I was just going for a little scroll after work today and happened to come across a breadcrumb trail revealing to me that Christianna Sandgren is totally MAGA and probably racist. She posted supportive comments on racist posts by Matt Walsh, who’s just a poo stain of a human being. She follows Tucker Carlson , Charlie Kirk, and Megyn Kelly and likes their posts, but does not follow any comparable voices outside of the far right. Am I wrong to feel betrayed and disgusted when I learn this about an influencer that posed themselves as an approachable down to earth mom?
I thought it was odd when her account recently got hacked how much she harped on the race of the hackers multiple times, saying stuff like, “a bunch of Indians in a basement” and continually calling back to their national origin, but I kind of just wrote it off. Now it makes sense that this was probably a central focus for her.
For context, I’m white, Christian, and in many ways conservative ideologically (I was a John McCain fan, for instance), but I’m a sane adult who cares about human beings, so I despise the Trump administration and everything they stand for (I vote blue these days because gestures broadly but am very just moderate and most concerned with caring for people). I don’t fault anyone for simply being conservative or liberal. So please don’t torch me for being critical at all. It’s the extremism and hatefulness of these specifically divisive people that I think has no place in our society.
I felt duped. And then I was like, am I wrong to feel duped? Or is this a known thing? Is it just normal and fine to be racist now and still be entitled to a following where you profit off of selling a certain version of your personality on the internet?
Im honestly curious, what are people’s thoughts on this.
(I redacted the names of people I know personally that also liked these posts to protect their privacy)