{"id":393262,"date":"2021-04-06T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=393262"},"modified":"2021-04-06T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:28:24","slug":"kareem-abdul-jabbar-urges-hollywood-to-combat-asian-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kareem-abdul-jabbar-urges-hollywood-to-combat-asian-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Urges Hollywood To \u2018Combat Asian Stereotypes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkareem-abdul-jabbar-urges-hollywood-to-combat-asian-stereotypes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=393262&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-605.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Social justice activist and former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has called upon Hollywood to fix its preference for \u201cAsain stereotypes,\u201d from the submissive servant to the math wiz.<\/p>\n<p>In an article for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/kareem-abdul-jabbar-hollywood-must-do-more-to-combat-asian-stereotypes\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> (THR), Abdul-Jabbar recalled his time studying martial arts under Bruce Lee and how the legend \u201cspoke often and passionately about the harmful way Asian Americans were portrayed on television shows and in movies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow having characters like Hop Sing (<em>Bonanza<\/em>) and Hey Boy (<em>Have Gun Will Travel<\/em>) shuffling about happily serving their white bosses gave the impression that Asian males were grateful, sexless servants,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAsian women were generally beautiful, demure, sexy servants in need of protection from the gun-toting white males. Bruce did his best to destroy those stereotypes by becoming the virile action hero in Hong Kong movies that Hollywood wouldn\u2019t let him be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlash forward 55 years and, with a few notable exceptions, the demeaning stereotypes remain and have born bitter fruit: The recent mass murder of Asian Americans in Atlanta is only one of the thousands of racially motivated incidents against the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) community in the past year,\u201d he continued. \u201cFueled by moronic politicians\u2019 references to COVID-19 as the \u2018China virus\u201d or \u2018Kung flu,\u2019 hate crimes against Asian Americans increased in 2020 by 150 percent and, as daily attacks around the country show, it\u2019s only getting worse. Sadly, the most disturbing part isn\u2019t the increase in violence, it\u2019s how little it takes to trigger that violence \u2014 as if attackers are just waiting for an excuse to express their ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abdul-Jabbar said that some misperceptions about Asians could be solved if only Hollywood would put out more nuanced Asian characters. He also calls for the removal of any and all past stories that featured harmful racial stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most egregious ones should be pulled from circulation, and those that have some historical value should come with a warning in the beginning that the content features harmful racial stereotypes, as has been done for films like <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em> that perpetuated dangerous Black stereotypes,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real issue here isn\u2019t just adding more Asian American characters, it\u2019s about the kind of characters portrayed,\u201d he continued. \u201cTwo important areas that are deliberately overlooked by Hollywood are Asian Americans as romantic leads and as heroic leads. Few series dare to have an Asian American man as the object of romantic desire, especially by a white woman (are you listening, <em>Bachelor<\/em>\/<em>Bachelorette<\/em> franchise?). Fewer have Asian American women as leads prized for their intelligence and outspoken strength rather than their svelte figure and flirty smile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abdul-Jabbar cited three shows that he feels treat Asian Americans well: the Cinemax series \u201cWarrior,\u201d \u201cKilling Eve\u201d starring Sandra Oh, and the new Netflix series \u201cThe Irregulars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, portrayals of Asian Americans are often comic-relief sidekicks (<em>House<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Prodigal Son<\/em>), monosyllabic martial arts masters (<em>Wu Assassins<\/em>), homework-loving nerds, or wizened oldsters with fortune cookie advice,\u201d he concluded. \u201cWe need a commitment to produce more varied portrayals of Asian Americans, but also that more of their stories to be told by Asian Americans working behind the cameras, including writers and directors. The problem is when the industry produces a <em>Minari<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>The Farewell<\/em> or Killing Eve, it likes to sit back and relax while congratulating itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social justice activist and former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has called upon Hollywood to fix its preference for \u201cAsain stereotypes,\u201d from the submissive servant to the math wiz.In an article &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311756,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-605.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Urges Hollywood To \u2018Combat Asian Stereotypes\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-605.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Urges Hollywood To \u2018Combat Asian Stereotypes\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}