Ethel Cain Apologizes For Racist Past & Other Allegations In New Statement

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Hayden Anhedönia—AKA Ethel Cain—has addressed allegations of racism and inappropriate behavior after screenshots of past tweets and Curious Cat answers resurfaced on social media this week. In a statement shared on a Googe Doc this afternoon, Cain took accountability for her actions while also clarifying some allegations that she said were fabricated.

A screenshot from Q&A social media platform Curious Cat showed that in November 2017, someone anonymously asked Cain if she had ever said the n-word before. She responded, “in all honesty yes lmao.” In a different Curious Cat screenshot from January 2018, someone commented, “LMAOOOO now you mocking hispanic people,” to which she replied, “build that wall!” A photo of a homemade t-shirt that read “LEGALIZE INCEST” also surfaced. It then led to other accusations, including that a drawing Cain made as a teen of a BDSM Chibi was “child ****ography.”

In her statement, Cain acknowledged that while making the incriminating posts at 19 years old, she was “entirely aware” of what she was writing online. “I spent my later high-school years being extremely progressive and ‘SJW’ as they called it at the time, as a way to reject the indoctrination of my environment and rebel against the prejudice, hatred, and ignorance of the culture I grew up in,” she explained. “After moving out of my parents’ house, I fell into a subculture online that prioritized garnering attention at all costs. I flip-flopped again, rejecting all notions of my former ‘cringe SJW’ behavior and intended to be as inflammatory and controversial as possible. I would have said (and usually did say) anything, about anyone, to gain attention and ultimately just make my friends laugh.”

Cain apologized for her actions, writing, “All I can say is that I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart, to anyone who read it then and to anyone reading it now. Any way you feel about me moving forward is valid.” She added that she looks back at this period of her life “shamefully,” and has done her best to “bury it” as she feels “strongly that no good can come from it.”

While Cain apologized for her faults and took accountability for her wrongdoing, she also pointed out that her past posts resurfacing are “not the actions of a well-meaning individual concerned by something they discovered easily and casually on the internet.” Instead, Cain believes these screenshots were “obtained through extensive digging, hacking, and cooperative effort amongst a group of individuals who do not care who else is hurt by witnessing this media as long as [she is] ultimately hurt the worst in the end.”

She divulged that personal social media accounts have been hacked and her family has been doxxed and harassed; photos of herself as a minor and “intimate details” of her past have also been shared without her consent. “I am an adult and I can take accountability for my actions, but this goes beyond accountability,” she wrote.

 

Full statement here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12EupvuRDZBU8zw4cXU6nJI98Uu9VwmYHsFjCNpEAoSY/mobilebasic?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLcuJ5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp-UPMUji723sDA_q6rOzGH7Fo7tju4l1taiVEzwAhED-nDE2K_1Pm4DB8gnI_aem_mwcEDZM2eh-6a3QsX7e5Ig

 

article source:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/ethel-cain/ethel-cain-apologizes-for-past-racist-comments-addresses-other-allegations-in-new-statement

[alsemanche 94,701]

I'm glad she didnt stay silent about the racist posts and her statement about that is very well worded. It's rare to see celebrities take accountability and apologize so sincerely. That being said, it's not my place to accept her apology or not but the response seems positive from what I've seen.

As for the rest... I truly fucking hate transphobes beyond belief. To force her to reveal such traumatic and personal information about herself and her past because a group of disgusting people decided to twist her art and make them into such horrific allegations is so pathetic and I feel terrible for her. I hope she manages to recover from that well and that it doesn't lead her to shut down so much that it would affect her art and the way she shares it because she's truly one of the most outspoken artists out there rrn. Stan culture can be so horrible so often and for what?

[Bronco 13,530]

Its right she's apologised, and its good that she's contextualised without excusing it. 

But this is where I get fed up of this kind of terminally online leftism.

This kind of childish past shouldn't be a permanent noose from which to hang someone for social clout to prove how progressive you are.  If that person is a genuinely different person from then, and that the change in behaviour and morals is evidenced. Accept them for having grown and coming around to doing the right thing. 

 

[Windowlicker 3,639]

She's shown through her actions over the years that she has since evolved from whoever she was as a teenager. That means more to me than any apology, honestly. Real action. She's constantly using her voice and platform to speak on issues a lot of artists simply will not. And doing so as a trans woman in the US is especially a huge risk. Something really needs to be done about these psychotic TERF accounts that have been targeting and attacking trans artists, because she is not the only one this has been happening to.

[ActualPatient 1,972]

Lovely apology. But also:

2 hours ago, alsemanche said:

 That being said, it's not my place to accept her apology or not

💜

[chronic 174]

Not surprised ********* didn’t make this thread. 

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5 hours ago, alsemanche said:

I'm glad she didnt stay silent about the racist posts and her statement about that is very well worded. It's rare to see celebrities take accountability and apologize so sincerely. That being said, it's not my place to accept her apology or not but the response seems positive from what I've seen.

As for the rest... I truly ****ing hate transphobes beyond belief. To force her to reveal such traumatic and personal information about herself and her past because a group of disgusting people decided to twist her art and make them into such horrific allegations is so pathetic and I feel terrible for her. I hope she manages to recover from that well and that it doesn't lead her to shut down so much that it would affect her art and the way she shares it because she's truly one of the most outspoken artists out there rrn. Stan culture can be so horrible so often and for what?

uhm Ten Love Songs profile picture, sorry of topic but taste.

[LadyxGaGa 2,570]

wait why does her boyfriend have to make a statement too. what did he say 

[Bully Pop 216]

1 hour ago, LadyxGaGa said:

wait why does her boyfriend have to make a statement too. what did he say 

Her boyfriend was dragged into it, they claimed he was soliciting minors or something. It’s all very anti-trans rheotric coded.