Thread by @nipsey

With the release of #THEM this week, I see that L*na W*ithe slander is at an all time high. I feel like hating on L*na is mostly performative at this point. There is no reason for folks to be this upset about her or her art.

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I'm not even a fan of hers like that. The Thanksgiving episode of "Master of None" deserves all the accolades it received. It was excellent. But everything of hers I've seen since then has been mid at best. But that's okay. I just haven't felt any of those projects.

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But folks out here act like everything she's involved with sets Black people back 50 years. And that is simply not the case. People love to pick their faves on this app and if you are not one of them, you get that undue slander.

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And L*na isn't one of their faves. They just don't like her. You can be critical of her work. But folks really are out to slander her and I don't understand why.

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Which brings me back to #THEM. L*na is an executive producer on this show. Little Marvin is the creator and showrunner. But Twitter wants to drag her for the creative elements of this show. Why?

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Because people are predisposed to hating her. It doesn't matter what she does. Folks already hate her so they will find a way to slander her on this here app. It's old and it's tired.

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I have to wonder, of all the people here complaining about the show and L*na, how many actually watched it. I've watched the show and I don't see where the outrage is? It's a series that depicts horror and the trauma suffered by the characters.

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I don't see all this "Black trauma porn" folks keep talking about. The violence is is no more gratuitous than most horror films. There are plenty of film & entertainment options that aren't this "Black Trauma Porn", folks like to cite. Y'all just don't watch them.

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