Chris Willman Music WriterYouTube is declining to ban a video by hip-hop artist YG containing anti-Asian lyrics, despite a drive among staffers to have the song, “Meet the Flockers,” removed from the platform.The rapper’s 2014 song is about how to pull off a burglary and begins with a verse recommending Asians as the easiest targets for a home invasion: “First, you find a house and scope it out / Find a Chinese neighborhood / ‘Cause they don’t believe in bank accounts.” (“Flockers” is slang for thieves.)Amid the current wave of attention to anti-Asian bias and violence, eated comments on YouTube company message boards led to YouTube leaders agreeing to hold a town hall over the matter on Thursday, according to a Bloomberg news report.
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