I can't stand performative allyship, so you can imagine that this week has been especially annoying. I'd honestly prefer that someone not say anything at all than to speak on it and pretend to care to save face or to stop a PR crisis.
If I didn't know anything about racism or white privilege, I would wonder how this girl dug herself in deeper into a calamity that was far less serious that other things happening at the moment.
It was such an easy fix.
Step 1: Apologize sincerely, and vow to be better. Don't try to defend or justify your actions.
Step 2: Educate yourself on the issues, especially when people are offering the information to you FOR FREE.
Step 3: Don't repeat the BS that got you in trouble. EASY PEASY LEMON SQUEEZY.
Step 4 (optional): Get yourself some non-white friends and experience something besides your #aesthetic, white-as-duck world.
I can't remember the last time I saw someone yank defeat from the jaws of victory this hard, and absolutely refuse to let go.
Present company not included, I do not understand white women and their need to be victims all the damn time, even when they are indisputably wrong. White girl tears are very much real, and I have been the victim of them on more than one occasion.
Accountability is hard, and apologizing to anyone who isn't white is impossible. And let's be clear, the idea of apologizing to non-white people, aside from her massive ego, is the real issue. She's pissed that she can't get away with exploiting non-white people's culture, and is expected to be a decent human being toward those (black people) she offended. That is the problem in a nutshell, and that is how I know that Sarah is an unabashed racist. Her white privilege has failed to insulate her from a crisis of her own creation, and she is pissed. She thinks she should be off the hook by now because she firmly believes that her whiteness makes her better than the people coming for her behavior. The irony is that white supremacy and white privilege (her fans defending her against legitimate criticism) largely did what they were supposed to do here, but it's been her own stupidity that has undermined both.