i fucking despise well-off/rich people that complain about little things because im literally sitting here eating plain pieces of bread bc we have literally nothing to eat
The people in the notes calling her apology “fake” or whatevs are exactly what’s wrong with this whole “problematic” culture bullshit. First of all, this isn’t the first time Stone has talked about this. And after tonight, it probably won’t be the last. Second of all, this is exactly what privilege does to people. Even those that mean well will fuck up. In Stone’s case, it’s very possible she didn’t realize until it was too late there was something wrong with her taking that role. If she’s the type that’s willing to learn about these things, we should educate her. Not put her on the chopping block.
Ok, but stealing time from an Asian woman while SHE is making a joke about something that personally affects her and people around her isn’t a good thing to do ever. No matter how sorry you are or how you feel, it’s not your time to be a part of the joke and the fact that she did that deserves scrutiny.
It’s perfectly fine that she’s come out and talked about this in the past (fucking FOUR YEARS AGO when the movie came out) but imagine if Scarlett Johansson did the same thing here when all she does is shit like this. It’s NEVER ok to insert yourself into a joke about marginalization when you’ve been a part of it, sorry or not.
Because guess what? It didn’t come off as her being sorry to ANYBODY else. It either came off as being a joke (which is a take I’ve seen from most people on Twitter) or as her just being insensitive.
Trump’s brutality wasn’t something they politely ignored, it was his whole appeal.
I would be all “but I never thought leopards would eat MY face!” about this, but even that’s too kind here. It’s not that Trump voters didn’t care whether other people got hurt as long as they were exempted from consequences, people voted for Trump explicitly for spite, because they wanted to hurt other people - immigrants, gays, black people. And now he’s not hurting them enough. If he was persecuting minorities more this lady would be willing to put up with the hardship, because that’s how much she hates her fellow Americans.
This is a thing I had and still grapple with after the election. Many people when talking in to news people about why they voted Trump gave their reason as they he is “a business man and will run the country like a business”, will have economic reform, and essentially get them money.
Which if anyone knows anything about Trump knows that isn’t true and the average person isn’t going to get a penny.
But the message I was getting is that the rampant racism, his history of anti-black racism, his antisemitism, his long long history misogyny, creepy sexual behavior, his disturbing incest comments about his daughter, his racist dog whistles used all though out the campaign, his transphobia, his homophobia, and the massive support he got from white supremacists that doesn’t matter to you because of money.
Your greed is more important the damage and pain he will cause. That I find so highly disturbing and scary.
Because I already knew American had racists and they were salivating over trump and they would be more then happy to suffer if it meant minorities would suffer fuck ton more.
I mean it is scary to see just how many racists there and to see the implosion of neo-nazis in this country, even though I knew they were already here (and shit ton of them can be found wearing the uniform of police officers though I’m sure for many americans they already knew that)
I guess I just also find terrifying how easy it was for some many people to turn to flat out say that there greed was more important the suffering of others.
I don’t if this moral deficit, if this is because of capitalism, or if because to these voters at the end of the day they thought the only people who would suffer would LGBTQIA+ people, black people, Jewish people, immigrants, disabled people, mentally ill people, and other marginalized minorities. Or perhaps a combination of all three factors.
I mean there is nothing wrong with wanting more money and financial stability, but not when it comes with suffering of others.
America has so many massive corporations that rake is billions of dollars and there are mutli-millionaires and billionaires living here that is who the government should be taxing. That is presidential candidates should go after in their campaigns not people belonging various marginalized minority groups.
If a sitting president threatens to hold government employees hostage and shut down the government for years because the other branches of government won’t give him absolute power, then he should be fucking impeached.
