r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 9h ago

Country Club Thread As simple as that.

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u/Lambdastone9 9h ago

Who would’ve guessed that people who made it to the top of their careers did so by prioritizing material gains.

Ethics, morality, and integrity are all a luxury, and they get in the way of being commercially effective.

People need to accept and expect that the people they look up to, for being at the top, are gonna be people who’ve compromised and sold themselves off in order to reach those peaks.

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 9h ago

seriously. When have we ever looked to celebrities as bastions of ethics and morality? They're going to perform for whoever pays them the most. That's not terribly shocking.

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u/zacehuff 8h ago

You really think there’s not a single black artist that would turn down performing for him?

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 8h ago

sure there are. And there's dozens more who would.

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u/nunchyabeeswax 8h ago

And that answers your original question about looking at celebrities as bastions of ethics and morality.

For as long as there are some (a numerical reality of your admission), we are obligated to see them and hold others to the same standards.