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“Fans” of the alliterate former actress turned royal are sending tips to tabloids which trash the woman who called out the canceled north of the border stylist/host.

Royal: Meghan Markle

Being trashed: Sasha Exeter

Border stylist/host: Jessica Mulroney

Can a Crisis P.R. Team Get Jessica Mulroney Back on Track?

Last week Exeter said in her Instagram Stories that she’s been battling trolls on her account since she came forward about Jessica’s actions. On Tuesday she posted a picture of her daughter to the account. “I want to raise a daughter who knows herself because she knows where she came from. I want her to be comfortable in her own skin because she understands and knows black is beautiful,” she wrote as a caption. “But most importantly, I want her to forever have these innocent eyes and bright smile as she navigates the world.” – Source

What Happened to Sasha Exeter

On Friday, Kathleen wrote a piece at Refinery29 about what Sasha Exeter shared on Instagram last Wednesday and how certain media outlets have covered the story. Many of them, from Vanity Fair to The Telegraph to the Canadian Press, have been characterising Jessica Mulroney leaning into her white privilege against Sasha Exeter as a “dispute” and you know how loaded that is: the picture that emerges from these kinds of headlines reduce the egregiousness of Jessica’s actions to two women scrapping over Instagram, thereby minimising the racial inequalities from where white privilege derives its power.

A friend of mine, however, pointed out to me that there are other words worth examining when discussing what happened to Sasha Exeter – specifically the words that Sasha, herself, used in describing how Jessica bullied her. In her Instagram video, Sasha said that:

“Listen, I’m by no means calling Jess a racist. But what I will say is this: she is very well aware of her wealth, her perceived power and privilege because of the colour of her skin. And that, my friends, gave her the momentary confidence to come for my livelihood in writing.”

Notice how, during this part of her story, when she’s recalling Jessica’s threats, Sasha prefaces by establishing that she is NOT “calling Jess a racist”. She goes on to describe how racism works – the combination of skin colour with power and privilege – but she starts off by telling people that she’s not here to declare that Jessica Mulroney is a racist. Not unlike how Samantha Marie Ware described Lea Michele last week in her interview with Variety:

“Does Lea even know what a microaggression is? I don’t know. All that her apology did was affirm that she hasn’t learned anything. Am I calling Lea a racist? No. Does Lea have racist tendencies? I think Lea suffers from a symptom of living in this world in an industry that is tailored to white people.”

It’s an interesting choice, and whether or not it was intentional, Sasha Exeter’s eight words, “I’m by no means calling Jess a racist”, make the rest of her story more palatable to white people, the very people who need to be convinced that what happened to Sasha is racist. And this is because of white fragility. – Source


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