Radio personality asks the host of the ABC’s new podcast about race insulting questions,including ‘What’s the deal with Asians?’ and ‘Are they all the same?’The ABC has apologised for airing an interview in which Melbourne breakfast radio host Red Symons asks the ABC journalist Beverley Wang whether she is yellow.
The network removed the interview from its website on Friday after an outcry over Symons’s comments. Related: Ten's morning host looks down the barrel to plead for media law change | The Weekly Beast This and other questions Red Symons asked me
Listen: https://t.co/aS4Lmtn3hs pic.twitter.com/4oZq5QeWdj Related: More than the N-word: how a 'tense' Paul Beatty interview raises bigger questions | Steph Harmon Chrissakes. When a main ABC radio personality asks an Asian colleague "are you yellow?" we have a problem https://t.co/cS2ms3mxLb Related: ABC's Michelle Guthrie: I was never a 'Murdoch hatchet woman' I say this as a friend of Red Symons: this is audio he never imagined would see the light of day. repulsive, but in its way private. i'm uneasy.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com