Thank you. I’m a lesbian. I don’t always want to be the voice of my people but if someone comes to me with a genuine question and they are hoping for understanding I am happy to give them my perspective. How the fuck else are we supposed to learn about other people’s lived experiences?
Because apparently white people are not allowed to ask POC questions about racial issues. They are supposed to magically glean a nuanced, deep, and 100% perfect understanding of the issues via Google because having a productive and earnest conversation with a real human is expecting too much.
The reason she contacted her in the first place was because of comments Margaret made about Tilda’s casting. It’s not like she picked a random Asian person out of a hat . Margaret made comments about Tilda being cast in a role. Tilda decided to contact her and talk to her.
Seriously? What is a white person supposed to do that is better than what Tilda is doing in this, trying to understand the other side of the issue, and trying to figure out how to promote the discussion in a nuanced way?! Stop letting perfect be the enemy of good.
Maybe she shouldn’t have blasted her publicly, but I don’t blame her, mostly because like her in Trumps America I don’t really care about white peoples feelings anymore
That’s fair. But in that case don’t NAME the person you are exaggerating about for a bit. For example: “Yeah, I was contacted by a celeb who wanted to know about why people were upset about whitewashing Dr. Strange” and leave it at that. Once you say “Tilda Swinton said to me” then you sort of lose your ability to…
I mean, she can do all the bits she wants, but she really trashed Swinton here. At what point does your bit have to be at least a little bit true if you’re going to trash someone in it? The e-mails make clear that the exchange was civil and pleasant. Overall, Swinton appears open, even if she doesn’t address Cho’s…
How does one determine when she’s speaking as an advocate and when she’s doing a bit. Is her whole push for more Asian representation just a joke?
Damn and here I thought she was reaching out specifically to an Asian American to try and learn more about the situation and how to approach it. Silly me!
I wonder how many people reacting in the first article will bother to read this one. This made me rethink everything.
Yeah, funny enough, that’s exactly how I hoped a conversation like that would go and for some reason it seems like Cho decided to twist it around on the podcast for comedic purposes. Maybe there’s more to it than this, but right now Cho looks very bad.
One of my favorite things to do at work is to simply respond with the forwarded email that contains whatever they said that they’re now claiming they didn’t say.
I REALLY REALLY hate Cho. She is an asian Amy Schumer, execept even MORE unfunny
seriously. she didn’t need to make a statement. she was just like, “here are the fucking emails. have fun.”
Right? I thought of Tilda as this ethereal being who “didn’t get it” and existed on her own plane and I was mistaken. Cho reiterated the whitewashing a couple times, but Tilda was trying to listen, she even opened with that. And I didn’t get the “but I have an Asian friend” vibe the way Cho suggested. I’m sure that’s…
Its this kind of thing that really fucks up the left and progress in general. In this instance, Tilda had a constructive conversation with her peer about how to address an issue, and then Cho takes it and warps it and makes it ugly.
Or Cho is a lying hack and tried to get the spotlight put on her?
OH SHIT! Tilda came with fucking receiptsssssssssss
now that i’ve read margaret and tilda’s conversation, i have to wonder if margaret did as well.