Summary
Musician Yasmin Williams posted a viral email exchange with John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts interim director Richard Grenell, who lashed out when she questioned DEI rollbacks and canceled shows under Trump’s leadership.
Grenell accused artists of boycotting Republicans and told Williams, “Don’t be gullible,” and “I’m too busy to confront your vapidness.”
He defended axing DEI, calling it “bullshit” and blaming “woke” programming for financial woes: “Zero in the bank and zero in reserves.”
The Kennedy Center has since canceled 20+ shows, fueling industry outrage.
Yes. it’s truly shocking to me how many people I know, even family, that I thought were good people, they were good people in fact, but now I wouldn’t tell them where I was hiding Anne Frank.
If you became a maga without a traumatic brain injury, you were never a good person.
Don’t think for a second think you can’t be twisted with hate. Something like this could happen to you, too. Nobody is immune. For all of us that grew up with Star Wars none of you learned that Anakin’s tale is a cautionary one, hate is easy for anyone to fall to. Even a Jedi.
But my hate is a pure, well-reasoned hate. An all-consuming hate that doesn’t care about race or gender or socioeconomic background. It is a hate directed at assholes.
How do you expect me to stop hating MAGAs when I can’t even stop hating myself?
I know that I can’t be twisted with hate. There’s absolutely zero chance I’d end up like a maga.
Star Wars is fiction. The only thing I hate is people who willingly support harming other people who aren’t harming anyone themselves.