The flipside of "let people enjoy things" is "let people criticize things" and while there's definitely bad faith criticism for the most part people screeching about their right to uncritically enjoy things are doing so bc someone had legitimate critiques that ruin the "perfect" https://twitter.com/elizabethminkel/status/1330911701479399425
Fantasy they've built up in their heads so they try to denounce them.

You don't HAVE to engage with the critiques but stop sticking your head in the sand and acting like all criticism is unwarranted and coming from a place of hate when a lot of time it's ppl being like
"I want to enjoy this but here's what's stopping me" or even more frequently "I DO enjoy this but it also has these problems"

If that stops your enjoyment then maybe you need to look more closely at why you enjoyed it.
(also if the critique is rooted in -isms and you try to shout it down bc it makes you uncomfortable with your personal enjoyment the it means you know your upholding white supremacy and don't want to do anything about it)
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