Why Was Letitia Wright Dragged More Than ‘Ant-Man’ Star Evangeline Lilly?

[celja]

why was letitia wright dragged more than ‘ant-man’ star / anti-vax marcher evangeline lilly even though she did so much less? https://t.co/hLfANw3jpe
- Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) February 18, 2023

Rolling Stone takes a look at why Letitia Wright has gotten more backlash for her anti-vaccine comments than her Marvel colleague Evangeline Lilly.

Comments

[bleuvelvet]

Evangeline Lilly using the press tour to yet again support the convoy and paint herself as a victim while doing so is galling. Disney PR not trying to cut that out is telling of where they sit on this.

[asnindie]

Letita went on a video rant though. And didn't she go full homophobic too. Let's not make excuses but she has apologized and dragging it up again was suspect.

Also Evangeline is irrelevant. Letita is the star of Phase 5.

[queenursula]

Not sure what you’re reading as that is largely incorrect. She didn’t “go full homophobic”* and she didn’t go on a “full video rant” either, she posted other people’s videos.

*I’m aware that the preacher she shared was transphobic but its pretty obvious Letitia was just doing it for the vaccine reasons, it’s not like she’s been supporting JK Rowling or liking anti-trans tweets elsewhere.

[pwrpuffgrl]

But she follows homophobic and transphobic people on IG, according to a comment above. Letitia is absolute trash and it got amplified because of racism. Those are not mutually exclusive.

[queenursula]

She follows over a thousand people. ”But they follow so and so on social media” is such a ridiculous standard to judge someone by.

But since we’re going by who she follows on social media…

She’s also following Yasmin Finney, a trans actress.

https://instagram.com/yazdemand

Hunter Schafer from Euphoria who is trans

https://instagram.com/hunterschafer

And Amplify Dot/Ashley Charles, a lesbian DJ.

https://instagram.com/thedottyshow

Not going to go through hundreds of profiles but she doesn’t have a problem following trans or gay people.

[tetrazzinichikn]

Neither was dragged enough. Neither should have been given starring roles. But why the fuck are we STILL giving EL a platform to spout her nonsense? Maybe ONTD shouldn’t publish those types of posts.

[hiimtish]

Personally I hope these posts keep coming. As a disabled person I value knowing who deserves my respect and who doesn’t.

It would be different if these posts weren’t overwhelmingly critical of people with these views but I think it’s more dangerous to bury stuff like this bc then it’s just kinda not seen as a problem anymore.

[bttrsondaughter]

[arabian]

The answer is uberly obvious.

Letitia Wright is black.

Evangeline Lily is white.

End of story.

Fuckers.

And anti-vaxxers are idiots.

[sandstorm]

Right like can I be paid 200$ to state the blindingly obvious in 1 word instead of 2.5k?