I am not disagreeing with you, I am only pointing out that your comment was unnecessary and an indication of not existing, but still potential hypocrisy of the majority - it is a known issue that if somebody is white, then they are always walking on the edge of being called racist, privileged, -ist, -phobic, and so on. Not speaking for the majority, but in my own personal view, if POC can complain about the lack of diversity, then white people should be able too. Then, it is up to you to decide that it is invalid, wrongful, biased and et cetera, but calling out that someone is white and dares to complain - I am not sure what kind of response one would expect to that. People will always defend themselves, their tastes, their views, their community, all of it. Nobody would say "Ah, yes, that was so privileged and stupid of me, my apologies.", of course people are to defend.
It reminded me of the massive disappointment of my own on this very forum, when I was discussing a very similar issue with a POC and they told me, I quote, to "shut up and watch my mouth, because I am white, so I have no idea what I am talking about, and racism against white people does not exist". The disappointment was not in this person - they have the right to think and believe what they want. The actual disappointment was when they engaged me in private messages and told that a mod apologised to them for the inconvenience. Did a mod apologise to me for a stranger telling me to shut up due to being white after erasing all those messages in the Vogue US thread? No, they did not.
The gist is, in my writing, is that if anybody decides to go "oh, black", "oh, asian" or "oh, white" way of speaking, then they should be ready for the pushback to occur.
I wish this Kristen moment last forever.
