David Choe needs to accept responsibility for his sexism, anti-Blackness, and we need to be normalizing enthusiastic consent

I’m still processing the resurfacing of David Choe’s podcast episode with Asa Akira from 2014 where he tells a story he later claimed was fiction of raping a Black massage therapist (Choe, at least in 2014, tried to argue that it wasn’t rape because she eventually “liked” it). I hadn’t heard of David Choe until seeing him in Ugly Delicious (food documentary on Netflix with host David Chang in an episode with Steven Yeun on BBQ around the world) and…