SNL's Bowen Yang calls Megan Amram's offensive tweets "explicitly anti-Asian"

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"Hello! I’ve been asked by lots of people to talk about the Megan Amram tweets which, in addition to being ableist and anti-Semitic, were explicitly anti-Asian; thematically, even," tweeted Yang, whose hiring last year as Saturday Night Live's first Asian-American cast member was overshadowed by fellow newcomer Shane Gillis' anti-Asian slurs. "They were shocking to read, but not surprising to the extent that Asians have always been one of many cheap curios in the gilt cabinet of Western humor (uh oh I should apply to grad school and go OFF). Some people think joking about a subordinate race is the edgiest, riskiest move there is, but I stupidly think it’s the least transgressive comedic exercise that amounts to doing a boring, warmed-over kickflip while affirming the racial hierarchy laid out by a Swedish botanist from the 1700s. It’s skateboarding for a man in a powdered wig! Pathetic." Yang  also addressed how letting someone’s racist behavior “slip through” is “objectively bad, painful, and traumatizing.”