the music choice was probably locked in long before people started criticizing the VA's for joking about the abbreviation of negative sounding like the N-Word.
there are a few details this anon is missing in their defense of “isn’t she lovely.”
glitch, goose, and some of the vas already had racist pasts online for anyone to see. there was that video of michael kovach (jax) repeatedly using the n-word in a rap skit. sean chiplock (kinger) had multiple tweets blatantly using the n-word. even if the “nega” stream never recirculated, nothing changes. goose knowingly collaborated with people who have documented anti-black history, selected a black song about black fatherhood—inherently black art—and redefined it for her white queer story.
this happens to every facet of black culture. take the product, leave the people.
look at k-pop for instance. they use grills, braids, aave, locs, trap beats, and hip hop, then continuously exhibit anti-black behavior.
labeling our upset as an “i love pancakes, so you hate waffles" take is disingenuous. this suggests you think this is black people getting frustrated at a boogeyman we made up. but that’s not it at all. we’re calling out the whitewashing of black media that is blatantly happening in front of our eyes. we’re calling out gentrification.
you know what? let me put this in a way white queers will understand.
let’s say a lesbian musician wrote a heartfelt wlw song about her wife. it’s very personable, and even features her name in the lyrics. a director with a homophobic past uses that song as the background track to a straight couple kissing in his movie. the fandom then brands the song as that straight couple’s song. any gay person who talks about how the director misused the artist’s song gets told to shut up because songs have many different meanings, and there’s nothing wrong with a homophobic director taking a lesbian’s love song, and applying it to a straight couple. in fact, it’s beautiful sentiment and anyone uncomfortable with the situation is an old man yelling at clouds.
do we see the issue here?
i couldnt have put it better! thank you so much. i didnt really understand exactly what they meant by the waffles and pancakes comment, it seemed to have nothing to do with what i was saying like. at all.
again thanks so much, i truly could not have said it better
