i'm not entirely clued in on what the tweet thing with lou was but i think it's interesting that people want him out of the show/his character dead, but did not have this energy when a castmember went on camera, on a show with several black actors, to say that it was okay that his girlfriend said the n-word because he, too, said it all the time. did not see this energy asking for a recast or for his public execution then...
Argh, I have seen this argument brought up "in defence" of Lou, several times now, and I cannot shut my mouth about it.
This is such a bad faith, stupid whataboutism, sliding into the same toxicity, the same moral purity bullshit that the BoBs are pulling against Lou.
STOP.
You are misrepresenting the facts. The facts were that Chrysti, who was pregnant at the time (and I do not have any kind of high opinion of her, but I'm stating this objectively), was bullied and harassed on social media - including death threats!! - because people dug up a roughly ten year old tweet where she was QUOTING a rap song that contained the n-word. Which is a ridiculous thing to bring up in the first place, because a quote of a line of text in an art work is not the same thing as using the word against someone. AND it was many years ago. AND she apologized for it, saying she hadn't been as aware of the implications back then as now, because - news flash for all you little self-righteous children who are so aware of every social issue under the sun, today - 10-15 years ago that was something that was much more commonplace and accepted than today, especially in the context of hip hop/rap culture.
Ryan then went and rightfully and understandably defended his pregnant partner, and kinda put his foot in his mouth, because he made the mistake of saying something publicly that he should have kept to himself: he admitted that he, same as most Latino men who are in mixed race friends groups with black people, sometimes uses that word and other slurs as jokes in the microcosm of those friends groups. And because people are incapable of understanding context and intention (i.e. a group of people of color/ethnic minorities using a variety of slurs often used against them, including each of their own racial minority group, as a way to reclaim them and make fun of white people's bad intentions), and because Ryan didn't explain all the sociopolitical implications and relations of language in a way that would fit an academic essay on it, they chose to interpret it in the worst possible way instead of putting it in that context; and they continue to do so until this day!
And no. There was no absence of backlash against Ryan; Lou doesn't get any worse treatment today than Ryan did back then. There WERE tons of people going on a holier than thou crusade against him, demanding a recast, sending him hate and threats; and there are even still people today who KEEP bringing it up at every chance they get (as demonstratively proven!!), or who censor his name to "Ry*n" or "R*an" as if the name alone is a bad word.
So no, do NOT misrepresent the facts like that, please!
People in fandom have always been toxic and lacking understanding for nuance, intention and context; or intentionally interpreting things in bad faith because it fits their agenda.
So please, stop. You do NOT need to put Ryan down in order to elevate Lou. You can defend Lou and call out toxicity against him without doing that.
To whoever reads this, take it as a PSA. If you hate Ryan based on that, if you think he deserves all the vitriol and scrutiny he got ever since that incident, please block me, because I do not want anything to do with such unrealistic moral purity standards and such hypocrisy - hypocrisy because what people like that are doing is much more toxic, violent and bigoted than the initial offence ever was.
Grow up, and touch grass. I dare you.
"Same as most latino men"
Me, a latino man who doesn't pass the paperbag test but also doesn't call anyone the n-word: okay grandma, let's get you to bed
vai tomar no cu seu palmiteiro do caralho porque você sabe muito bem que brasileiro quase nem é latino e você fingindo que nós temos a mesma cultura que o ryan teve crescendo.
e falando de bend over backwards pra defender um white man como se o lou não fosse branco né?? hipocrisia GRITOU.
