i genuinely cannot understand the number of think pieces from self proclaimed jewish people about hudson williams and the swatstika stuff.
like, sure you like him a lot so you’re bending yourself into pretzels to prove he’s not at fault for making light of a symbol that genuinely makes you recoil but you can forgive him and also admit he was immature and stupid and didn’t take those things seriously. i don’t think hudson is the victim of a hate crime or anything; he was 17 and stupid and drunk and it was funny at the time to him and his friends because kids have always been edgy and dumb. he can regret it and apologize and people can accept it or not but you also have to live with the fact that if someone says they do not forgive him for those things it’s not your job to convince them to. you are not his lawyer because he didn’t do anything illegal—just stupid—and if people are hurt by those things it’s not your responsibility to tell them their hurt is wrong because you think there is a conspiracy to harm one person you like because of a tv show. people are not monoliths and one person cannot forgive or explain why he should be forgiven for that whole group. sharing one perspective does not mean all is well in that community with regards to these issues.
the fact of the matter is that hudson claims to be a victim of racism (and i’m not disputing that) but has been quite cavalier about the resurfacing of his own anti-black, antisemitic and homophobic mistakes. i think that the groups affected holding him to a standard he set (as someone who is clearly very racially aware because of his race and the cyber bullying) is not a part of some kind of conspiracy to harm him or his career and it’s not very fair to the people who are affected for him to not seriously consider that hurt and apologize seriously for it without deflecting.
frankly the real question is would you forgive someone you don’t love from tv for the same thing if they used the same excuse? we all know the answer, so let’s not kid ourselves here.










