#but people don't care to check for themselves so everyone just jumps on the bandwagon and makes it into a huge deal

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The speaking for whole groups of people gets on my nerves as well. I had a friend tell me that poc were upset with Olivia because of the article and she said she was reading and listening to what they had to say, but she didn’t even say what it was? So I thought it was something really harmful but it was the 50s quote. That annoyed me because I knew she hadn’t read the article or even the whole paragraph that the quote came from to form her own opinion first. She’d just seen that comment out of context and the people she followed (a lot of her mutuals I know don’t like her which is whatever) were angry. Like the way she said it just came across really performative and condescending? I knew there would have been people who didn’t have a problem with it. We’re both white and I would never dismiss someone else’s feelings or argue that they’re wrong, I completely agree with you that it could have been said with more understanding of how it could be interpreted, but I knew what she meant by it. that kind of activism annoys me because it comes from a place of wanting to feel validated that you’re a good person or not racist, “that’s enough activism for today” kind of thing you know? When actually you can have your own opinion on something like this comment, as long as you’re respectful and can understand different people’s perspectives. And sometimes you don’t have to say anything or act fake outraged on someone else’s behalf you know? It’s the group think mentality and blowing things out of proportion thing of this fandom yet again. Again I am white so I understand I could be speaking out of turn but that’s just what I thought on this topic

That kind of behavior is so dangerous to me bc you're not getting your info from an unbiased source yet you don't feel like you're even able to form your own opinion anyways bc you're told you're not allowed to. Probably a very unpopular sentiment among POC, but I can't tell you how annoyed I get with the whole "you can't speak on this unless you're a person of color" thing. It's so ridiculous like you're allowed to have an opinion for god's sake. Obviously don't speak over POC and act like you know what they should and shouldn't be offended by but people need to be able to have civilized adult conversations without their opinions being dismissed outright. Bc like I said before, all that ends up happening is that people feel intimidated into agreeing bc they don't want to seem racist by having a different opinion than a POC and they want people to think they're a good woke. Bc as a non-POC if you even bring up a clarification or a point that conflicts with what they're saying, you get told you shouldn't even be speaking. And like that might work for you online but good luck trying that in the real world lmao. Like yeah there are absolutely things that non-POC aren't going to understand are harmful and in those instances it's good to be quiet & just listen, but that's not what's happening here. People were poised to find anything they could possibly use against her in that article, no matter how much reaching and purposeful misinterpretation and context stripping they had to do so they could add it to her ever-growing list of wrongdoings. POC are not infallible and can be clouded by bias just like white people can, sorry to say 🤷🏾‍♀️