THE Los Angeles Times recently reported on the outcry following the LA theatre community’s Ovation Awards, where organisers mispronounced the name of an Asian American nominee and displayed a photo of the wrong actor. One reader said the Ovation reaction was just an example of “Asian victimhood”. The Ovation Awards’ snafus – and some of our readers’ reactions to the news coverage of them – are emblematic of the casual racism in the world. The name is perceived as particularly difficult only because it’s beyond the white European names that have been deemed “normal”. Amid an unprecedented closure due to Covid-19, so many theatre companies have released statements to their patrons, declaring that Black Lives Matter and that violence against Asian American Pacific Islanders is unacceptable.

Source: The Star April 11, 2021 00:11 UTC