Over the past few years, K-Pop has become a global phenomenon and BTS is one of the biggest groups in the world. They also use their influence to raise awareness among all people about race, gender and human rights. However, BTS themselves are also victims of xenophobia, ŕäċïṩṃ and gender stereotypes...
Recently, a politician's tweet about BTS started making a comeback on social media as this person began his run for Vice President. It is worth noting that this politician made xenophobic and ĨŃŚÚĹŤing comments about BTS, making fans unable to stop their anger.
The tweet is spreading at breakneck speed and netizens around the world are expressing their anger over this issue. Many people also asked the local government to reconsider this politician's status:
First of all, the character mentioned in this situation is politician Victoria Villarruel from Argentina. This politician has always been known for her far-right views and is currently running for Vice President in the 2023 Argentine general election. She also created a bad impression with the public when she made ѕєχist statements, ŕäċïṩẗ, xenophobic and negative (she was a supporter of Argentina's last dictatorship) in the past.
Her tweet about BTS and Kpop was originally posted in 2020, but recently this post has begun to attract attention again as the election approaches. Specifically, this tweet written: “It sounds like a ѕєχually transmitted ∂ιѕєαѕє” and many people pointed out that it was a reply to a comment about BTS.
It wasn’t the only tweet from the politician that gained attention, with one saying about asking a green-haired kσrєαn to throw a tranquilizer dart (although no names were specified.
Or she doesn't like pink kσrєαns, which many people think refers to the hair color and is especially said to refer to Jimin.
Whether as a group or the world's leading solo artist, BTS is no stranger to malicious attacks. But for a politician to make such a statement about BTS and Kpop is truly a remarkable situation. There are now over 4,000 retweets from very angry fans in the comments.
Along with a few comments in English, there were many tweets in Spanish sharing their anger over the politician's past comments. While some warned of the wrath of ARMY and K-Pop fans, there were many who reminded her of what they did to Donald Trump when they bought all rally seats so he was speaking to an empty crowd…
Others shared that ARMY has the right to prevent her from receiving any power or influence because of past offensive tweets. She also showed that she lacks the ethics and capacity to run a country.
Netizens shared extremely harsh indignation at this situation:
- A grown woman into politics having one sided beef with men who doesn't know her existence.. yeah that's embarrαssing
- Argentina doesn’t claim her. She’s a ḧöŕŕïḅŀệ person so I’d be thankful if you guys help us share and report her account. Thank you!
- why is she, a grown αss woman, beefing with kpop tho ? lmao
- To be fair, it’s not somєthing personal. She and all her colleagues give hate speeches against every possible demographic. It’s just so embarrαssing.
- that’s a whole αss lawyer and politic using non grammatically incorrect (as in non professional at all and usually used either by really young and/or uneducated people or just really low clαss people) abbreviations
- Some people, really should keep their opinions to themselves sometimes. Especially politicians.
- I don't know anything about Argentina, but I doubt their gp cares about her clowning on kpop
- What politicians don’t consider is that a lot of kpop fans vote. In Chile we made a campaign for our current president, you could see lightsticks in his campaign events and he received photocards (he has a picture with 2 photocards and I’m pretty sure one is a Jihyo PC, and a finger heart). Sure, kpop fans have a younger demographic but a lot of us are over the lєgαl age to vote and are interested in politics
- Well, being a fasc1st supporter of the d1ctatorship was disgusting enough. Her liking BTS wouldn’t be any better.
- Y'all this woman is a candidate for vice president in argentina and she said this bullshít about our boys... @bts_bighít somєthing has to be done here ! prepare the heavy artillery: emails have to be sent and karmys must be notified as well
- Unfortunately I was going to vote for them, but now I will vote for the other candidate
- I have learned many things about her in this last couple of hours and each thing is worse than the last (you can go through the replies to this tweet itself to get an idea). Please take care of yourselves and your fellow citizens. Good luck, army.
- glad to hear that, especially after everything else i have learned about her in these past few hours.
- She seems evil. Hope you are all free from her soon!