What staggers me is that he actually says in his stories that before this last week that he essentially never thought about race issues or white privilege. How can that be true? Did he honestly not reflect on racism for a moment after Clemmie’s unmasking as a secret racist troll? Did he not think about his/their privilege then and how monumentally wrong her online remarks were and why they were drawing such huge criticism? No...before the last few days he never took a single moment to think about issues of race and racism in the uk and where he and his wife fit in. Such a complete lack of awareness of anything outside their own #gifted bubble. It honestly says everything about him and his vile wife.
I think a lot of influencers (and tbh their fans judging by hun comments) genuinely believe that detractors are simply jealous of them, not fellow members of our society who can engage in a fair and nuanced discussion about rights / wrongs. Like influencers have transcended from mere mortal presence into almost a celebrity like bubble, they are just freelance sales reps tbh but I think there is something SO powerfully intoxicating about these people being presented as the roadmap for what we should have? It’s created a really fucking weird and toxic environment for many reasons (mental health & debt for women who can’t keep up the worst imo) but for the influencers it means they operate in two modes - either complete adoration or cancelled / public disgrace once you’ve gone past the point of no return.
They’d probably benefit if there was more of an open dialogue around these issues as no one is expecting us all to undo centuries of oppression and our own childhood socialisation overnight, they just want you to do better. I have no doubt Clem could have done a real baddie to goodie transformation if she put the work in, HOWEVER in doing that I think that they’d have to challenge the wider influencer industry - eg why are these events just full of rich white women, why are we getting free renos let’s do up a women’s shelter, etc etc. And no one wants to do that, she doesn’t want to be a person of note for anything other than the freebies...
I agree they are utterly vile. You have to laugh though as the house of horrors is now like a horrible prison / museum of yesteryear, it’s already horrible dated and half complete - like a throwback to the glory days of insta mamahood queendom and Pinterest board creation. I would be stressing the fuck out about what happens if XYZ of their high end freebies needs maintaining on their significantly reduced salaries, it’s like when lottery winners end up bankrupt
. We count ourselves lucky in our house that we have a dining room too!!
