John Cusack was assaulted by police while filming a protest. [Dlisted]
Lorde acknowledges that many celebrities are performative with their activism, but still speaks out about police brutality & justice. [Just Jared]
Lainey on racism, white-adjacency, and recognizing our biases. [LaineyGossip]
I loved Angelina Jolie’s fashion for the Maleficent promo! [Go Fug Yourself]
The NYPD arrested a CNN journalist & held him for six hours. [Towleroad]
Drag Race has crowned a new winner & everyone loves her. [OMG Blog]
Jake Paul is not the story. [Pajiba]
K-Pop Stans crashed a Texas police department’s app, OMG. [Jezebel]
Someone named Lexus Shayden is returning to Unexpected. [Starcasm]
The Stonewall Riots were anti-police too. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Cops didn’t like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike.
Ahhm here’s the audio pic.twitter.com/tfaOoVCw5v”— John Cusack (@johncusack) May 31, 2020
Legitimately surprised that they went for a white guy, and a famous one at that.
A lot of the perpetrators of the violence were white (despite what Trump and the right wing want people to believe), so it tracks to me. I can’t imagine he was highly recognizable in that moment of chaos.
I also think there’s a lot of bad actors sowing discourse (ahem Russia). The longer these riots go on the better for Trump, but obviously worse for humanity
Absolutely true, My shock is directed at the fact that the cops used force on him. They’re usually pretty gentle when dealing with white dudes.
So no black people are angry? You sound like trump.
Because he’s backing a black cause, they will be harsh to him for his participation.
That’s it. However, based on the hundreds of videos that I’ve seen from different protests this week, white people have been effective shields for Black protesters. The cops see white skin and are like, “oh sorry, lol.”
^^exactly.
Matt McGorry was shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet. I’m not sure if I can post links but it’s on his Instagram page.
…and they hit his bike…what happen to him. Where are they now file
Omg I just saw a white man crossing the street to his flat being dragged for blocks. And he was white.
I think the theory that they are on a police quota to arrest as many people as possible might be true. They also have different uniforms which suggests they might be private security + public funded officers
Lainey’s take is a very myopic north American view. It’s like she doesnt believe racism exists outside of the western world which is obviously not true. She is right that non black people of color are 100% capable of racism towards black people but that’s not only true in western countries. My friend, who is black and very well traveled, went to China last year and said he had never experienced as much racism as he did in China. As someone who is half vietnamese I can tell you racism towards black people is a world wide problem.
China is a terribly racist country.
Yeah, I’ve lived all over the world, racism exists in many forms absolutely everywhere. It’s actually really interesting living in other cultures because you tend to notice racism / xenophobia that (a) you’re not accustomed / desensitised to and (b) that is in some places aimed at you, way more. That then can open your eyes to the racism in your own country more.
Although, I’ve just read Lainey’s piece and I’m not really seeing your issue with it? She’s writing from a North American standpoint and isn’t making claims about the rest of the world. So why can’t she talk about the specific racism in North America?
Yeah, but she’s not saying there isn’t? She’s talking specifically about the North American fallacy that all racism is white vs black, when in reality there are levels of racism based in North American culture. In America, Asian emigre are treated with a very different set of prejudices than those aimed at black and Latino cultures, and even among the Latino community, there’s splits among Latin American with indigenous roots vs European, etc, etc. At the bottom of that hierarchy are black Americans, who have been treated despicably for hundreds of years in the country, to the point where I’m not certain they could be remotely compensated for what they’ve gone through. Her point is that we all need to be aware of our position in a society and how we may directly or indirectly contribute or even benefit from racism.
I mean, yes, racism exists elsewhere. I doubt she believes otherwise, but her experience is North American, so that’s her frame of reference – especially since the context is the wave of white supremacist oppression going on under the current American administration. It’s a little disingenuous to accuse her of being myopic when America is the one currently dominating news cycles for its spasms of racially incited violence.
My interpretation if what she was saying is that non black POC are only racist bc her proximity to white supremacists which I think is passing the buck. Lainey spent every summer growing up in Hong Kong, she is not removed from that culture, a culture that is also steeped in deep seeded racism. Yes what’s happening in America is dominating headlines but to suggest that any racism that she has ingrained in her is solely bc of proximity to white supremacists doesnt sound accurate. Again, I’m half vietnamese and my relatives in Vietnam arent the most welcoming to black people and that has nothing to do with white supremacists.
This is completely off topic, but it looks like he got an eyeliner tattoo.
I admit I liked his movies – all of them. But I live in a divided house. Cusack dated my wife’s friend in the early nineties. He was a real douché. So she hates him. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
“Somewhere in the middle lies the truth” lol so true
He’s known for being a douche towards women, I thought? Jennifer Love Hewitt had a funny story about their date a long time back.
I live in Chicago and call bullshit on John Cusack. His publicity seeking actor bullshit is an insult to those of us who are traumatized as our city fights to remain safe and whole.
All I want to hear out of his self centered mouth begins and ends at BLACK LIVES MATTER
Sounds like the cops in hand to hand combat mode in a war zone, against a bumbling white tourist. Go home John.
Cusack is both a Bernie bro and a ‘5G causes coronavirus’ conspiracy loon.
He’d be better off donating some of his many millions to good causes.