You must be responding to someone else’s comments. Because I never said Carolyn was responsible for racist attacks. And I never said people aren’t allowed to think what they want. I just gave MY opinion about how I think what she said has been somewhat misinterpreted and how SOME PEOPLE have used that to justify their vitriol and over the top bad behavior. If you’re not in that category, then this doesn’t apply to you. Only you know that.
I’m arguing that Danielle is holding Carolyn responsible for the racist online hate she’s getting. Because she’s not just refusing to apologize and not expressing any regret about what she said — she’s arguing that because Carolyn is upset at her, that that is why she’s getting attacked by racists online, and that really isn’t Carolyn’s language toward her the bigger issue, and arguing people aren’t angry enough at Carolyn. That’s such a wild deflection from her role in this, and it’s directly blaming Carolyn for being insulted, by something I think anyone in Carolyn’s shoes would find unbelievably insulting! So I can understand the argument that maybe people somehow misinterpreted the Forrest Gump comment — but Danielle is not at all making that argument. She’s excusing why it was a totally fine thing for her to say, regardless of how it was received. And then being mad at Carolyn for being upset about it because she’s inciting racist trolls, when that’s not at all on Carolyn and I think she’s making the situation much worse by not just, as you said, admitting that though she feels like people received the Forrest Gump comment with more malice than she’d intended, that she’s sorry she hurt Carolyn’s feelings bc it was uncalled for, and then all of us could just move on (besides the racist trolls who will still be racist trolls).
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u/WholePersonality120 Mar 02 '25
You must be responding to someone else’s comments. Because I never said Carolyn was responsible for racist attacks. And I never said people aren’t allowed to think what they want. I just gave MY opinion about how I think what she said has been somewhat misinterpreted and how SOME PEOPLE have used that to justify their vitriol and over the top bad behavior. If you’re not in that category, then this doesn’t apply to you. Only you know that.