And yeah, the defensive netizen response is revolting. But utterly unsurprising. To be fair, I had students who didn’t get what was wrong with this stuff till we talked about it as part of a class, with readings, discussion, and watching a film (Spike Lee’s Bamboozled). Even after watching it, I had students who insisted (a) that the “yellowface” in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was “wrong and offensive and racist” but who insisted blackface in Korea media was totally fine. Some people will refuse to learn. But lots did come around, once informed.