#but back to the wider discussion: yeah these are two things that can coexist

Since my dash is clogged with discourse over the lea interview what I will say is this

"Lea and the rest of the admins went through working for qstudios is horrible, should never have happened and the little we know about quackitys response so far has been lacklustre. Everyone has the right to be upset at what happened and its a good thing that Lea broke the silence about it."

and

"What lea said in that interview was obviously heavily influenced by her anger at qstudios and as such she said some things that didnt need to be said (and no im not talking about what she said about the worker abuse itself, this is moreso about things like her opinion on quackitys response and similar issues). Also many of the things she said felt xenophobic to the latino community, which should be acknowledged. Overall, this makes her seem very unhelpful to the situation at this point."

are opinions that can coexist

#yeahhh #I've already talked about the first half so sort of sorting through my thoughts on the second bit in the tags here #which I'm only doing since it's relevant and on my mind #the more I think about it the more I'm like hmm. actually the comments about the Spanish community actually sucked #and like yeah she did acknowledge that it wasn't the ENTIRE spanish community later on in the interview #but it's something I've seen parroted a lot #and as a Mexican it sucks to see #it sucks to see any community generalized like that but you know #I feel like a lot of folks are getting a little bit too comfortable generalizing entire communities #which... is not great in any situation but particularly in this case #''all the French are ___''#''all the Brazilians are ____''#''All the Spanish-speakers are _____''#etc etc.#it's never good!!!!#I think the community as a whole could benefit from a discussion on xenophobia and some basic 101 courses on how Not To Do That #but alas #I think we all need to be more aware of our comments #and conscious of how things can be seen / how these comments might hurt people #but back to the wider discussion: yeah these are two things that can coexist #QSMP #QSMP Admins #discourse #ehhhh I don't reblog too many of these things since I keep my dash very curated so I rarely see dumb comments #but the comments about the Spanish community have been in my mind the last few hours