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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Apr 15, 2021 14:01:09 GMT -5
CW: Discussion about rape and sexual assault:
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FinalGwen
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Post by FinalGwen on Apr 15, 2021 14:27:26 GMT -5
A 1 hour 40 video on getting 'cancelled', wow, has she learnt from Contrapoints.
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Apr 15, 2021 14:49:12 GMT -5
What's this all about?
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Apr 15, 2021 15:00:31 GMT -5
She didn't like a movie so people accused her of being racist. It's a really good video, I recommend watching it. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2021 15:03:03 GMT -5
she made a bunch of tweets that could be taken as racist. Instead of apologizing or saying "that wasn't my intent." or anything like that she deleted her twitter account. and people mostly moved on from this until she decided to do an hour and forty minute video on the subject... |
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Post by eJm on Apr 15, 2021 15:05:57 GMT -5
She didn't like a movie so people accused her of being racist. It's a really good video, I recommend watching it. Far be it from me to watch any of these long-winded "drama" videos because, well, I'm 32 years old and I don't have long on this Earth but I'm in the process of going through it and...yeah, she admits to a lot of stuff that she messed up with including some of the tweets relating to what started all of this. Did it need to be movie length? Probably not but it did make me rethink a lot of my social media use (something I'm already trying to cut back on a lot). |
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Post by chazraps on Apr 15, 2021 15:06:08 GMT -5
Wait, it's seriously an hour and 40 minutes?
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Post by petef3 on Apr 15, 2021 15:06:27 GMT -5
LOL at the idea of "that wasn't my intent" being accepted as an apology. Give me a break with that crap. She would have been damned if she did and damned if she didn't.
Full disclosure: I have no idea what Lindsay Ellis tweeted, never seen or heard of the movie that stirred up the controversy, and have never seen Avatar: The Last Airbender in any of its forms.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2021 15:07:02 GMT -5
Wait, it's seriously an hour and 40 minutes? no... it's 1:40 and 32 seconds.  |
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Post by lucas_lee on Apr 15, 2021 15:16:27 GMT -5
LOL at the idea of "that wasn't my intent" being accepted as an apology. Give me a break with that crap. She would have been damned if she did and damned if she didn't. Full disclosure: I have no idea what Lindsay Ellis tweeted, never seen or heard of the movie that stirred up the controversy, and have never seen Avatar: The Last Airbender in any of its forms. Saying that wasn't my intent usually comes off as disingenuous tbh. She really shouldve stayed silent or address in a shorter video |
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Apr 15, 2021 15:19:08 GMT -5
Aaand it's already happening here bow. Good job *slow clap*
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2021 15:23:08 GMT -5
LOL at the idea of "that wasn't my intent" being accepted as an apology. Give me a break with that crap. She would have been damned if she did and damned if she didn't. Full disclosure: I have no idea what Lindsay Ellis tweeted, never seen or heard of the movie that stirred up the controversy, and have never seen Avatar: The Last Airbender in any of its forms. Saying that wasn't my intent usually comes off as disingenuous tbh. She really shouldve stayed silent or address in a shorter video as I said ... most people had moved on in about a week... deleting her account and then this video only really brought more attention to it |
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Apr 15, 2021 15:25:42 GMT -5
she made a bunch of tweets that could be taken as racist. Instead of apologizing or saying "that wasn't my intent." or anything like that she deleted her twitter account. and people mostly moved on from this until she decided to do an hour and forty minute video on the subject... She made one tweet that wasn't racist in the slightest and was piled on because of it. Video explains it pretty well. |
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Apr 15, 2021 15:26:25 GMT -5
Saying that wasn't my intent usually comes off as disingenuous tbh. She really shouldve stayed silent or address in a shorter video as I said ... most people had moved on in about a week... deleting her account and then this video only really brought more attention to it She makes a lot of really good points about that in the video itself. If you're just being pilloried by people out for blood then what's even the f***ing point of keeping a Twitter account? The video itself isn't just about what happened to her, either. I think dismissing all the good points she makes would be a mistake. |
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Post by Cyno on Apr 15, 2021 15:27:44 GMT -5
Certain people had the knives out for Ellis for awhile now. The attempt at "cancelling" her over the worst possible interpretation (which is quite frankly a stretch at best) for one of her tweets feels really opportunistic and disingenuous.
That said, her Streisand Effect-ing it isn't doing her any favors either.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2021 15:30:14 GMT -5
she made a bunch of tweets that could be taken as racist. Instead of apologizing or saying "that wasn't my intent." or anything like that she deleted her twitter account. and people mostly moved on from this until she decided to do an hour and forty minute video on the subject... She made one tweet that wasn't racist in the slightest and was piled on because of it. Video explains it pretty well. there was more than just the Raya tweet that was brought up when she deleted her account. and yes at least one of them absolutely could be read as racist, even if she didn't intend it that way. The Raya tweet I absolutely could see how someone could read it as semi-problematic (As much as I hate that word)... even if I don't think she intended it that way. |
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Post by petef3 on Apr 15, 2021 15:31:55 GMT -5
She made one tweet that wasn't racist in the slightest and was piled on because of it. Video explains it pretty well. there was more than just the Raya tweet that was brought up when she deleted her account. Go on...? |
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Apr 15, 2021 15:34:38 GMT -5
She made one tweet that wasn't racist in the slightest and was piled on because of it. Video explains it pretty well. there was more than just the Raya tweet that was brought up when she deleted her account. and yes at least one of them absolutely could be read as racist, even if she didn't intend it that way. The Raya tweet I absolutely could see how someone could read it as semi-problematic (As much as I hate that word)... even if I don't think she intended it that way. Intent is everything though. And it's really shitty to dig out something someone said 5 to 10 years ago as "proof" that they're a bad person now. These are all things she addresses in the video. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 15, 2021 15:37:25 GMT -5
LOL at the idea of "that wasn't my intent" being accepted as an apology. Give me a break with that crap. She would have been damned if she did and damned if she didn't. Full disclosure: I have no idea what Lindsay Ellis tweeted, never seen or heard of the movie that stirred up the controversy, and have never seen Avatar: The Last Airbender in any of its forms. Could be worse. She could say "It was Ambien" instead. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2021 15:43:50 GMT -5
there was more than just the Raya tweet that was brought up when she deleted her account. Go on...? I have no horse in this race... I have watched several of Lindsay's video essays and found them generally well researched. I don't go around documenting every twitter drama in great detail... especially as honestly I really don't care. but from what I remember immediately after her deleting there were a number of tweets posted at the time showing off a lot of her really bad takes or just really awful things she said. One of which was a jokey tweet about if a movie about slave rape had Reylo like fanfic. |
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