The most retweeted post on Twitter in 2021 was a letter condemning the anti-Asian discrimination and hate crimes of the Kpop group BTS, Twitter announced on December 9.
BTS released a Twitter statement with the title ‘Stop Asian Hate’ after anti-Asian hate crimes were on the rise in the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March.
The post has been retweeted more than 1 million times and liked by 2.5 million people.
Hate crimes against Asians began shortly after the coronavirus was first reported in China.
Mainly, former US President Donald Trump has promoted anti-Asian crimes by referring to COVID-19 as the ‘Chinese virus.’
Since then, anti-Asian crimes have been on the rise in the US. For example, hate crimes against Asians surged from 12 in 2019 to 98 in 2020, according to the Vancouver Police Department, British Columbia, Canada.
BTS said in a Twitter statement, “We have experienced discrimination that has made us powerless and has lowered our self-esteem. We firmly opposed to racism. We condemn violence. You and I and we have the right to be respected. We will work together.”
Since then, the public has received the statement well and retweeted it many times.
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