After Korean director Bong Joon-ho won the Oscar for Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, a conservative host lost his narrow racist mind.
Joon-ho picked up the prestigious award for his work on the 2019 film “Parasite,” a black comedy about greed and class discrimination focusing on a wealthy family’s relationship with a poor family.
Upon taking the stage, Joon-ho expressed thanks and then delivered the rest of his acceptance speech in Korean.
That’s absolutely understandable. After all, “Parasite” is a South Korean film, so it makes perfect sense that Joon-ho would want to speak to his native country.
But a conservative BlazeTV host named Jon Miller couldn’t handle a foreign film winning the Oscar, nor could he handle Joon-ho speaking Korean. So, he launched a typical racist hissy fit.
A man named Bong Joon Ho wins #Oscar for best original screenplay over Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and 1917.
Acceptance speech was: “GREAT HONOR. THANK YOU.”
Then he proceeds to give the rest of his speech in Korean.
These people are the destruction of America.
— Jon Miller (@MillerStream) February 10, 2020
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Then he tried to back away from his racism by claiming that he was talking about Hollywood giving an award to a foreign film, which is still incredibly racist.
“These people” are obviously not Koreans but those in Hollywood awarding a foreign film that stokes flames of class warfare over 2 films I thought were more deserving simply to show how woke they are.That should be clear from the rest of what I tweeted about tonight’s production.
— Jon Miller (@MillerStream) February 10, 2020
His hateful remarks drew backlash, with particularly stinging responses from power couple Chrissy Teigen and John Legend.
Xenophobia is a hell of a drug.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 10, 2020
Do they pay you for these dumb takes or is this something you do for fun
— John Legend (@johnlegend) February 10, 2020
Hey Jon, if you don’t like Koreans:
개 새 끼 꺼 저 라
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) February 10, 2020
That’s a bit of an overreaction. He’s from Korea, let him accept his well-deserved award in his native language.
— Jacob Airey (@realJacobAirey) February 10, 2020
You ok???? You gonna survive this? pic.twitter.com/mOXRvw8cQX
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 10, 2020
Does being a racist ass come naturally to you or did you have to work at it?
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) February 10, 2020
What a dumb fucking tool you are, your family is embarrassed. At gatherings they’re literally like “how’s Jon doing that little dumb fuck tool” and everyone goes “yeah we don’t care he’s a fucking dumb shit” – come say hi if you’re out tonight https://t.co/Smxy2V7qwA
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) February 10, 2020
Miller dug himself a hole and fell on his face trying to climb out of it. Foreign films deserve just as much praise and consideration during award season as American films. Miller should be ashamed of himself and he owes Joon-ho an apology.
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