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Yumi Nu, who appeared on the front cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

This week a 59-year-old white man tweeted a photo of a 25-year-old Asian woman, declaring her “not beautiful”.

The woman was Yumi Nu, an American-Japanese singer-songwriter. The photo in question was of Nu, in her “bigger body”, in a pair of black swimming togs on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.