Amandla Stenberg says anti-woke warriors & “hyper-conservative bigotry” helped get ‘The Acolyte’ canceled
A post shared by @amandlastenbergI’m going to be transparent and say it’s not a huge shock for me [when ‘The Acolyte’ was canceled].
There has been a rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was even announced, when it was still just a concept and no one had even seen it.
That’s when we started experiencing a rampage of, I would say, hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred, and hateful language towards us.This really affected me when I first got the job.
Because it’s just not something — even though I anticipated it happening — it’s not something you can fully understand what it feels like until it’s happening to you.However, I feel like I’ve kind of moved through those feelings in various ways, including being vocal about it myself. … It just became inarguable for me, at a certain point, that in order to continue to be myself, I would have to honor my value system by being vocal even in the context of working for Disney.It has been an incredible honor and dream for me to be in this universe.
