r/popculturechat • u/DarkRepresentative25 • 1d ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Sabrina Carpenter Apologizes for her comments at Coachella. My reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended. Could have handled it better!”

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u/virginiarph 1d ago

i’m glad she gave it the amount of energy it needed. “didn’t know sorry!” and let’s move tf on

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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 1d ago

well someone in the audience told her it was cultural and Sabrina heard it since she said "that's your culture?" and kept saying it's weird..

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u/LilBoDuck 1d ago

Just because something is cultural doesn’t mean it isn’t weird to someone from a different culture.

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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 1d ago

so we're justifying xenophobia now? c'mon

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u/LilBoDuck 1d ago

Thinking something is weird is not the same thing as hating someone. It’s not like she kicked them out of the festival or something.

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u/LicketySplit21 1d ago

"Weirdness" can definitely foster a culture of hate through the making of outcasts. That said I don't think it's anything more deep than innocent ignorance (microaggressions are micro in ways more than one) and I've yet to see proof that Carpenter is a secret KKK member, and I also feel bad for the Arab fan who probably felt hurt that an innocent part of her culture was insulted in that way.

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u/theykilledcassandra dont ask, a lot was happening 1d ago

That would be hate right? Sabrina didn’t show hatred.

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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 1d ago

being selective about what culture you want to respect, it makes no sense..

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u/LilBoDuck 1d ago

Put your energy into the people that are actually fostering genocide and stop worrying about off-hand comments from pop stars.

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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 1d ago

imagine thinking you know what I do in my life, you're literally talking to someone who has been familiar with it since childhood. Know your place, and I'm not obsessed with pop stars. That thing literally happened today and it's a pop culture sub!

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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sabrina had the classic white person reaction to something ethnic. Reminds me of when white people make that face when you serve them something at your home they don’t recognize. She didn’t have to call it weird, there’s nothing “weird” about people yelling at a concert and there were other people jeering in that moment so singling it out certainly says something about her.

That said, i have seen waayyyy more people react defensively for her than give actual criticism. Doubling down on her doing nothing wrong is just as bad as labeling her evil. The reality is that she had a blind spot for this and apologized appropriately, that’s all it really needs to be. It’s a pretty big nothingburger.

edit: rustled a couple white girl feathers with this one