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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Chloe Bennet is speaking out against Gigi Hadid and Steve Harvey for their “ignorant” jokes aimed at Asian people.
“Dear Gigi Hadid, As a kid, (and frankly as an adult) people would make fun of me for being Chinese. For having ‘Asian eyes,’” Bennet wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, alongside an adorable throwback pic of her as a young girl. “I would laugh it off because it was always a ‘joke,’ and if I didn't I was being ‘too sensitive.’”
Bennet’s comments come in response to Hadid seemingly mocking “Asian eyes” in an Instagram story last week, squinting as she held up a Buddha cookie while out to dinner with friends.
“In reality it made me feel horrible,” explained Bennet, whose father is Chinese-American. “Like, just Being »
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