Koreans as a whole are not known for being progressive, so V's fake wokeness is of no surprise to me. BT5 are very Korean, as in they only want Korean products and Korean customs, and care nothing for the rest of the world. Even after having lived and travelled outside of South Korea more than once, they still are hyper-fixated on being "Korean only". There's cultural pride, and then there's xenophobia.
And while I have long suspected that YG probably is not xenophobic, he is still associated with BT5 and Hive, therefore he's guilty by association. I do find it interesting that of all the members there are no recordings floating around of YG making comments about someone's skin color. All the other members are definitively guilty of that, there's video record of it, but not of YG. That does not mean he's never done it, could just mean he's never been caught. He might have the sense to keep his mouth shut when the cameras are rolling.
And with this music video, to get back on topic, forced diversity is not diverse. He's only doing this because the younger portion of my generation, and gen z, are obsessed with forced diversity. Taking a movie like Ghost Busters and remaking it as an all female cast, is about the most boring and uninteresting thing that can be done, and also the fakest (Also, Ghost Busters was a perfect movie and required no remake to begin with). Not to mention that remake sucked. Or having Ariel in the recent live action Little Mermaid remake be black, like, okay and...? It's otherwise the exact same movie, just live action and the actor is a phenomenal singer. There are still hundreds of people just as talented as her lined up around the block so it's not even that unique of a thing to have a talented person in a movie.
I love science but I don't love how people treat science like a religion. And I'm not talking about scientology, I'm talking about actual science. Science is not and cannot be a religion. Science is concrete fact and that's that. People who practice religion, view religion as concrete fact, and I very much respect that and do not wish for anyone to change their mind on that.
Most Koreans are Atheist, a significant portion are Buddhist, and a slightly smaller portion are Christian. Buddhism is a very peaceful religion, it is very much about what you put into the world and receive from the world around you. But as you say about people growing spiritually and having a heart, look at how Koreans behave and look at the fact that they are Atheist. It's really not a shock that they are so disrespectful. Unlike Christians who are mean and don't practice what they preach, Atheists absolutely do. Most are anti-religion and it's sickening. With me, I simply don't believe in anything and don't need to dictate what other people believe in. And people are free to be Atheist, but they certainly shouldn't be so hateful. The hypocrisy is vile.
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