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Simu Liu's 'racist' look-a-like choice from NBA All-Star Weekend put on blast by Twitter: 'This wasn't cool'

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Actor Simu Liu isn't happy about a controversial celebrity look-a-like camera comparison from NBA’s Celebrity All-Star game on Friday that some say perpetuated the problematic "all Asians look alike" stereotype. "I had a great time but this wasn't cool," he tweeted of the incident Friday, sharing a post with a screenshot of the fan side-by-side with an image of himself on the jumbotron.

Many argued that the fan looked nothing like the 33-year-old Canadian star of Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings."  Liu continued in the thread, clarifying that his problem was with the cameraman and not the NBA. "To be perfectly clear the entire org and ops team surrounding all-star have been nothing but absolutely stellar to myself and all my friends.

this was just one person with a camera. and no disrespect to my man in the videotron either! he's gorgeous we just don't look alike." Twitter was quick to react to the allegedly stereotypical comparison, however, blasting the comparison as racist.  "'Let’s pick random Asian dude' smdh," one user wrote. "Another typical L for the Utah Jazz organization," producer and entrepreneur Dave Lu tweeted, adding in a separate post, "Or just another typical racist L for the state of Utah." "Yeah, that’s f---ed up," actress Kim Horcher wrote in the thread, and actor Mark Ghanimé sounded off by writing, "That’s a hell no." One user explained the controversy in his tweet, writing, "The issue here is that they have no similar characteristics other than being Asian.

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