It's honestly deeply frustrating to me that adults and teens are all having these come-to-jesus moments simultaneously, because adolescent brains are physiologically terrible at nuance.
The adult take I saw: "The ITH movie got criticized for colorism, and LMM's apology, while sincere sounding, ignores the reality that he's damn well aware of colorism in the community and everyone knows it. However, many Latinx Americans, including Afrolatinx people and other dark-skinned folks, say the movie was nonetheless joyful and wonderful for them, and they're extremely glad to have it, while still demanding LMM do better next time."
That's an incredibly difficult take for any adolescent to understand, especially via a medium as nuance-destroying as tiktok or instagram. Combine the medium with the developmental stage, and it's hard to separate a somewhat problematic fave from, like, Louis CK.
Meanwhile even nuanced, thoughtful adults are having trouble coping with loving the work of any deeply problematic fave (cf. JKR). And that's also worsened by the medium. I have lost count of how many adults I've seen pull the "how dare my twitter mutuals also follow [famous or semi-person famous X who undoubtedly has good leftist politics but once said a thing my crowd interpreted as shitty and who disagrees with me about the acceptability of a specific political pathway]."
I miss the days when teens had their sociopolitical takes, adults had theirs, and rarely the twain should meet.
ETA: and it's worse because the adult punditosphere is frankly vastly less nuanced than we expect of any high schooler, and is bad faith almost all the way down. Everything from "someone blogged about snow white so that means the democrats want to cancel walt disney" to "here's a news article about a single whiney tweet that we're framing as someone somewhere did something and people are outraged!"
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It's honestly deeply frustrating to me that adults and teens are all having these come-to-jesus moments simultaneously, because adolescent brains are physiologically terrible at nuance.
The adult take I saw: "The ITH movie got criticized for colorism, and LMM's apology, while sincere sounding, ignores the reality that he's damn well aware of colorism in the community and everyone knows it. However, many Latinx Americans, including Afrolatinx people and other dark-skinned folks, say the movie was nonetheless joyful and wonderful for them, and they're extremely glad to have it, while still demanding LMM do better next time."
That's an incredibly difficult take for any adolescent to understand, especially via a medium as nuance-destroying as tiktok or instagram. Combine the medium with the developmental stage, and it's hard to separate a somewhat problematic fave from, like, Louis CK.
Meanwhile even nuanced, thoughtful adults are having trouble coping with loving the work of any deeply problematic fave (cf. JKR). And that's also worsened by the medium. I have lost count of how many adults I've seen pull the "how dare my twitter mutuals also follow [famous or semi-person famous X who undoubtedly has good leftist politics but once said a thing my crowd interpreted as shitty and who disagrees with me about the acceptability of a specific political pathway]."
I miss the days when teens had their sociopolitical takes, adults had theirs, and rarely the twain should meet.
ETA: and it's worse because the adult punditosphere is frankly vastly less nuanced than we expect of any high schooler, and is bad faith almost all the way down. Everything from "someone blogged about snow white so that means the democrats want to cancel walt disney" to "here's a news article about a single whiney tweet that we're framing as someone somewhere did something and people are outraged!"