As an ABC (American-born Chinese), I 100% believe it that her name change improved her chances of being chosen for a role. There is still a disturbing amount of racism aimed at Asians in the US.

You missed the killer line:

It’s insane that people here are suggesting that. Deescalation, yes. But racist deescalation? I cannot see any circumstances beyond some manufactured extremes (KKK member with a gun refusing to put it down unless a white police officer says something racist) where any officer should himself engage in racist speech in…

But I can somewhat excuse him

All I can think about is Michael Che’s comment on cops being put on “administrative leave.” “You never hear McDonald’s putting Carlos on ‘administrative leave’ while they investigate whether or not he put his pubes in the fries.”

“In context, his comments were clearly aimed at attempting to gain compliance by using the passenger’s own statements and reasoning to avoid making an arrest.”

Thing is, Lord of the Flies was a response to a particular conceit of British pulp novels which depicted young boys/men being stranded as a fun adventure with little internal conflict. Golding took the subject of entitled British boarding school boys and the kind of savagery he saw in how they acted with each other…