Hilaria Baldwin - At it again

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

◄ 1 2 3 ... 290 291 292 ... 614 615 616 ► Go

Go to page...

12/30/2020 19:45

Subject: Re:Hilaria Baldwin - At it again

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I barely knew anything about this woman before other than some fleeting info on a celebrity news piece...I am familiar with the Baldwin brothers just through the years, and, lately, his SNL impressions of Trump (which I liked!) Anyway, I'm a youngish boomer, about Alec's age) so I'm looking at this maybe from a different perspective. I just do not see a story here and I feel that the original tweet and subsequent investigation created a story where there was none. Intrigued and not currently working, and bored from not doing my usual things, I delved into the pieces and "video evidence."

I don't think this woman, Hilaria, conned anyone. The Spanish culture lives largely in her home, very similarly to a lot of my family and friends who are Jewish. Why isn't this the same thing? We all grew up speaking two or three languages, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish- yet most of us have had never been to Israel until adults or at all. My family has a mild accent, and family members in New York really do, yet do not live in Israel. My family calls me by a different name, and many of my friends, who are not Israeli, and not Eastern European, had full-on Jewish weddings with food and drink and language and dress and custom. They've named their kids Hebrew names. They have Judaica artwork all over their houses. Some have visited Israel, some have not. Some have friends and family who live there, some do not.

Additionally, I know many families who have grandparents and great grandparents from Quebec. They also have French names, call their elders Mame and Pepe, and pepper their speech with various French words, and lot of art and food, despite NEVER HAVING LIVED THERE.
Have you watch any television in the last 20 years? What about Italians? RHONJ? I watched one season. For people who never lived in Italy, they sure spoke a lot of Italian,
discussed Italian food, family culture and mannerisms, and had houses filled with marble flooring and Tuscan kitchens.

I went to college with Greek friends who lived an exact lifestyle depicted in My Big Fat Greek wedding with only having great grandparents, or further down the line- great great grandparents, as the only people ever having lived in Greece.

On the one hand, people claim to want to embrace open borders, globalization, and the proverbial melting pot, but when people do, they are called out for cultural appropriation. Why? Being Spanish isn't a race. It doesn't even have to be an ethnicity. It's a country, and a language, with a culture. Isn't that what we are going for?

Look at their wedding. They both embraced a Spanish theme with both of their families there. If she were trying to convey a lie, (and what is the lie anyway?)would she be able to do that in front of her whole family? The wedding announcement had zero info that is untrue. Nothing was ever misappropriated. This family has embraced a Spanish culture for a lot of reasons pertaining to what she's embraced, or chosen, as a member of her family, looking at her father's resume and academic background, and that's that. Her parents felt comfortable enough to actually move there as young retirees. That didn't happen on a whim. Hilaria's Spanish is on par with native speakers. Their kids have Spanish names. Nothing wrong with it. DNA doesn't inform culture.

Nothing this Hilaria/Hillary has been featured in insinuates any lying, and I've taken a good look at the requisite videos, Hola article, her Mom's clip, everything. It seems that various people took out of context items and crocheted them into something that isn't with a pretty accusatory outcome...and it looks like online bullying, unfortunately, which is something I do know about having taught middle and high school. This is nothing less than that and it's very alarming.

Furthermore, there seems to be years worth of bullying regarding her supposed "gold digging " and motives for marrying. I guess that goes with the territory of marrying a celebrity. I'm pretty sure their days look no different than yours, they just have more money to handle it. Sorry! If I were a gold digger, I doubt I would proceed to have 5 kids with a man 25+ years my senior. She loves him. I also notice that her high school friends speak highly of her, no one is calling her out. They are only clarifying questions. Come on. Find something else to hate- maybe that she looks that good after baby#5. I will never look that good, and it's been 35 years since I had a baby.

In summary, stop this "meshuga" bull$#!++, says this woman who can speak Yiddish fairly well, yet holds 0% DNA in anything allowing me to. I wish this family well. Move on.

“I barely know anything about her” - here is a dissertation on the situation and history.

I guess this is where comprehension comes into play and just exactly how most of these people create stories where there isn't one.
Read, if you only would:

I barely knew anything about this woman before other than some fleeting info on a celebrity news piece...

Intrigued and not currently working, and bored from not doing my usual things, I delved into the pieces and "video evidence.

Pretty sure I indicated what most people here have, that she's not really on anyone's radar. For the record, I am in my 60s, so I could give zero crap about babies, her parenting advice, back to body yoga...pretty sure I mentioned that,too.
Then, I mentioned that I did start to read all the stuff, watched the videos, etc., after this erupted- out of sheer curiosity and this endless and pointless thread based upon nothing. The result is my opinion. You might not even recognize a dissertation, sweetheart.

Your issue? Zero attention span, reduced only to small items of text, tweets, and retweets, with opinion, not fact, guiding your entire critical thinking ( or lack thereof) with which you draw conclusions- as you did with my post and most certainly with this story.

What you are good at is trolling only, which very often has terrible consequences for those you decide to make your victims. Grow the f---- up.

So, the problem here may actually be that while you are parroting the "short attention span" sound byte she wants to be parroted, you are pretty inaccurate in saying that false conclusions were drawn based on extrapolations of phrases from tweets and texts. It's more like when Donald Trump says something and then says "no, I didn't" and lots of people just believe him because they want to.

I've followed her for a few years actually. I was taken with her claim of curing her own eating disorder through mindfulness and got her book, followed her Instagram, and listened to her podcasts. It became clear to me very early on she was still very disordered (both related to food and especially exercise) but I kept following/listening because I saw some of myself there (wanting to be better but not being better). But then it was pretty easy to also see she wasn't inconsistent just there so this thread was not much of a surprise. Her own words, written and during podcasts, are plenty damning that she was either trying to be someone else or really wanted to be and often just said what she wished was true vs. what is actually true. It might take an attention span and actually listening to recorded interviews to hear it but it's not subtle.

You don't have to approve of how others are dealing with the information or the glee that some seem to get from it. But don't parrot the attention span line and expect to change any minds that way.