Cho Chang & the Gaslighting of Racist Online Abuse

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I want to talk about the recent discussion around about Harry Potter actress Katie Leung recently spoke about the racist online harassment that she faced after being cast in the series, and how she was told to keep it quiet. I think it is incredibly important to highlight what she had to say, especially given a lot of the current conversations that we need to be having around harassment and violence towards people of color, and especially in this context, those of Asian heritage.
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@yoonmikim5663 3 года назад

I like your work, but giving a slight heads up as an East Asian in solidarity... India is in Asia as well, and there were Indian characters in the form of Parvati and Padma Patil. I know this is an easy error to make, since they never "feature" quite like Cho Chang does in the books, but I thought you might want to be aware of it. The other points are done well, though. I just didn't want the error of saying India isn't in Asia to be repeated.

@liannaxiao1651 3 года назад

As a Chinese woman who also speaks Korean, I remember just sitting there dumbfounded when I saw the name Cho Chang for the first time. It’s literally a Korean last name and a Chinese last name mashes together randomly. No East Asian person would ever name their kid Cho Chang. Not to mention how it sounds like Ching Chang Chong 👀👀 very sus

@Sam_on_YouTube 3 года назад

Thr fact that they changed Lavender's race just before she kisses Ron is just blatantly racist. You have a black character and a white character and a kiss in the text. Uh, oh, can't have that.

@notaspecialist4484 3 года назад

as a half korean kid myself, i can't tell you how many times people in school told me i looked just like cho chang. I didn't, I'm just half asian

@rowan3355 2 года назад

One thing I’d like to add about the treatment of the character of Cho in the fifth film is that they deliberately cut out her best friend Marina who was written to betray Dumbledore’s Army to Umbridge. Rowling even gave this white character a reason (it was because Marina’s mother worked for the Ministry) for snitching so that readers would feel some sympathy towards her. However, in the films they change the person who betrayed Dumbledore’s Army to the ONE Asian person in it. You guessed it, Cho Chang was the student who betrayed them to Umbridge. And did they provide a good reason for it like Marina had? No, all the audience saw was that she had betrayed them because she was cowardly and she no longer deserved to be a part of it, let alone the protagonist’s love interest. The movie literally made the audience turn against this Asian character, which likely contributed to the racism which existed already against Katie herself.

@briestoll 3 года назад

Not the only Asian character. Patel twins. We gotta stop ignoring Indian people in the Asian discussion.

@QuarterMoonRachel 3 года назад

I remember years ago seeing merch that was t-shirts designed to look like the different house Quidditch team jerseys, specifically the seeker's ones. The Gryffindor one had 'Potter' on the back. The Slytherin one had 'Malfoy'. The Hufflepuff one had 'Diggory'. So it's the best known seekers from Harry's time at school, right? No. What did the Ravenclaw one have on the back of it? Freaking 'Lockhart'...

@CaladonianQueen 2 года назад

It's weird looking back and realizing that my childhood hero dumped a girl because she cried too much over her murdered boyfriend. Well how dare she.

@ArielVHarloff 3 года назад

"Harry is the main character that we identify with" is the one thing I will never get about the HP fandom. I don't think I ever identified with Harry as a kid.

@idajyrwa2180 3 года назад

Speaking of Asians, I didn't like how they treated the Patil sisters in the movie. Especially the goblet of fire, like what did they make them wear....could've been so much better

@Sam_on_YouTube 3 года назад

I remember when this happened. People were saying that there are no Asian Scotish people. Even though this actress IS an Asian Scotish person playing a character specifically written to be Asian-Scotish. But you can't really expect more than that from racist idiots.

@TheDawnofVanlife 3 года назад

I will say in the book, Cho Chang was at least more than some cute girl Harry liked. She was a great athlete. Like with many things, JKR dropped the ball hard at the end and buried the character on the sidelines, but she was at least introduced as this cool smart athlete who happened to be a young Asian woman. All the Harry Potter movies did was make her the object of Harry's lust. As one of the few Asian characters, while not overtly pornographic, is still a fetishism almost of an Asian young woman wile cutting everything about her character that made her more then some pretty girl Harry liked.

@gozerthegozarian9500 3 года назад

Cho Chang being the only East-Asian representation in HP was treated as Katie Leung's fault, when it was in fact JK Rowling's....because dog forbid anybody ever criticize JKR!

@Laladust 3 года назад

The Patil sisters really left a sour taste in my mouth for the films.

@maijashea 3 года назад

How did people not “imagine” Cho Chang as Asian in the books? Like it could not have been clearer. That’s on you baby, don’t need to take it out on the actress

@CT_Phipps 3 года назад

I'm not even surprised anymore that "fans" complain about a character named Cho Chang being played by a girl of Chinese descent. When the movies first came out, a fan community I belonged to had a meltdown about how minor character Blaise Zabini was black. Because he'd been used as a love interest in their fanfics and, well, they were all racist as fuck.

@det.bullock4461 3 года назад

Apparently many of the non white casting in the HP movies got this backlash, but being racist when they cast an asian for the character that was explicitly asian in the book is just a whole other level of mind-numbingly stupid: "I'm not racist, I just think that a character named Cho Chang is very evidently white" 🤦‍♂️

@jolan_tru 3 года назад

Those people who say:

@turjun 3 года назад

I definitely did not like the way Harry treated Cho. It is the real shame both the character and the actress playing the character cannot get treated properly.

@lorelei_lee 3 года назад

The German reader of the Harry Potter audio books - Rufus Beck - even chose to read Cho Chang with the stereotypical mispronouncation of the r-sound - it is horrible to listen to and I'm dumfounded nobody saw a reason to stop that!