What it boils down to for me is that they would rather judge a photo of a 17-year-old biracial kid with a hate symbol drawn on him in a small predominantly white town, versus the 25-year-old man who shows up to anti-Asian and BLM marches, loudly hates AI, likes posts about anti-fascism, reads books about the immigrant experience, writes and directs short films about queer relationships and identity, and watches poignant movies about the human experience from diverse directors. That is the person they want to cancel. They don't care who he is now because it was never about morality. It was always about their dislike of him as a person, as a person of colour, as a man in a loving relationship with a woman, and someone with intellectual ambition.
They hate Hudson because Hudson makes them feel small and insignificant. They hate Hudson because he shouldn't be more popular than his white co-stars. They hate Hudson because he doesn't adhere to their conventions of attractiveness, aka white. I mean, it shouldn't surprise you that the majority, if not all, of his haters stan only white men. I don't include kpop stans because they are some of the worst perpetrators of anti-Asian rhetoric, they just don't realise it.
So, they can keep doing this but I'm still going to stand with the 25-year-old Hudson of today.
Hell, I'd stand with 17-year-old Hudson and tell him, it'll be okay.
Because unless you've been the only minority in a mostly white group/town, you have no idea how much you put up with and smile through. Even at 19-20, I put up with so much because it was easier than fighting every single person. No, even at 24, I stayed silent when my family were being racially profiled on a train full of white people in the middle of Europe because it was safer not to make a fuss and get off the train. Anyone who can't see the nuance in that is either wilfully ignorant of experiences outside of their own or has incredibly white privilege.
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