She didn’t just endorse Le Pen, she married one of her personal advisors, and was in turn endorsed by Le Pen as well. She was basically a card carrying neofash in her last years. Absolutely awful.
I agree on giving Chappel Roan the benefit of the doubt here, tho. She’s a twentysomething from Tennesee, it’s entirely plausible her knowledge of Bardot had a ton of blind spots. It’s already surprising that she knew about her movies in the first place, this is some ancient mid 20th century stuff. And when we’re talking about a queer woman who was targeted by a harassment campaign over her support for Palestine, i do cut her some slack as long as she handles criticism in a good way. Would be different if she’d double down on things ofc, but there’s a difference between having a milkshake duck moment and defending a reactionary piece of shit when you should know better.
Brigitte bardot is considered a classic sex symbol, at least that’s how I know of her. I’ve never seen her movies but I knew she was a sex symbol from some old movies. I knew nothing of her terrible politics until she died.
She was convicted 6 times for inciting racial hatred. She denied being racist, but she criticized race mixing, immigration, and Islam (“savages”, “invaders”, “destroying us”), so I think it’s pretty clear.
Sort of interestingly she got awards from PETA for her animal rights stance, and from UNESCO for her efforts to combat climate change. I guess racial hatred was more important than those issues though, since she supported people who definitely didn’t help those issues.
Yeah I didn’t know anything about her beyond her being a movie star
Endorsed le pen
I also didn’t know. No reason to know unless you are French tbh
She didn’t just endorse Le Pen, she married one of her personal advisors, and was in turn endorsed by Le Pen as well. She was basically a card carrying neofash in her last years. Absolutely awful.
I agree on giving Chappel Roan the benefit of the doubt here, tho. She’s a twentysomething from Tennesee, it’s entirely plausible her knowledge of Bardot had a ton of blind spots. It’s already surprising that she knew about her movies in the first place, this is some ancient mid 20th century stuff. And when we’re talking about a queer woman who was targeted by a harassment campaign over her support for Palestine, i do cut her some slack as long as she handles criticism in a good way. Would be different if she’d double down on things ofc, but there’s a difference between having a milkshake duck moment and defending a reactionary piece of shit when you should know better.
Brigitte bardot is considered a classic sex symbol, at least that’s how I know of her. I’ve never seen her movies but I knew she was a sex symbol from some old movies. I knew nothing of her terrible politics until she died.
She was convicted 6 times for inciting racial hatred. She denied being racist, but she criticized race mixing, immigration, and Islam (“savages”, “invaders”, “destroying us”), so I think it’s pretty clear.
Sort of interestingly she got awards from PETA for her animal rights stance, and from UNESCO for her efforts to combat climate change. I guess racial hatred was more important than those issues though, since she supported people who definitely didn’t help those issues.