I’m not here for some of y’all saying it would have been easier if Leslie Jones just ignored the parade of racism and misogyny flooding her twitter. PEOPLE.WERE.CALLING.HER.AN.APE. How could you possibly say it would have been “easier” to ignore all THAT? Especially since they KEPT HARASSING HER AND SENDING HER FAKE TWEETS TO DEMONIZE HER IMAGE. She had every right to react, and yet she shouldn’t because they’re “trolls”? Um no? because in the end, the intention was to hurt Leslie. Do not downplay this disgusting behavior by slapping the word “troll” on it. Fuck this mindset bordering on white privilege.
Stop telling black women how to react to racism. Stop telling them that they should hold their tongue when they’re being racially abused.
It is not, at fucking all, easy for any black/pocs to just casually ignore racist abuse like that. Get that through your skull.
Also, to folks who are seemingly on Leslie’s side saying things like “she didn’t do anything to deserve this” or “it’s just a movie I don’t understand why people are acting like this?” I think I get what y’all are trying to say but NO ACTION BIG OR SMALL WARRANTS RACIST, SEXIST, MISOGYNOIRISTIC ATTACKS.
There’s nothing any Black woman could do to “deserve” racist and/or sexist attacks. There’s no act big enough to make it “understandable” that racist misogynists would attack a Black woman with racism and/or sexism.
We have to stop using this kind of language because it implies that some people “deserve” this kind of treatment or that this kind of treatment is ever warranted or understandable.
Of course she didn’t “deserve it.” No one does. Of course it’s not understandable/reasonable for this to happen over a role in a movie. It’s never understandable/reasonable. And of course Leslie or any person of color, in this case a Black woman, shouldn’t be told how to respond, much less told to basically grin and bear it.
Yes both of these. There’s a huge difference between “you have no talent” or “you smell like poop” and what was tweeted to her.
“Don’t feed the trolls” is not appropriate advice when someone is the target of an organised attack designed to deny them their essential humanity.
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