1. Lena Wilson really doubled down when there was initial push back and although I am sure a mea culpa is eventually in the works, it's important to remember it never would have happened if there wasn't immense pushback on what she did. Just no self-reflection whats so ever.
2. Almost all of her initial responses to her post were supportive of her. And that support was coming from almost all white people and mostly white women. Fact is, most people have never heard of her except her followers who lived in the same bubble as her and they were all initially supportive but once the story got outside the bubble and there were brown people (mostly black women) coming in defense of Amandla, did the tide begin to turn. What's also funny to watch is there were definitely people who were initially with Lena but switched sides as the story unfolded.
This is such a small story and won't register outside of these particular corners of twitter but it is an example of a white queer woman putting her whiteness before anything else and pulled a Karen. Rather than engage Amandla woman to woman or lesbian to lesbian, she went straight to the public and tried to call her out and shame her.
This is similar to the story DC told about the transwoman calling the cops on him. My theory is that when DC was having his darkest moment at Comedy Central. It was a gay male executive who did him dirty and he has kind of been obsessing over the idea that being gay doesn't necessarily make you an ally. Just a theory.
Anyway, most won't at all find any of this interesting but if you found the turning on and the dunking on Lena Dunham morbidly entertaining, this is more of that. Especially after watching this video of her explaining how she got her job at the NYT (and not mentioning her dad works at the NYT).
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