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Young people are allowed to make critiques of stuff. Some folks do not take kindly to that. Just because you lived through worse doesn't mean we have no right to call out -isms/-phobias where we see them.
Calling those things out does not imply you hate the individuals involved, nor that their art is untouchable.
Using the f-word does not mean someone is filled with hatred or contempt. This one feels generational to me: I and my peers throw it around as a qualifier like "basically" without a lot of emotion.
Even if it is embued with emotion, all feelings are valid. It's ok to be angry about seeing exhausting layers of oppression from IRL reflected in art.
And the excuse that folks "didn't know any better back then doesn't make it okay." Plenty of ignorant yet well-meaning people replicate aspects of oppressive structures in their work and lives unknowingly. This is what criticism is meant to uncover and change.
Screwed up the quotes here but you know what I mean.
Important to remember also that a Twitter user only has to be 13+ to have an account complying with Twitter TOS, so let's all be careful. Some of us older folks might have more experience de-escalating difficult dialogues and we need to do so rather than escalating.
I am almost 30. As a younger millenial I identified myself with young folks in the first tweet, but when compared to teens I certainly group myself with "older folks." Sorry for any confusion between first and last tweet in this thread.
