Sam Smith faces backlash on twitter after "Whiteplaining"

[Whispering 18,865]

12 minutes ago, Alien Tulip said:

Anderson Cooper talks about racism but he doesn't play the victim and he takes time to see their perspectives and the struggles they go through and actually does something about it instead of tweeting about it hence why he doesn't get backlash

 

Anderson Cooper is a news corespondent for one of the top news networks in the world. He is paid to spend hours every day focusing on the current news, which often times includes racism. Anderson is paid to "do something about it". This is not a valid comparison in any way. 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 minute ago, Sinsemilla said:

Damn white people can't ****in win in these situations. It's like if he doesn't say anything, it's "oh you're part of the problem ignoring racism and sweeping it under the rug u must take a stand" so he says something and now it's "take a seat doughboy not ur place to have feelings." It's impossible to please everyone, may as well give up on doing "the right thing" cause everyone's opinion differs on what the right thing is, even amongst poc/sjws

Don't get too worked up.

There's a significant number of people who suffer from minority-philia here.

[Alien Tulip 12,428]

Just now, LebaneseDude said:

LOL the incredibly false analogy.

Anderson Cooper is a journalist. He's supposed to be impartial and present the experience of the victim as part of his reports.

This is a random person (who just happens to be a celebrity) talking about how he felt about an experience he witnessed.

Get off his case. You're making a fool of yourself.

Trust me I know he's a journalist otherwise I wouldn't have used him as an example. Other journalists don't speak on it and others do but they get criticism for doing so. He actually attended events and colleges with no press and he even used leaders of organizations of minority rights as to be credited as leaders. Sam here wants to be the leader and "shed light" on something he hasn't been educated about.

[NCgaga 4,324]

The overacting is what's disturbing, not Sam smith. He didn't do anything wrong. The people calling him out are the wrong ones, laced with double standards. It's apparent that white people cant even mention the term racism without there being some sort of backlash. How do you over sensitive people expect there to be a change, when all you do is shut down the white people who are actually your allies? What the hell do you want? "Whitesplaining is racist". Now let me hear someone blacksplain how I'm racist, for saying someone is racist. Stupid, stupid over sensitive, over sensationalized, dramatic culture we are developing. This will lead to over censoring and the deminishing of Art. Keep up the good work idiots. 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

3 minutes ago, Alien Tulip said:

Trust me I know he's a journalist otherwise I wouldn't have used him as an example. Other journalists don't speak on it and others do but they get criticism for doing so. He actually attended events and colleges with no press and he even used leaders of organizations of minority rights as to be credited as leaders. Sam here wants to be the leader and "shed light" on something he hasn't been educated about.

Educated about what? You need a college degree to know racism when you see it?

He's a regular mass media-unaffiliated person talking about his own experience and is stating his opinions that are by no means offensive on his own social media account.

[Alien Tulip 12,428]

1 minute ago, LebaneseDude said:

Educated about what?

He's talking about his own experience and is stating his opinions that are by no means offensive on his own social media account.

I never said he was wrong about tweeting his experience but the backlash on twitter, outlets, blogs, etc aren't surprising how with awkwardly he's worded those tweets. He can tweet whatever he wants because he has the freedom to do so but people are always going to find reasons to criticize but I actually understand why some POC find his tweets to be "extra". 

[Whispering 18,865]

2 minutes ago, Alien Tulip said:

Trust me I know he's a journalist otherwise I wouldn't have used him as an example. Other journalists don't speak on it and others do but they get criticism for doing so. He actually attended events and colleges with no press and he even used leaders of organizations of minority rights as to be credited as leaders. Sam here wants to be the leader and "shed light" on something he hasn't been educated about.

Other journalists are very much involved in the fight for minority rights, at both the national and local level. You need to expand your horizons to watching what goes on at the local level in hundreds and thousands of communities across the world. 

In what way is Sam trying to be "the leader"? He said nothing about being a leader in this fight. He was shedding light on the situation he witnessed first hand, that's all. "Shedding light" on a situation you witnessed doesn't mean that you have appointed yourself as some type of leader for the cause. 

[LeoFameMonster 1,592]

Ok so he should not voice his outrage at it and be hurt by it??

I can't with this......Seeing something wrong happening and not doing something about it makes you just as guilty. He saw something bad happen and said something about it.

So I guess anyone who speaks out against racist and their white is "Whiteplaining"

you understand that this thread is racist.... right? or at least you know the damage it causes to people who will read this threat and think maybe I should not speak out against racism or injustice. If I do then I might get attacked for speaking up.

I am totally confused....at the anger towards him.

 

 

[Alien Tulip 12,428]

Just now, Whispering said:

Other journalists are very much involved in the fight for minority rights, at both the national and local level. You need to expand your horizons to watching what goes on at the local level in hundreds and thousands of communities across the world. 

 

This whole sentence right here is based off a judgment from some type of animosity towards me as you don't know my life behind this forum to even be saying I need to be educated as if I'm celebrity or something. We can have a proper discussion if you're taking this thread seriously. I could have listed other journalists as well but I only used his name because it's recognizable on this forum. Everyone with a functioning brain knows that there are thousands tragic events going on throughout the entire planet earth. If you're going to "call me out" for not being educated from that sentence then maybe you should post more threads about the issues that go on throughout the entire world. I'm not saying you should but reminding you and how that sentence doesn't exactly make sense to a random poster on a pop music forum. 

[DrewStevens 5,249]

17 minutes ago, Alien Tulip said:

Anderson Cooper talks about racism but he doesn't play the victim and he takes time to see their perspectives and the struggles they go through and actually does something about it instead of tweeting about it hence why he doesn't get backlash

 

 

Even Anderson Cooper has made this kind of mistakes. He referred to 'no-go zones' in Europe and had to apologize for it after receiving backlash.

[squeala 875]

he's a narcissist

[Lucas 27,188]

Good I don't like him, and the fact that he acted so ridiculously retarded when he got mad at a straight guy who didn't love him back... bye

[Jesse Pinkman 4,660]

My thoughts on the situation is that he was being extra, but I don't think he was wrong for feeling that way. Sometimes you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I think he was better off being silent about this particular situation because it makes him look like he's speaking out for the sake of speaking out. Especially the way he did it because he sort of made it about him. It's also very suspicious that he's doing this around Oscar time during all of this frenzy.. AND he's an Oscar nominee..

Idk its just all too much going on right now.

[Alien Tulip 12,428]

4 minutes ago, DrewStevens said:

Even Anderson Cooper has made this kind of mistakes. He referred to 'no-go zones' in Europe and had to apologize for it after receiving backlash.

A lot of celebrities, politicians, journalists, etc have made mistakes and some apologized such as Madonna, Bran Ferning, Obama, Hillary, etc. 

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