YouTube has decided to remove YG’s controversial video for “Meet The Flockers” after nearly a week of deliberation. The move comes as Asian-American and Pacific Islander hate crimes surge across the United States, especially among the elderly, as people desperately cramble to find someone to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The song is included on YG’s 2014’s Krazy Life album and centers on robberies that take place in Asian neighborhoods. Several YouTube staffers at Google demande its removal last week, but the video sharing giant was initially hesitant to pull the plug for fear it would cause a cascade of other videos that would call for removal.
According to Bloomberg, an internal disagreement at the company started after some YouTube employees asked YouTube’s Trust & Safety team to take it down, but an executive from that department and another content policy leader denied the request in an email to staff on March 22.
“We find this video to be highly offensive and understand it is painful for many to watch, including many in Trust & Safety and especially given the ongoing violence against the Asian community,” the executives wrote. “While we debated this decision at length amongst our policy experts, we made the difficult decision to leave the video up to enforce our policy consistently and avoid setting a precedent that may lead to us having to remove a lot of other music on YouTube.”
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The email continued, “YouTube has an open culture and employees are encouraged to share their views, even when they disagree with a decision,” a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement. “We’ll continue this dialogue as part of our ongoing work to balance openness with protecting the YouTube community at large.”
The Atlanta shooting at three different spas on March 16 resulted in the death of eight people, including six Asian-American women. An elderly Asian woman was also attacked in San Francisco the following day, but she was able to fight off her attacker. The victim suffered an injury to the side of her face and eye and was seen holding an ice pack to her face. Police said both the assailant and the victim were taken to a hospital for treatment.
This dude is 10% racist cancel him!
it is pretty bad ass when an asian woman is firing a handgun like that. argh just let any asians deal to him they won’t kill you they will silence you in your sleep.
So its ok to say the n word and talk about black hate on these platforms but because some mentally ill token negroes beat up mamasan and mr miyagi, we are supposed to sympathize and rally around them? Sheep.
Lol black people are the most racist towards Asians. They just can’t live in a world where they can be called racists instead of them calling others racists.
Fuck off you tosser you talk shit how can black people be the most racist to asains
If white people killed an estimate of 100 million plus Asian world wide
1000s on crime happen each on blacks,whites, asians, hispanics, etc. why is the media only focused on the attacks on asians? All crimes should should be condemned
I haven’t heard the record but if this article is in anyway real, that’s fucked up on YG part for robbing an Asian neighbourhood in his lyrics. Lol. On the real tho, I condemn all violence towards the elderly regardless of skin color. Dumb mafuckas hating on people coz of fuck shit that’s happened in their countries of origin, they weren’t there when that shit happened, they didn’t cause the fuckshit. Leave these people alone and stay in your own lane with your mask on
The irony of this debate is the “Asian community ” tried to get this song banned 7years prior but NOBODY would listen. Now YouTube trying to be ” fake woke” wants to ban it after 7 years? So was this song the blueprint to “asian hate”? What about the movies showing people killing asians? This is complete bs but hey when it’s a movement going on got to follow or loss bucks.
When one victim group is challenged by another victim group! Time to be called out on your racism black ppl!
Good, bro. Why y’all acting like this shit is aight? Asians don’t do shit to anybody and they’re getting ran up on like crazy in NYC and other cities. It’s fu**ed up, and fit some reason it always gets a pass. Black people are racist asf toward Asians and always deflect it and bring up Chinese food stores in the hood and how they don’t give back and all that bullsh** but it’s just to justify their hate. Even in these comments you got some idiot like “Oh I’m supposed to feel bad for Manasab and Mr Miyagi when my people been oppressed for years?” See? It’s just that corny sh** y’all stay on why no one really respects you.