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Love Island USA Contestant’s Racial Slur Sparks Controversy

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Last updated: July 10, 2025 5:34 am
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What’s been most upsetting to Asian American viewers of Love Island USA is how disregarded their expertise with the phrase has been by different viewers. Whereas some are taking it as a teachable second, others are rating the slur as one which’s “not that dangerous.” 

“I’ve a principle that the folks attempting to justify Cierra saying a slur in opposition to Asian those that I’ve been known as many instances rising up, completely used it many instances and are attempting to make themselves really feel higher and search assurance from others that it’s OK. It’s not and it’s disappointing,” wrote Korean magnificence influencer Kim Horne on Threads.

Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American research at San Francisco State College, thinks some are snug utilizing the time period as a result of they don’t know any Asian People. A examine carried out by the Asian American Basis this 12 months discovered that 1 in 4 People report having no major relationship with an Asian American, highlighting the invisibility of the group.

Jeung additionally thinks folks could also be extra snug utilizing racist language now that President Donald Trump has normalized mocking and deriding folks of shade and immigrants.

“Analysis has proven that his use of the time period ‘Chinese language virus’ exacerbated anti-Asian hate through the pandemic,” Jeung informed HuffPost. 

Regardless of the ugliness the Love Island USA controversy uncovered ― sending a actuality TV star’s household demise threats for a years-old Instagram publish is past the pale ― Kim is glad persons are a minimum of speaking concerning the wrongness of phrases like “chink.” 

“As somebody who grew up listening to these slurs with out anybody acknowledging they have been flawed, I discover it vital that Ortega and Escobar are being held accountable,” she mentioned. “The extra we educate ourselves and each other, the higher outfitted we’re to unlearn the racist language we’ve inherited.”

This text initially appeared on HuffPost.

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