It would behoove celebrities to recognize the universal truth that August is the worst time to wild out on social media, because nothing else is happening, so everyone is payingEarlier this week, Arqu
ette tweeted, “I’m sorry I was born white and privileged, It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame”— a tweet I’d love to show you for your own eyes, but cannot, because Arquette has locked her Twitter account after days of harassment. Theapparently told her to do this, but not a single media source has been able to corroborate this with the federal agency. The attacks, according to Arquette, have been worse than the attacks against her during the Weinstein reckoning.
All... right. In any case, Arquette’s statement is the kind of statement made with the best of intentions, but the delivery—as always!—needs work. Is Twitter the correct medium for a personal or public reckoning with one’s own whiteness and privilege? Doesn’t seem like it! The careful and delicate dance performed in and around the idea of privilege is too nuanced a discussion for Twitter’s blunt force.
Maybe it would’ve been better if she had kept this one to herself instead of acting like a college freshman who just discovered
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