Yeah that was a mess of an answer but everything about the article just screams that its trying its hardest to make her look as bad as possible.
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Daisy Ridley denies that her privilege made her more confident to navigate her celebrity, compares her experience to co-star John Boyega
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That's the way I interpreted it. Regardless of the quality of the question to some, it was a very revealing answer.
Yeah, ultimately her answer was that it's her "chatty family" that made her confident. Can you say that is privilege without saying non-white families wouldn't have that dynamic?
You should always be prepared to answer difficult questions about your background, it'a her publicist job to make sure she's always prepared and not trot out a symphony on No's
Adam has already addressed this in the below interview:
Oscar is from South America unless you want to lump him in as a white man.
The short version. Absolutely, and I hope she uses this as an opportunity to reflect and deliver a better answer after the media blitz.
That's addressing privilege in general, not this oddly specific and confusing question asking about the origins of her personality.
The subject of that movie meant he was always going to be prepared for these types of questions, I guess.
This.
She refused to even acknowledge this and well she either learns from this and reflects or she will shrug it off and don't.
It was also topical as the interview was about his role in BlacKkKlansman where his character was able to use his whiteness to infiltrate the KKK. The Daisy interview seemed to go from being confident about protecting her private life straight into whether her confidence came from her privilege. She didn't handle it well but the question itself was an odd segue.
Something Daisy could have done but she decided to ignore that and simply say No. It should be a general rule of thumb for white celebs to just acknowledge their privilege and move on
Don't purposely twist my words
I left it open for you to decide if his a white man Half Guatemelan half Cuban you decide
He even acknowledged it in 2015
You know what's bullshit, that as much as the journalist thinks they are fucking woke or some shit for raising 'privilage', they are actually the problem.
'Hmmm... here is an actor in one of the largest films of the decade... Let's discuss with his co-worker about how *poor* he was...'
Kmt, on top of it, lying about facts as well.
Ridley's privilege is that the press is not talking to Boyega about his thoughts on her family background.
Also, quit this racist stance mate
'Hmmm... here is an actor in one of the largest films of the decade... Let's discuss with his co-worker about how *poor* he was...'
Kmt, on top of it, lying about facts as well.
Ridley's privilege is that the press is not talking to Boyega about his thoughts on her family background.
Also, quit this racist stance mate
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I have read several posts like this. "White people are this, white people are that..." I guess stuff like that is allowed here, because its "not as bad". Same with posts like "ACAB" and "All men are...".
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But it wasn't about her privilege as a white women, it was about her going to a boarding school. And it wasn't even about getting roles but about her ability to "navigate celebrity".
I don't even really see the correlation between the two.
As a straight white male I'm like second in the food chain of priveledge right behind straight white people that are offspring of millionaires, I can say having priveledge sure as shit doesn't give you confidence.
Really? Like really? Thats a pretty fucked up thing to say. I fucking wish privilege came with confidence for free, maybe then I would have some.
If you know a system is rigged in your favor, would you not be more confident in your chances to succeed within that system? And conversely if you knew a system was rigged against you, wouldn't you find it more difficult to be confident of your success?
A lot?
Also, what does the question being loaded have to do with anything? A shit answer is a shit answer. It's not the interviewers fault that Ridley has never thought 2 seconds about stuff like this.
"You kinda had it easy, huh?" would offend anyone that works hard. Why even bring this up in an interview?
We're not going to progress much as a society if we only talk about subjects that are comfortable and/or 100% palatable.
In 1988, American feminist and anti-racism activist Peggy McIntosh published "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies". Here, McIntosh documented forty-six privileges which she, as a white person, experienced in the United States. As an example, "I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me", and "I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection". McIntosh described white privilege as an "invisible package of unearned assets" which white people do not want to acknowledge, and which leads to them being confident, comfortable, and oblivious about racial issues, while non-white people become unconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated.[10] McIntosh's essay has been credited for stimulating academic interest in privilege, which has been extensively studied in the decades since.[11]
The question seems ill-intended from the get-go. The journalist could straight out asked if she felt privileged compared to her co-star. Talking about confidence is strange because John comes out as someone much more confident than her and I don't think confidence is directly tied to your privilege growing up.
Until people that work hard understand that depending on where they are from, how they look like, their gender, that someone less fortunate would need to work even harder, nothing will change.
This day n age it really shouldn't be hard to have at least some degree of awareness of the perks of being white and upper class. I mean, come on.
people here aren't cancelling her and you framing it as that is you being over the top.
It also doesn't take into account the fact that she was bullied off of the net simply for being a woman lead of Star Wars, so in that regard, her experience with confidence IS different from John's.
That being said, she should have answered better instead of jumping straight to no, because it can be twisted or misinterpreted to mean "I don't believe white privilege exists", which is not the implication.
Glad he said this. Someone's trying to start an argument as usual.
Fair enough if you think that, I was directing it at some first page replies.
If you frame it as being about them specifically, like this interviewer did, you're not gonna make a lot of friends. It would be easier to appeal to their empathy by saying how hard others have it, instead of being confrontational and giving them the feeling they themselves didn't work hard.
bad answer for sure but also not a particularly damning one, ignorance towards your privilege is pretty common and unless deliberate not that immoral.
Terrible article however as was the framing of the question, there's a way to ask that question w/o pitting her against Boyega.
Terrible article however as was the framing of the question, there's a way to ask that question w/o pitting her against Boyega.
Humans aren't so binary that people handle situations the same way based on skin color. Very few experiences prepare you for becoming the most talked about person in hollywood at a given time, let alone one that's subject to so much harassment from people,
Could you expand on this thought?
I'd like to know why you think it's racist - maybe I'm missing something.
I don't see this as a gotcha question at all. I think she is just in denial and had a terrible answer. I don't blame the interviewer. This was kind of a gift to Ridley in that had she answered favorably she would have looked great. She didn't though and here we are.