.@filmystic and I went there // Oscars 2018 – How Three Billboards Finds Itself Suddenly a Target https://t.co/GWvHHEmbwJ
— Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) January 11, 2018
-Says that as a white woman, she's learned to listen so she trusts the high placement from the Black Film Critics Circle and the African American Film Critics as some sort of proof that the film doesn't sloppily handle race issues because "Why would they not know racism when they see it"
-Thinks that the current backlash to Three Billboards is unwarranted and only coming from coattail activists: "I’ve been around the block enough to spot when some people pretend to give a crap about police brutality while a lot of them only want to bring down a movie that they see as a threat to another film that they want to win"
-Also thinks that all the naysayers have overlooked that Sam Rockwell's character is a closeted gay man
Which prompted a response from Daily Beast writer Ira Madison
Stop saying that, Ira. You're either confused or else willfully trying to misrepresent what we wrote.
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
Nowhere does the piece even imply that AAFCA speaks for all black critics or all black people. Good lord, what a simpleminded, aggressively chip-your-shoulder thing to suggest. https://t.co/n1JppTAnaf
I know how to read. pic.twitter.com/cmgcjIRFsQ
— Ira Madison III (@ira) January 13, 2018
I do apologize for not noticing two people had written it. Be blessed.
— Ira Madison III (@ira) January 13, 2018
Tell me what I wrote that is racist. Show me the fuckin words.
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
You're mad some people find merit in a movie you hate. So everybody who disagrees with you has gotta neccesarily be a racist?
Youre right: Not every black critic likes Three Billboards.
Are those who do racists? https://t.co/FQi7oiH5J3
You've lost you mind over a movie opinion that diverges from yours. What a strange spectacle.
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
Now you're shitting on Detroit too? Is everyone who likes and admires Detroit a "racist" now too?
You're so brave, screeching "RACIST!" at anyone who disagrees w/ you about a movie. https://t.co/FQi7oiH5J3
Again, I won't stand back and let you spout a bunch of bullshit that we never wrote and then you feign concern about the fiction that YOU invented.
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
Sasha said *some people* don't care about Dee & Jordan. That's a fact and you know it. You twist that into NOBODY cares. Stop it. https://t.co/n1JppTAnaf
While Stone did not press the issue (though she did later thank Adams for being a "true blue friend"), Ryan Adams would just. not. let. it. go
I’m not apologizing for anything, I never called you racist I called the piece racist and misguided. Have a good day.
— Ira Madison III (@ira) January 13, 2018
This is exhausting and so are you
— Ira Madison III (@ira) January 13, 2018
You're a smart guy, Ira. Are you so smart and so smug in your smartness that you think two grown-ass adults like me and Sasha are so much stupider that you that we don't understand how awards are voted upon? You honestly think we think all critics are of one mind about anything? https://t.co/HC97Ilmu50
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
Right? You probably should've stayed the fuck away from me. Save us both all this aggravation.
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
You wanna waltz around like your Alexander Woollcott, jabbing your finger at things you disdain and calling people racists if a phrase rubs you wrong. Nah dawg. Not with me you don't. https://t.co/nmG9q2mcqZ
Because he's tired of the mess he stirred up @ira has granted me special dispensation to be one of the whites who is allowed to write (allegedly) racist stuff but be absolved from being labeled an actual racist. Not a lot of people have this honor. Really just me and Tarantino. https://t.co/mJp23qFbhK
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
Thank you for this. It was no fun for me. It was a minefield. So many things I want to say, and no matter how careful I am to say it, there will be ways to turn it back on me and make me look like the evildoer. Privilege is great, sure, no doubt. Until it's mocked as leprosy.
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
And it seems like he doesn't even know who Ira is
Nah, he's a bid deal ... he runs a famous liberal podcast apparently
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 13, 2018
Although I never heard of him till last night
I just don't want him to think he can go on his podcast and telll 20,000 listeners that Sasha and I are closet racists because of some movie he despises.
And then the two of them went and wrote another article about being called out where they really didn't learn anything
Season Finale of Feud!
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 15, 2018
On Getting Called Out https://t.co/0DzERMWhFN
-They somehow think that Ira mistook their original piece as a response to an article he wrote back in December
-Don't believe their original piece warranted his "attack", and they characterize him as being "loud" in the twitter fight
-Stone apologizes if she gave the impression of believing that the BFCC and AAFC spoke for all black critics, for getting Adams involved, and for not considering all angles. It's couched in so many backpats though.
-Ponders if the advent of black storytellers means white voices like hers should back off
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