans of the other five nominated    
   > acts — Blackpink, Monsta X, Tomorrow X Together, NCT 127 and EXO — who   
   are    
   > presumably excited to see their favorites get some extra attention in being    
   > pitted against the American commercial monster of the bunch.    
   >    
   > Reps for the VMAs could not immediately be reached for comment on the BTS    
   > soldiers’ uprising.    
   >    
   >    
   > --    
   > Watching Democrats come up with schemes to "catch Trump" is like    
   > watching Wile E. Coyote trying to catch Road Runner.   
      
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