> Just this week the BTS (a K-Pop band) fandom in Germany wanted to cancel radio host over a remark they deemed racist. I can’t remember the last time 14 year o

> Just this week the BTS (a K-Pop band) fandom in Germany wanted to cancel radio host over a remark they deemed racist. I can’t remember the last time 14 year old boys initiated an outrage mob. This is a bizarre take given the actual remark. This would've been widely condemned regardless and the overall reaction to this has nothing to do with the age of the fans of BTS. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/eleanorbate/bts-german-radio-host-coronavirus-racism-apology https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/eleanorbate/bts-german-... > "Dear teenagers who are listening: Please take no offense," Matuschik said, per a translation uploaded to YouTube. "But personally, I think that BTS is... Let me put it like this: BTS is like SARS." > "It's an abbreviation for some fucking virus that we'll hopefully have a vaccine for soon as well," he continued. > Matuschik went on to argue that he has "nothing against South Korea," and couldn't be called xenophobic because he owns a South Korean car. (According to Teen Vogue, one look at Matuschik's now-deleted Instagram account showed photos of his Daihatsu Copen, which is made in Japan.) > "These little suckers brag with their cover of 'Fix You' by Coldplay," he said. "To which I respond: That's blasphemy... For doing that, you should have to spend a 20-year-long vacation in North Korea."