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Hey, wait a minute! https://twitter.com/heyjenbartel/status/1050138967348273152
Alright. Let’s drop the pretense.
I was loaded up with homework the night this popped off. I left it hanging until I finished my work. In the five or so hours between Jen sending this, she softblocked me and turned off DMs.
I was loaded up with homework the night this popped off. I left it hanging until I finished my work. In the five or so hours between Jen sending this, she softblocked me and turned off DMs.
So I sent an email, because I still wanted to talk it out, and also because I didn’t see her reply earlier that night.
Her response. My next tweet unpacks more, but a lot of this answer boils down to “I understand, but making an accurate drawing still deserves praise”, when my point was that it (drawing black people) does not, because respect and accuracy for all subjects should be the standard.
And my response from last night. I address her feeling that my criticism was coming from a place of bad faith.
So @heyjenbartel, I wish it didn’t have to be like this. We could’ve teamed up and held @io9 accountable for taking your words out of context or examined why well-meaning allies look more closely at nonblack lenses on blackness than the source.
But for you to block a few black folks for speaking out about an issue you do not feel in your everyday life, deeming it bad faith because it criticizes you and jeopardizes your public image is infuriating and disrespectful.
https://twitter.com/kohquette/status/1050126987283509249?s=21
And if @io9 made it look a certain way, then why wouldn’t Jen reach out to the reporter to issue the necessary corrections? Why would her response to the question be so self-centering and othering in the first place?
And if @io9 made it look a certain way, then why wouldn’t Jen reach out to the reporter to issue the necessary corrections? Why would her response to the question be so self-centering and othering in the first place?
https://twitter.com/paulreinwand/status/1050122660602994688?s=21
And Paul, I’m sorry — I have nothing but admiration for you and your work, but this isn’t telephone. These are people talking in hushed tones because someone with one hundred thousand followers could quote tweet them and actually change the narrative.
And Paul, I’m sorry — I have nothing but admiration for you and your work, but this isn’t telephone. These are people talking in hushed tones because someone with one hundred thousand followers could quote tweet them and actually change the narrative.
Black folks didn’t choose to make an ‘unnecessary enemy’ of Jen, some of us just wanted better from someone who willfully and vocally prides herself on how right she does by others.
