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  • 2015-12-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Adele White Privilege Petition (en)
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  • On 7 December 2015 the web site National Review published an article titled Petition Demands Adele Admit She’s Successful Only Because She’s White, and Insists She Give Away Her Money, asserting: The National Review's article was concise, primarily including quotes from the petition in question. Not addressed by the piece was whether the petition represented a legitimate effort to elicit such an admission from Adele. It also did not look into who might be responsible for the petition, or even whether any significant portion of Black Lives Matter activists (or people in general) had ever objected to the singer's white privilege. Neither did a range of other outlets that covered the petition, including WND, The Inquisitr, and IJ Review. National Review author Katherine Timpf addressed the petition as definitively authentic, rather than a possible hoax, and wrote: What was true was that a petition titled Adele Needs To Publicly Recognize Her White Privilege was published to Change.org on 30 November 2015. The petition was credited to an individual named Rihanna Jones, who didn't return any hits in a Google search restricted to before 30 November 2015. Jones (or a hoaxer using that name) wrote: A simple way to determine whether the petition was likely a hoax or joke would be to locate any extant complaints of that nature. On 30 November 2015, the web site RollingOut published an article titled Real talk on race: Adele’s talent shouldn’t blind anyone to her privilege (which appeared to be the sum of all examinations of Adele's privilege across the internet.) The article, which was created on the same day as the petition, said: As such, it was true that a 30 November 2015 editorial piece suggested that Adele's success was partly possible due to the fact she was white. However, we were unable to locate any larger campaign to decry the singer's white privilege. Although multiple media outlets covered the Adele petition as legitimate, there didn't appear to be any movement behind it. Moreover, the Rihanna Jones to whom the petition was attributed appeared to not exist (a significant detail elided in coverage of the petition.) It's possible that the Change.org campaign was genuinely created by a person who believed Adele's white privilege enabled her success, but that opinion was neither popular nor espoused by many. (en)
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