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Last Checked March 16, 2023

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Mon Mar 13 16:25:25 +0000 2023

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@AviHein @neontaster No Asian woman had ever won Best Actress before Yeoh. Ben Kingsley is half-Indian (birth name: Krishna Pandit Bhanji) but doesn't identify as "Asian." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 13, 2023

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@neontaster "Openly Asian" is going to sound weird to people who don't know the Merle Oberon story - but Oberon never won, so that fact wasn't relevant when Yeoh did. The extra ungainliness comes from trying to un-gender the word "actress," which the Academy doesn't do but NPR does. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 13, 2023

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@entoliberal @Ellie_Kit66 @PoesMyaa @MorgothArc I'm not reading this whole thread but I think we agree that the NPR tweet was maximally confusing. Could have just said "Yeoh is the first Asian woman to win Best Actress." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 13, 2023

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