Summary
Musician Yasmin Williams posted a viral email exchange with John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts interim director Richard Grenell, who lashed out when she questioned DEI rollbacks and canceled shows under Trump’s leadership.
Grenell accused artists of boycotting Republicans and told Williams, “Don’t be gullible,” and “I’m too busy to confront your vapidness.”
He defended axing DEI, calling it “bullshit” and blaming “woke” programming for financial woes: “Zero in the bank and zero in reserves.”
The Kennedy Center has since canceled 20+ shows, fueling industry outrage.
I guess that’s par for the course these days, on both sides of the political aisle.
Typical. Arguing with an unreasonable republican zealot, but she has to throw in some both-sides nonsense because she thinks it makes her sound reasonable.
Only way to keep them somewhat unreasonable. Too ego driven and reactive to not use the shit sandwich approach with these fragile snowflakes.
From a purely political perspective both Republicans and Democrats are why we’re in the situation we’re in today.
Sure the Republican Party is objectively worse but it’s like having one pile of shit the size of a house and one the size of a car. Just because one is a bigger pile doesn’t change the fact that they’re both shit.
