So I am a little confused about how to handle Minaj and Naomi Wolfe and all these folks that are 'awakening.' Are their past actions absolved? Are they really with us because they agree on one issue? Am i supposed to embrace them and forget everything thats happened in the past? Can they be trusted? Misinformation is necessary, how do we know they aeent plants doing the same for the opps? Answer wanted, im feeling confusioned.
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Celebrities are like heat waves or hurricanes—you neither love them nor impotently shake your fist at them. All that matters are the people around them and how we treat those people.
I don't care one way or the other about Nicki, but suddenly there are now large numbers of people just getting their first squinty glimpse of the media lying through their teeth about "their" celebrity.
These people have literally never seen the media lie en masse about anything before. It just never existed in their world before this. Whether you care about the celeb or not, at this point you can sincerely agree with them that their celeb is getting a raw deal in the media, and what the hell's up with that?
You don't have to point out dozens of other media lies, and especially not the ones that they "should have" already seen, because that'll just put them on the defensive and shut down their nascent awakening.
THIS is their awakening moment, and some percentage of them will wake up from this. Let them begin exploring on their own, and they'll discover things for themselves.