‘Beef’ Creators’ Statement Regarding David Choe’s ‘Rapey Behavior’ Comment Isn’t Enough, Asian American Activist Says

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a statement to Variety that reaffirmed Choe’s 2017 apology in which he said the story was fictitious. The trio also deemed the story “undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing.”“The story David Choe fabricated nine years ago is undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing.

We do not condone this story in any way, and we understand why this has been so upsetting and triggering. We’re aware David has apologized in the past for making up this horrific story, and we’ve seen him put in the work to get the mental health support he needed over the last decade to better himself and learn from his mistakes,” they said, per Variety.But Fang, founder and editor of the Asian American blog Reappropriate, who has been critical of Choe in the past and blogged about Choe’s story when it was first released in 2014, says this recent statement is simply not enough.“I don’t think the 2017 apology or this statement do enough to address how violent, misogynistic, and anti-Black the original remarks were or how his subsequent excuse of ‘art’ only perpetuates how society delegitimizes stories of r*pe and discourages victims from coming [forward],” Fang wrote in a Twitter thread Friday.

Fang goes on to demand that Choe and the show’s creators actively engage in the discussion surrounding rape culture.“I think I would like to see efforts – by Choe and producers of BEEF – to actually speak openly, honestly and at-length about how this whole thing illustrates how intertwined toxic masculinity is with sexual violence.