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Simu Liu Criticizes Look-Alike Segment During NBA All-Star Weekend

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0:00 thank you [Music] all right so this thing is going around right now and it has a lot of people feeling many different emotions um I even asked the JK followers on the Instagram we did a poll to see who thinks this is racist and who thinks it's fine and it's almost split right down the middle so you guys let me know um simulu went to a game no I know what this is I know what this is and the Jumbotron showed the simulu look like and they just pointed it at a random age it's fun you funny dude like look at the guy look at the guy look-alikes they always don't Matt yeah that's that's the most popular uh response is that they do it to everyone they do that all the time everybody

0:50 right but it's funny because see who reposted this it was not happy about it people who reposted this and said I had a fun time but this wasn't cool bro the kid is looking at the screen he's like I look like that you know like Avenger now dude that's the other side I I look like ████ Shang Chi thanks for saying that that's the other thing uh simu's response was like I don't look like him is that is that how people are taking it as like I think he I think he knows he doesn't look like him but I think what he's saying is it's like it's like pick a random Asian guy and that looks like you saw that picture I thought that was Freddie Wong but can I say something too though yeah yeah have you guys been to Disneyland like the new side of this like The Avengers yeah yeah they got like an Asian dude walking around playing and

1:40 like to be fair he's supposed to look like him but he doesn't look anything like him right he's just another Asian Star-Lord it's just a random white guy when he is dressed up he definitely looks a lot more like him than 31 definitely that's the thing that the thing you said though is is really good I'm glad you said uh how does that kid feel yeah what about him that kind of sucks that he dip he's like really dunking on that kid too and also she's on sorry SEMA was on another level now like he's on he's a ████ action figure bro like he's the face for a lot of people to be like oh you are the man what that is true like you're the standard you're you're just like Chadwick to a lot of people's eyes and he sells stock photos back that's what I'm saying so what's that what is it like people think it's racist because they just found another random Asian guy in the crowd so people it's racist because it

2:32 perpetuates that thing of like okay just not being able to tell Asians apart and just basically pointing it at some assuming Asian kids it's acceptably hilarious racism look bro everybody there's a spectrum to this ████ you know you can't be ████ cookie cut and clean everything's ████ perfectly not racist or racist right they got Vin Diesel right and they go to a bald guy exactly like it's like it's part of the bit like it's it doesn't matter you know it's not that big of a deal you think they're more careful with this about other races than Asians I I do think that this place I do think that simu and shangshi specifically in this generation though like because he maybe also has to he feels that he has to hold that flag of representation yeah in in a time frame that is very sensitive and like hyper like focused on certain things like that I think it push puts him in a

3:23 position where like it's not so easy to just be like ah you know that's funny he might have to say something he might feel like compelled to speak at the moment a teachable moment yeah so I can I can maybe see that it's got to be tougher for him that's 11. but it's funny as ████ dude but like if a picture of simu had glasses then they could go to that guy but that guy really doesn't look anything but whatever no other Asians in the arena yeah you know they're like going around and they're like wrong campaign to be done dude if you got no other Asians at the All-Stars but what if you have to do a celebrity look like with each one of the players yeah right because he was at the All-Star game and then they got to go every single one for one minute there should have been a judgment call where some somebody was like we could pull the plug on one of the races what what city is this in supposed to be this is Phoenix Right Salt Lake City hang on Salt Lake

4:13 City why does it even matter why does it even matter because that's the type it is the Salt Lake City if it's in Utah Utah yeah is there that many Asian people in Utah there's got to be Asians in Salt Lake City there's ages everywhere but literally there's a lot of white people in Salt Lake City that's what I'm saying like there's way more whites out there okay listen to this response from a guy named Ben who got a blue check so he got eight bucks he said he said I think it's half funny and half annoying because of the just disrespectful Asians look like trope also simu kind of annoying so it's kind of funny I grew up I didn't grow up with the hell of Asians right yeah when I moved to the sgv I was like damn dude Asians do look

5:04 alive it's true but also you could say that about most races I think what it is is if you didn't grow up if you didn't grow up with them like when you're just in a new group right and it's like all Mexican all black you just feel like yo what the ████ you guys look like one group of people damn they look like look at all right look at all the ████ photos that JK fans and stuff be sending Ryan to repost they're like you you can't tell me this isn't Steve right yeah so it's like photos of people more me or Nick right yeah the ████ the guy from the US see the ████ uh roses Edward that guy's back he'd say I look like him and I'm like okay ████ I guess the game wrong half the people they sent me

5:54 Remember When vitalik butaran the ethereum founder yeah everybody went on Twitter means and stuff and I was like this is like ████ Tom Brady on meth or some ████ yeah you remember that ████ and he got mad and and no it was going crazy and then Tom Brady ████ went on Twitter reposted that and was like Hey man you're a good looking dude and like gave him props for you love your stuff that's cool I think simu could have had this opportunity you're right he had this opportunity too instead of being like yo everything was fun but this wasn't cool that you made this guy look like me I mean look at this fool you're dunking on this floor yeah you're done it kind of feels like you compare me to this yeah he could yeah just found my next Double yeah stunt double like that could have been an opportunity to to clown you could he could have clowned on the situation and clown on the racism while still putting our people up in that way it does feel a bit insecure

6:45 when you're like I'm being compared to that instead of like yo we're a team yeah we're a ████ team you know you're a kid bro you know yeah like Kevin feige signed this ████ up you know what I mean like could have been ways to clown on this expression it's pretty funny though it's like what yeah he's like Starry Eyed man yeah man half the people that JK Finn sent me are Indian they don't even Filipino they say you look like a bunch of Indians yeah they sent me hella Indian people or Bollywood at them you never repost them you only repost ours yeah what the ████ dude conspiracy right because it makes those Indie guys look bad oh I get it like I think it's great I think it's funny like I mean that's that's another thing it's like if you grew up never really seeing this as an issue and it was always a joke growing up yeah seeing it as an adult you're like that's not bad you know whatever I think everyone gets jokes bro yeah at

7:35 the end of the day everyone gets joked on and that's it has to be a whatever guy does this change the situation if the guy operating the camera was Asian it's funnier to find out open a generation where Asians weren't even on the radar this to me is cool right yeah like like they wouldn't even be able to pull up an actor they could show that's a conversation it would just either be a white celebrity look-alike or a black celebrity look like or maybe a Hispanic one like the fact that we even have one that's cool the fact that we have a whole movie based on an Asian like a Chinese superhero is crazy and it that it did well and we only got like very very few so it's kind of like we got to be forgiving like everybody look like shauncey right because we only got like one shot sheet we don't have like 60 different ████ Asian superheroes for this it was Bruce Lee yeah and then whether you were a fat ████ Asian or

8:26 a skinny ass asian yeah or bald it doesn't matter everyone calls you Bruce Lee whereas if if I'm I'm obviously Asian if I just see a black person on TV I'm like hey that kind of looked like Michael Jordan I can see how that's kind of racist like this is a ████ ████ up people out there you know what I'm saying that's you didn't have to say that yeah you could be Eddie Murphy you could be you could be Holyfield but you know it would be a little bit more understandably racist if we did that because again there's like there's like 50 different types of you know what I mean like black celebrities that we are so iconic that we could be like you can't say this just looks like generic this right but we only got two or three Asian guys out there of course everybody's gonna fall under one of them Shang Chi and Glenn from Walking Dead yeah and Bobby Lee and Bobby Lee yeah which at the end of the day I can

9:16 understand how all of them look the same in some weird way but who's yeah yeah it doesn't also help that everybody in entertainment is Korean so that everyone's just thinking Asians look like Koreans or we're all Korean you know or we're all in physical 100. it's not even as bad as when like Samuel Jackson was on that Morning Show and the broadcaster thought he was Lord's Fishburne someone else this is just like relating to things right and that's part of the joke when jokoy did that when he was like Lawrence L fishberg yeah yeah that's like this isn't to me this is almost like a more tame thing like at least there's someone they can show at all like that's dope no now

10:08 shimu is included in the same thing that all the other races and all the other actors are now we get to be in the game he's the punchline because it's like he is the standard now he's the Asian standard in America's eyes which is a big ████ deal dude do you think Bruce Lee would speak up if they did that to some other random kid in the crowd Bruce Lee would be like he might know he wants people like that he write a script though about it and then you ████ make a movie and whoop every white person's ass dude and there were a bunch of fake Bruce Lee's already making movies exactly exactly exactly I think it's a compliment in a lot of ways yeah for sure again I I like seeing in general I think his back is in a different corner and he's got to be the first but that I would love for him to do better I would I would love for him to do better because there's so few of them is all you know what I mean what you said though that's true he could have like done a big up for this kid yeah yeah but instead he just said not cool I don't

10:58 really like this ████ and he's not wrong he's not wrong it's just funny yeah he it really does say he just said I had a great time but this wasn't cool [Music] mm-hmm [Music]

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