• zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        She was legit freaking out lol

        She genuinely thought he was throwing the election with his tweets. He even said something about the imagining idea of Biden winning but Trump doesn't accept the result and no one can do anything about it because no one actually knows what to do.

        Then when Biden started winning she started posting gifs of exclusively black women clapping and dancing which was extremely weird.

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Then when Biden started winning she started posting gifs of exclusively black women clapping and dancing which was extremely weird.

          Big oof. I don't know if this is digital blackface or just somewhere in the vicinity, but like, it's so obviously weird and cringe. Just, what exactly are you expressing with this?

          • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            It's performative wokeness. "Black girl magic saved the election, but also keep those thugs out of my neighborhood" type of energy

            • nohaybanda [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              but also keep those thugs out of my neighborhood

              I wanna give her the benefit of the doubt on this one, since for all her lib takes, Lindsay isn't an outright enemy to the left, I don't think. You're probably spot on with the magical black girl part of it, however. It's cringe, and to me it comes across as speaking for PoC or using them as props / sock puppets, even if it's not intended.

              But then again, I'm also a white* guy, so I want to be careful not to do the same here.


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              • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                I was probably being overly harsh with that, but I always found the infantilization of black people during elections to be pretty gross.

      • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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        3 years ago

        God that was so weird since literally earlier that week she made a post about how she understood people not voting in the general but urged people to pay attention to Downballet/measures.

        IDK I think libs get super butt hurt at her for that too.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        The thing about Lindsay Ellis is that she, like most academics, is really only intelligent in one area. I like her video essays, but I just have to ignore anything she says about american politics.

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      They got so mad over it. It was amazing seeing so many people tell him it was, like, morally incorrect to even lightly criticize Biden for fear that he might convince someone not to vote for Biden lol

      Sometimes I miss being on twitter, it's funny sometimes