So people don’t grow and change at all between 17 and 27? If you dive past the headline and read what she actually tweeted, sure it’s racist, but there is a huge divide between saying something stupid about asian eyes and calling for people to get shot, which is what the headlines are getting tied to.
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Not gonna lie, I am not happy about Alexi not taking the helm at Teen Vogue because of this kerfuffle. What she said was wrong, but relatively milquetoast, comparatively, even with all the anti-Asian sentiment going on. It was also infinitely stale, at more than a decade old, when Twitter was just a glimmer in our…
Yeah, I do find it a little ironic that many of the same people who endorse allowing people coming out of the penal system to “get on with their lives” and ascribe to the idea that “your worst actions do not define you” are often the same people who take hard lines against stuff like this. It makes me wonder.
I really don’t get it; if you don’t give people a chance for redemption for stupid shit they did at some point in their life, the only people that will ever get into positions of authority are the kind of assholes that start ‘managing their brand’ as a pre teen. People that are that image conscious are an absolute…
I’m guessing the overlap between people who think Africa is a country, people who think Europe is a country, and people who seriously wonder aloud why there’s no White History Month is a perfect circle.
It’s beautiful.
Oh, and also they got kids out here doing slavery yoga poses and shit.
“So here’s the great big country of Africa.”