I hope I've worded this well, I'm sleepy, my eyes are burning, I'm going to bed in a sec.
But first, a little vent, need to get it off my chest.
We're all flawed humans, who sometimes make mistakes, and regret them. And sometimes do something out of goodness or with good intentions, but sometimes we might be misinformed, and then we learn better. It doesn't matter if we're rich and famous or not, we're all human.
But some of you, far too many of you, are determined to take things in the worst faith and stick to it, instead of showing a little grace.
And for some reason you hold SOME people, and not ANYONE else, to an impossible standard, and then try to cancel them as soon as they slip up according to what you have decided must be the truth.
Rather than remembering the good things about them, the good they've done, or considering their general character. -
You're deciding someone's a piece of shit because of a single assumption you made about a thing they did. Where you don't know the full picture. You assume you know how they think. You assume they must know everything about everything. You assume they're a dick for hiring a certain actor for their movie, cause that actor is also a dick according to you, because there is a single allegation against them from over a decade ago, but it's not proven. There was no evidence, and charges were dropped. So we can't know if they're really a dick. We don't possess the facts, so let's move on.
And ignoring/cancelling the indigenous man who's always done what he can to lift up those around him, and especially other indigenous people, is not a good look. He's always been a good person, with good intentions. Nothing points otherwise. Those who know him and work with him have only ever had good things to say. There's always a lot of heart and sincerity in his work.
You sure are quick to do a 180 on someone you yourself used to be a huge fan of, and jump on the hate-bandwagon without proof or facts to back it up. You've just decided something is that way. Just based on rumours or assumptions about something where you only know a small part of the story. Jumping to conclusions. Not allowing some room for error. No benefit of the doubt. Not listening when they say they made a mistake, or regret something, or admit they were wrong. No forgiveness.
And there's no having a rational conversation about it. You've just decided. And you're so arrogant that you think there's no way you might be wrong about something. You double down if someone disagrees.
And then you go around policing what people are allowed to think or who they're allowed to like. As if other people can't think for themselves and make up their own opinion or do their own fact-checking and research. You straight up bully people sometimes.
To be perfectly clear, I'm talking about Taika, obviously. And that stupid fucking letter. (He has since shown support to Palestine, if you even care. I'd post screenshots if I knew where to find them). I'm sure they all had the best of intentions. Who wouldn't want hostages freed? There's a good post by someone about the letter thing. I reblogged it before this.
People are flawed and nuanced, multifaceted. You and me and everyone else on this planet, no matter their status. Everything is grey/multicoloured. Nothing is black and white. People can make mistakes, and regret those mistakes, and be forgiven.
I've said my piece and there's some other really good posts about this whole thing. And tomorrow I'll continue focusing on the campaign cause I want my fucking captains back, both of them.
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