Just for clarification: are you saying that you’ve read these things in quotes from Johnson, Kennedy and the others? Or that you’ve read that other people have said Kennedy, Johnson and the others are doing this?
I’ve seen plenty of the latter, in this forum and elsewhere, but I haven’t seen any of the former. In fact, I don’t really think that any of those people (Kennedy, Johnson, Abrams, etc) have really addressed the people with legitimate grievances about the last few films at all. That I think is its own issue: it seems like they’re wasting all their time responding to the people with “negative” reasons for disliking the films (sexist, racist, whatever), when in all likelihood those are the fans who are least likely to want to hear what they have to say.
In essence, I don’t think it’s that people with legitimate criticisms are being “lumped in” with the toxic people, I think they’ve just been left out of the conversation entirely. Which, again, isn’t helpful and isn’t how you go about making positive changes.
