Andrew Yang: racist comment by SNL hire ‘should be taken in different light’
Presidential candidate says anti-Asian racism ‘very real’ but US has become ‘excessively punitive about remarks people find offensive’
The Democratic presidential contender Andrew Yang insisted on Sunday the words of a new Saturday Night Live cast member who called him a “Jew chink” “should be taken in a slightly different light”.
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