"A 17-year-old ... "with tears in his eyes," ...asked the actor to tell Hollywood writers what they do matters and has ramifications on people's lives."

You can't be anti-Asian violence without recognizing how Hollywood perpetuates anti-Asian violence. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/simpsons-actor-hank-azaria-feels-he-needs-apologize-to-every-indian-for-apu

Yes, Apu is just a joke. But you start with Apu and you end with racist violence directed at South Asians. That's the spectrum from "it's just a joke" to all kinds of physical and verbal violence.

I watched SONS OF ANARCHY, 1st episode, recently and it ends with the bikers beating up an Asian Elvis impersonator. For laughs. No relation to the plot. A show with @perlmutations, who I think is a liberal. Anti-Asian violence is okay with liberal Hollywood and always has been.

Time for Hollywood and the comedy industry o recognize its complicity in anti-Asian violence. Making jokes about Asians is okay. See Margaret Cho and Russell Peters, for example. That's different than lazy, demeaning jokes that punch down and insult.

You don't think there's a relation between massive American wars in Asia that kill millions and the pleasure Hollywood takes in making war movies set in Asia that kill thousands of faceless Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians? And now Iraqis and Muslims?

@HankAzaria did the right thing. I'm sure it was difficult. He listened. He learned. He acknowledged. He went public. He apologized. He committed to redressing a past wrong and to prevent future wrong. That's a model of reparative behavior.