After going through the carnage on both Tumblr and Threads, few things are actually pretty clear when you use of your neurons properly:
1. That these haters/instigators have only one goal at hand: trying to minimise the general image of Hudson as a whole in the public. They don’t care whether this issue has any material merit or its racist implication. They just want to light the fuse of branding him as “racist” because nothing else is working from the beginning to tarnish his shine. This can also be evidenced by the fact that these “think pierces” on the fact that his fans are just making excuses from him and would have never this kinda grace to a female actor is an argument superficial at best. And their tendency to not answer and just block people on their comment section says such.
2. I have been through many fandoms, where the actors have either turned out problematic or downright evil in recent time. However I am yet to see a cast so dead on the face of a major scandal to one of their leads. I get it’s a PrR strategy to be hands off when the iron is boiling hot, however I would argue that today’s situation would have been lot easier if the crew was at least a minuscule amount of worries about its only POC lead. I would be happy to listen to the other side, but at least if one of my friends was in such a cesspool, i would at least show some support publicly to at least attest to the fact that we are not a abandoning him in the wild.
3. I wish like Insta I could send a request for mental check on some accounts, because how in the world are you this invested in a guy you personally don’t know, has never harmed you and is existing in their own space. Like this kind os dedication if put onto a freaking job we would have solved all crimes in the world.
4. And for the faction of the fandom who are busy sweeping this incident by saying “this is too toxic, we should move past it. It’ll blow lever eventually. “ how does it feel being this privileged? Like someday you have to stop acting like an ostrich for every racial hate crime and start acting like a human.
