I think everyone needs to leverage their identity to some degree to get ahead of even just make it in this world. We all walk out our doors and put on some sort of mask bc we know being ourselves would be a disadvantage.

Perhaps there are some people that are so secure and/or privileged that this is just never a concern of theirs. But, if Jeff Besos can be as rich as he is while some of his workers can’t get enough break time to both eat lunch and take a piss, then I am willing to accept that Hasan is using what he has to his best advantage to get ahead. Yes it’s a bit exploitative, but it’s the game we are all playing here.

Don’t hate the player hate the game.

It’s a really bummer that she got to do a piece on this guy, and this was the best angle she could come up with.

If someone is gonna bend the truth to entertain me, I will gladly choose a freaking comedian doing a bit over a journalist. For a show, there is an implicit agreement that the audience will suspend disbelief so that they might be entertained. I shouldn’t have to have the same agreement with a journalist. I’m beginning to think that journalists actually needs to put “fact based fiction writer” as their tagline so we can actually know what we are getting in to.

I don’t think any performer should owe their personal lives to the rest of us like this. The premise of the article was bull, and it sucks that Hasan has had to reveal what he is allowed to keep private.

I think media today is super untrustworthy. Most media outlets frenzy when they see blood in the water. I think average people need to wake up and not get swept into the feeding frenzy. This kind of thing is happening too often for us not to keep our eyes open. At the end of the day, they all want our money and attention, and don’t care about who they need to sacrifice to the public to get that.