I agree completely. What Alexandra Wallace said in her youtube video was incredibly racist and wrong, but the people who are saying things about her (focusing on her physical aspects) are just as wrong. There’s so much shaming and hating happening. But the one good thing about this video going viral is it starts up a dialogue, and from dialogue, we can share our different views with each other. Now if only we could keep it clean…
I’m not even particularly interested in dialogue or quality of dialogue or let’s-all-sit-around-and-hold-hands-and-talk-about-our-feelings. More the point is just to be aware of what we’re complicit in when we call a girl a slut because she said something racist and dumb, rather than calling her a bigot and a fucking idiot because she said something racist and dumb.