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Official cop out “I’m not educated enough to speak on this issue” message from Vic. Why am I not surprised.
Vic knows naff all about dressing - but she still pumps out over-labelled outfits dailyOfficial cop out “I’m not educated enough to speak on this issue” message from Vic. Why am I not surprised.
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Guys I don’t want to turn this political but I’m so infuriated by this message she posted. She’s literally washing her hands clean by saying “not my monkey not my circus” and it’s repulsive. What a vile human being. I suppose she was an expert on BLM when she posted about that? NOPE but it was popular and came with no repurcussions for her to speak up about it - so she did. So bloody selfish and self driven it makes me sick. Children are dying and because it might jeopardise her PR image she’d rather not use her voice to speak about it because she’s “not an expert”. Good God.
I posted this comment on her last, vapid post but she’ll likely delete it. Duh.
“I just think your last story about not speaking up on the genocide and human rights catastrophe that’s happening is so hypocritical because “you’re not an expert” - you’re not an expect on American politics or BAME and BLM minority politics either but when it was popular or expected you jumped on the band wagon to talk about it. But God forbid you should post about this atrocity and ruin some of your relationships within the PR and Media world which is highly controlled by people of Israeli heritage (I won’t say Jewish because this is nothing to do with Judaism as Jews do not represent the Zionist agenda currently causing this genocide). You won’t speak up because you don’t want to offend people and communities who benefit you here in the U.K., not because “you don’t know enough” - this isn’t an attack. It’s not a rude message. You’re entitled to do what you do or don’t want to do. But I am speaking up against it being dressed up as some bambi-esque excuse rather than it being you washing your hands clean of the moral conscience we all should have to speak up against this, even if it means we lose some relationships or contacts or popularity. It wasn’t popular to speak up during the Holocaust either; but some heroes still did because it was an atrocity and a genocide and the right thing to do. Peace “
Love and thanks your wayYep. Agree with all of this and how eloquently you argued your points.
Yep she has defo deleted it as i cant see your comment on the post!Love and thanks your way
As much as I dislike Vic, I can see that this is a lose lose for influencers. If they do speak up, it gets called performative. If they don’t they are called ignorant.
In reality, could Vic’s voice add anything worthwhile to the discussion?
Guys. It’s Decades long genocide.As much as I dislike Vic, I can see that this is a lose lose for influencers. If they do speak up, it gets called performative. If they don’t they are called ignorant.
In reality, could Vic’s voice add anything worthwhile to the discussion?
Guys. It’s Decades long genocide.
We’re not asking her for a thesis. A simple “I am learning about the happenings and so whilst I do not have much to contribute to the dialogue, I stand up for human rights of all, and that includes the human rights of the Palestinians in Gaza” would he sufficient and received with gratitude. Her virtue signaling of telling us monkeys - go read the news if you want to learn, I have no view and I see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, in the face of genocide and war crimes, is, I’m sorry, but a repetition of all the people who stood quietly throughout history during similar atrocities. There is no equality of arms between the worlds 3rd strongest nuclear super power, and a small “open-air prison” that they call this embargoed piece of land (Gaza) which doesn’t even have an army. The latter is being combatted by the former, so you can appreciate that there is no symmetry or equality in their defence here.
Her post was worded in a way I have experienced people skirting confrontation and accountability of this atrocity for tens of years so please allow me to explain what was particularly thoughtless in her approach:
It refused to even say the word “Palestine” or “Palestinians” because she doesn’t want to affiliate herself with a “side” because she is scared, like most silenced people, of demonstrating that she is choosing one. This demonstrates that she is silent because she fears the repercussion of choosing “the wrong one”
This is the fear mongering that the alt. right has instilled which makes people wrongly believe that this is a Jew vs. Arab problem (it’s not, I’m a Christian and I am against the Israeli occupation), that standing up to the Israeli state sanctioned violence is anti-Semitic (it is absolutely not. Jewish people themselves are in scores condemning the Israeli government and calling to a halt to the apartheid and genocide).
I won’t even touch on the self victimisation, and self centralising she *yet again* employed in her dialogue with a pre-amble on not wishing to state that state sanctioned ethnic cleansing is not a nice thing, because she has been taking steps to protect her mental health ? ? (make it make sense please).
And finally, if someone is more worried about being called “performative” than standing up to an atrocity happening to equal human beings during our time, then that is even worse than anything I can imagine for the state of our society.
During South African Apartheid, during the Holocaust, even during the Suffragettes people risked their lives to stand up for the rights of others - and we are too scared to write down our solidarity and use the same platforms and reach we use to gain commissions, and secure paid-for holidays, meals and clothes, to simply write down a few words saying: “I stand against all forms of genocide, apartheid, and oppression?”
This is not a lose-lose situation. This is an integrity and moral compass situation. And we must all call on our collective conscience to say something, even if we are challenged, because that is how we learn, that is how we teach one another, and that is how we stand up before it’s too late.
Governments get away with murder only through collective apathy, silence, and willful mutedness/blindness.
Thank you for reading if you made it this far
Me personally? To the best of my ability I have been calling on peers, friends and those I follow, and I have been practicing what I preach as best I can. I am no better than anyone, and have a long way to go, however at the very least do not delete feedback, and do not post stories complaining about social morality and the burden of the conscience it brings with it, and why I don’t want to participate in it. Please also kindly do not skirt around the fact that we are talking about someone who understands the weight of 1 million platform well enough to dedicate posts to the magnitude of its effects, and design dedicated hashtags to demonstrate and self document how effective her reach is. Is that reach only worthy of being put to use for fashun? Not human rights then?But how far do you extend it?
Have you questioned every person that you follow on social media (both with a following and without) and held them to the same standards?
What has she done to her face? She looks like a muppet!
Those lips and brows are going to haunt me.
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You said it all better (and more succinctly) than I could lovely!!She looks like Kim Zolchiak in the top photo. Def not a good look.
I don’t think it’s fair to expect influencers to have opinions on real issues because they obviously live in bubbles where real issues don’t affect them. But we live in a world now where social issues are interwoven into all the things these influencers think they’re experts in (fashion, lifestyle, beauty, etc etc). So yeah, at the risk of being performative, speak the duck up. The more she speaks up about anti-racism issues and matches her actions to her words, the less performative she becomes. That’s part of the unlearning, relearning and transitioning into being an ally. By not publicly showing support for Palestinians, she’s making her BLM commentary all the more performative. If she’s serious about doing anti-racism and anti-colonialism work to support BLM, then she has to be ready to support Palestine. Recognizing the privilege she has in life and also platform means taking risks and speaking up for those who can’t or won’t be listened to.
Sending love to everyone in this thread! ❤❤
I think Vic made her situation worse here because she commented saying she’s not going to comment — which is silly. She also did so in such an overtly uneducated and *woe* is me way.
To lighten the mood, I had a looksy at how the “inthefrowfinds” hashtag she made such a fuss over last week is doing....
Not exactly a huge wave of support! More like a tepid response from 1 person editing two old posts she’d already shared. Hmmm!!
Didn't Josie buy a house to rent out in the Cotswolds? I feel like Lydia has been harping on about vacation homes too. I will watch later but I'm going to guess Vic wants to buy a holiday let.Haven’t watched the vlog but wonder if they are planning to move out of MK because now she’s fallen out with Lydia they don’t have friends round there anymore?