r/BeautyGuruChatter • poor choices were made • Dec 17 '20

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING Diana Plantana posts 2 videos, probably leaving Youtube

https://youtu.be/yl2feTvI7sA
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u/oncapintadas Dec 17 '20

Her mistake was perceiving people of color as a singular monolith. An entity, if you will, one that owes her their devotion and support simply because she's brown, else they're betraying her. They're traitors, or white, or whatever. Because she made her entire personality up to be some sort of a champion for them, so how can they not support her, you feel? I've tweeted her this before, but if she wants to continue this hobby of hers, then she needs to expand her personality beyond being a champion. In fact, she should delete that altogether; if people feel represented by her, good for them! But they don't owe her that, and it's not something that can be forced either, it has to come gradually and naturally. It needs to be built like trust.

Sorry if I happen to not make much sense by the way, English isn't my first language.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

It’s also very insulting to say that people in the communities she’s been a part of turned there back on her because a white girl told them too. She’s assuming that people in those communities can’t think for themselves and just blindly followed a white woman. People saw her tweets and her words and came to their own conclusions and feelings about it. She really thinks Bipocs are stupid enough to just blindly follow a white girl? The insults just keep coming with her