hot take maybe but riki isn’t an idiot and everyone reducing him to one and saying shit like
“oh he just doesn’t know”
“how could he have known?”
while kanye west’s issues are WIDELY-RECOGNIZED, especially amongst his own supporters, just to defend riki for openly supporting that man is just disrespectful on so many levels. you’re trying to make riki look dumb to justify him hyping up kanye west when he shouldn’t have and that’s not only ignorant, but RUDE and demeaning towards riki himself.
he has proved time and time again that he is an extremely emotionally intelligent and mature person, so for someone to strip that from him just to be able to excuse what he said (which was wrong by the way), is such a lame thing to do.
engenes holding his hand and boymom-ing this entire situation, acting as if riki isn’t a GROWN ASS man AND a PUBLIC FIGURE who should be thinking before he does shit like this are the absolute worst and don’t actually care about riki’s development as a person.
i’m not saying that riki is the spawn of kanye west himself and that he shares his values, but if he is comfortable speaking in official content about a man with such a disgusting history, then things need to change— and that goes for ALL the enhypen members, because they’ve also mentioned problematic artists (drake, chris brown, justin bieber) in the past.
this fandom has spent too much time letting these men go off the hook even when they fuck up, like the breast cancer event and heeseung saying the n-word (because he definitely did say that shit i’m not going to argue about that), and it’s so disturbing seeing how much grace you give them considering you don’t know them at all.
i am a supporter of enhypen, and i’m an ult riki bias, and it is BECAUSE of that that i say the things i do, because as fans, we should be looking out for these idols and that really starts with educating them when they need to be educated. recognizing your faves’ wrongdoings is not a crime, and neither is accountability. doing both and actually getting the members to see what they do wrong is what makes them better people, and better artists.
maybe i’m too woke, but ignorance is always something i will not tolerate and speak up about, no matter how subtle it is, because nobody should ever put kpop over their ethics and morals. stop treating riki like a naive child and get him to own up to his mistakes.
