It does indeed hurt when a celebrity you like is found to have done something Bad. I remember when the Bill Cosby scandal first broke. One of my coworkers said something about "Bill Cosby is a rapist" and I hadn't yet heard about it. I loved Cosby's stand-up humor; for one thing, it was clean! That is so rare in a stand-up comic! And it was still funny, which means you don't HAVE to be dirty to be funny. And then he was in The Cosby Show, which was upper middle class black family and half the people I knew watched it because it was such a nice show - parents didn't constantly bicker, kids didn't constantly sass, etc.
I didn't apologize for him or anything like that. I did feel like, let's wait and see how this shakes out before passing judgment, because at the start it was one woman against Cosby, and women have indeed accused men of inappropriate conduct/assault to extort money from them. But when the evidence began piling up, as much as I didn't want to believe it was true, I didn't have a choice. The proof was there - they couldn't ALL be trying to extort money out of him.
And yes it made me very sad. How could you, Bill Cosby? You seemed so nice! How could you do this? You tainted your whole legacy.
So I can sympathize with "man, I wish that weren't true," but I also didn't say "well, I'm sure there were extenuating circumstances."
And that's what bugs me about the current tweet reveals - like you said, people are apologizing *on behalf of* those who made the tweets. Which were wrong to make in the first place and everyone knows it. "Trying to be edgy" doesn't fix it.
And it shows a real double standard. Alt-right is shown to have made those kinds of tweets? You know the liberals would scream how the alt-righter is EBIL EBIL EBIL and has always been evil and will never be not evil. But when it's one of their own? Oh no, it was just a joke, boys will be boys, he's changed, he's grown, he's better now. Forgive and forget.
It's really easy to "smear" someone when you've given your enemies lots of crap to find. And over and over again, it's just proving that the entertainment industry is full of sickos, and they're awful people, and they'll defend their own to the death but if ANYONE ELSE is guilty of ANYTHING...
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Date: 2018-07-30 12:43 pm (UTC)I didn't apologize for him or anything like that. I did feel like, let's wait and see how this shakes out before passing judgment, because at the start it was one woman against Cosby, and women have indeed accused men of inappropriate conduct/assault to extort money from them. But when the evidence began piling up, as much as I didn't want to believe it was true, I didn't have a choice. The proof was there - they couldn't ALL be trying to extort money out of him.
And yes it made me very sad. How could you, Bill Cosby? You seemed so nice! How could you do this? You tainted your whole legacy.
So I can sympathize with "man, I wish that weren't true," but I also didn't say "well, I'm sure there were extenuating circumstances."
And that's what bugs me about the current tweet reveals - like you said, people are apologizing *on behalf of* those who made the tweets. Which were wrong to make in the first place and everyone knows it. "Trying to be edgy" doesn't fix it.
And it shows a real double standard. Alt-right is shown to have made those kinds of tweets? You know the liberals would scream how the alt-righter is EBIL EBIL EBIL and has always been evil and will never be not evil. But when it's one of their own? Oh no, it was just a joke, boys will be boys, he's changed, he's grown, he's better now. Forgive and forget.
It's really easy to "smear" someone when you've given your enemies lots of crap to find. And over and over again, it's just proving that the entertainment industry is full of sickos, and they're awful people, and they'll defend their own to the death but if ANYONE ELSE is guilty of ANYTHING...
It's very discouraging.