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my DMs before 11am. it goes without saying that absolutely any hate is abhorrent and OBVIOUSLY I am adamantly against it. I will speak out against injustice always, but please let me even see the news for myself before you yell at me as if I said it myself.
on top of everything, and I really do try to bring attention to as much as I physically can... I am not a news outlet, so people saying “this has been going on all day”, pls. just say you want to catch me out and move on. unless I see you commenting the same on influencers who
never speak out or don’t pretend to care, don’t try to come for me. you clearly think that I think I’m morally superior so wants to catch me out. I don’t, I do my best and that’s never that bad. You just want to see me fall and you’re not gonna get it. I’m a genuinely good
person and I care a LOT about what I do and say, so I will always have the receipts or reasoning because I check myself all the time, more than you ever could. So keep wasting your energy.
Having had an extra think, I think this also hugely encourages a dangerous level of performative justice - when I speak on something I genuinely want to read up on it first, understand the nuances of the debate and consider how to talk about it as someone with a platform
I don’t want to come off all white fragility - I actually think this is quite the opposite considering what people are pitting anti-Semitism against - but I think it’s important to allow people to develop their own understanding and opinions before we all shout at them to speak
Otherwise all were going to get is politician-style condemnation of things that should obviously be condemned, just to save ourselves from cancel culture. I pride myself in constantly reading & attempting to understand the discourse on a genuine level so that I can hopefully
share more than just a “this should not have happened”. This thirst for wokeness is going to decrease actual understanding of the rhetoric and in place we’ll have mass substanceless stances.
Give me time & trust that I’m a good person who genuinely believes in doing the right thing and I’ll be able to do even better things with my platform, rather than just performative speech for fear of not speaking.
If you’re uncomfortable with that, I’m not the right person for you to follow. Either that or I’ll set an alarm for 6am every morning to condemn what I need to condemn by the time you wake up & you’ll get a whole lot of statements devoid of substance just so my performativity can
tick your boxes. Your choice.
End of conversation from me, and hopefully back to talking about the actual disgusting nature of the situation. Let’s keep conversations going with actual dialogue, with friends, family and influencers. That’s far more important.
