The YouTuber’s decision to quit has caused a huge reaction online
Jenna Marbles has quit YouTube after 10 years on the platform following calls for her to address racist videos she posted in 2011 and 2012. In avideo titled ‘A Message’, Marble’s apologised and said she will be taking some time to just ‘live and just be’ in order to ensure her content doesn’t hurt or offend anyone in future.
She also apologised for another video that same year where she released a rap song featuring racist slurs against East-Asian people, then rapping ‘sorry that was racist I’m bad at rap songs.’ However, while it is their place to choose to forgive Marbles or not, there is further controversy around white fans joining in on the chorus of forgiveness despite the fact white people cannot ever understand the harm her racist videos did to her Black and Asian fans then and now. Without the lived experience of being Black or Asian, forgiveness is not theirs to give when Marbles has undoubtedly contributed to a culture of offensive comedy that propped up white supremacy.
Ultimately though, for white people, just as it’s not your place to forgive someone for offensive actions that don’t affect you, it’s also not your place to decide that cancelling someone for their racist past is or is not toxic. First of all, whilehas undoubtedly impacted some public figures careers and wellbeing, in the main a trending hashtag or social media movement against a person – especially those who benefit from white privilege – does little to hold them accountable in real life.
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