{"id":79738,"date":"2023-03-09T06:01:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/lizzo-slams-silence-supporting-transphobia-racism-and-fatphobia\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T06:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:01:16","slug":"lizzo-slams-silence-supporting-transphobia-racism-and-fatphobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/lizzo-slams-silence-supporting-transphobia-racism-and-fatphobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo slams &#8220;silence&#8221; supporting transphobia, racism and fatphobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/lizzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizzo<\/a> has referred to as out the \u201ccomplicit silence\u201d in opposition to a number of beliefs together with transphobia, racism and fatphobia by a rant on social media.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/lizzo-special-review-joyful-superstar-uplifts-with-self-assured-self-empowering-bops-3270388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizzo \u2013 \u2018Special\u2019 assessment: joyful celebrity uplifts with confident, self-empowering bops\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/lizzo-announces-fourth-album-special-with-video-for-new-single-about-damn-time-3205445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018About Damn Time\u2019<\/a> singer took to Twitter on Wednesday (March 8) to share her ideas on the subject, kicking issues off with \u201cTransphobia is lookin real rooted in racism right about now\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Transphobia is lookin actual rooted in racism proper about now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzo\/status\/1633466806076870656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She would comply with up that assertion with a separate tweet explaining: \u201cI\u2019ve never heard a person say why they\u2019re racist\u2026 Or fatphobic\u2026 I\u2019ve never heard a reason why someone is transphobic\u2026 I think if we knew \u2018why\u2019 these people felt this way there would way less support for these ideals. Because the \u2018why\u2019 is more insidious than we realize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo concluded, writing on Twitter: \u201cDon\u2019t get it twisted \u2014 I don\u2019t care why people are bigoted. That\u2019s a waste of my imagination. I feel like there\u2019s a lot of complicit silence and apathetic participation going on that wouldn\u2019t fly if people knew more.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don\u2019t get it twisted\u2014 I don\u2019t care why persons are bigoted. That\u2019s a waste of my creativeness.<\/p>\n<p>I really feel like there\u2019s loads of complicit silence and apathetic participation happening that wouldn\u2019t fly if folks knew extra. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CxcLi86qnL\">https:\/\/t.co\/CxcLi86qnL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzo\/status\/1633478415574614016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lizzo has lengthy spoken out about related points surrounding social justice and inclusivity, notably selling a number of assets and charities supporting these causes by her web site <a href=\"https:\/\/propeller.la\/lizzolovesyou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizzo Loves You<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, Lizzo lashed out at Texas\u2019 anti-transgender laws and abortion insurance policies in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/beck-lizzo-keynote-speakers-sxsw-2022-3162630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keynote speech<\/a> at SXSW. \u201cI\u2019m proud to rep Houston but I\u2019m not proud to rep Texan politics right now. There are very regressive laws being passed,\u201d Lizzo stated.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019re taking away the right for young children to have a chance to live authentically as themselves. It\u2019s a violation of human rights. Trans rights are human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most just lately, the singer hit out on the deliberate return of the Victoria\u2019s Secret trend present, which had been sidelined since 2019 resulting from lack of inclusivity and variety. Following the announcement of the style present\u2019s comeback, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzo\/status\/1632379676566999040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizzo wrote on Twitter<\/a>: \u201cThis is a win for inclusivity for inclusivity\u2019s sake But if brands start doing this only because they\u2019ve received backlash then what happens when the \u2018trends\u2019 change again? Do the CEOs of these companies value true inclusivity? 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READ MORE:\u00a0Lizzo \u2013 \u2018Special\u2019 assessment: joyful celebrity uplifts with confident, self-empowering bops\u00a0 The \u2018About Damn Time\u2019 singer took to Twitter on Wednesday (March 8) to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}