If you’re reading this, you are currently on the internet. Tina Fey will then tell you, get off it. OK, not really. But kind of. That’s at least in some part the sentiment the Sisters star was getting at in a cover story with Net-A-Porter.
Among the many topics Fey discusses in the piece, she gets into commenting on some of the backlash hurled against her Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, specifically the bands of outrage that sprung up online regarding the revelation that a character played by 30 Rock alum Jane Krakowski was born Native American and hiding her true roots:
“Steer clear of the internet and you’ll live forever,” Fey said. “We did an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode and the internet was in a whirlwind, calling it ‘racist,’ but my new goal is not to explain jokes. I feel like we put so much effort into writing and crafting everything, they need to speak for themselves. There’s a real culture of demanding apologies, and I’m opting out of that.”
Whether you agree with Fey’s sentiment or not (and Vox, which wrote up a post encapsulating this exact portion of the Net-A-Porter cover story, most assuredly doesn’t), she brings up an argument both interesting and fairly common concerning the vast online culture that exists today.
(Via Net-A-Porter, Vox)
