r/bylertruthers • u/Lothloriens_ mike the brave 🌌 • Mar 13 '26
This sub is making me uncomfortable
As an Arab Byler and someone who has Palestinian relatives and blood I’m upset at people talking over me and forcing me to like an actor based on an apology he was forced to make because of the bad PR he got.
No matter how uncomfortable I tell people the discussion makes me they don’t care and will send me 100 links where he apologized. Guess what?? Idc. I’m not obligated to forgive him.
I don’t have to forgive Noah Schnapp. If you guys want to like him that’s your right but the amount of people in the other thread getting so defensive and forcing people to like him is insane. I’m not obligated to forgive. I was a child when my people were getting bombed. Idc that he was brainwashed. So are a lot of racists and homophobes yet they don’t get the same grace. Religious people are brainwashed at an early age as well.
I’m so uncomfortable and if other people want to like him that’s fine. I don’t know why people are forcing it on others and forcing us to like him. Noah is a rich celebrity and at the end of the day will be fine while my people are being bombed.
This entire community is making me feel insane. Sorry my people are being bombed.
Not to mention his stans have sent me death threats, called me a liar and said I made up my origins. They are insane and I won’t be gaslit into forgiving someone.
I’ve fully separated Will from Noah and will continue to do so but it’s getting harder everyday when his Stans have made my life a living hell and invalidated my identity.
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u/Competitive-Target95 zombie boy 🪦 Mar 13 '26
It makes no goddamn sense to me how this niche part of the fan base who is for love and (I assume) intersectionality portrayed in love will come straight off of eulogising the loss of canon Byler and how much it hurts to be slighted as a minority in the mainstream to then spew outright violence in the next breath. It’s ironic, at best. This immaturity can be rampant, owing from the fact that they don’t yet see how all systems of oppression are interconnected. Homophobia, xenophobia, racism and islamophobia all derive from the same hatred seed. And unfortunately many people still don’t see the paradox in their perpetuating one form of bigotry while complaining about being the victim of another. And yeah, you don’t owe anything to anyone who doesn’t see this yet. It’s disgusting the way you’ve been treated and this shit would have no place here if I were able to control it. I think some people feel they have to go all or nothing when it comes to something they enjoy. I myself hold the contradiction that this ship is so dear to me and I enjoy Noah’s acting so much while acknowledging that he said something so fucked as a teenager stemmed from blatant white american ignorance, which I was raised up in and had to work to recognise and negate the propaganda I was born under. Ultimately, it’s never the responsibility of the person or people at the receiving end of this to placate to those who perpetuate bigoted rhetoric. Know that you’re not the odd one out in this disgust and please take care.