Just when you think the world can’t get madder, it does. The SMAge (where else?) reports:
Actor and writer Michelle Law, who led the social media charge against Sydney Film Festival’s prize-winning short Mukbang, has apologised for a “racist” scene that “depicted dangerous stereotypes” in a film she wrote.
Law issued an “apology without reservation” for a scene in her 2013 short film Bloomers that showed a white girl and boy and an Asian girl putting ash on their faces while performing an “ancient Mayan ritual” to bring on menstruation.
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