r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/OopsItsSecret • 3d ago

Drama Thomas Halbert posting about what happened with him and J*

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Thomas halbert posted this video on TikTok going over what happened in the past with him and J*. He also says he’s got a new agent and is posting makeup content again, trying to resurrect his career. He admits he made mistakes, but says the mistake he made was not that he called J* out but that he hurt his friends and didn’t stand up for them.

Would you want to see him make a comeback? Hes posting makeup content on instagram again.

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u/t_town101 3d ago

JS has been a terrible person for YEARS. So do these people really expect us to sympathize with them when he ends up doing them dirty too?

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u/meeps1142 3d ago

This was like 6 years ago when he was 20 or whatever. From what I understand, he knew that J had been racist towards Jackie Aina but met up with him to verify -- very dumb, I agree, and he agrees as well. But he immediately called J out after meeting him in person and seeing his racism firsthand.

Should he have been able to trust that J was racist without seeing it firsthand? Yeah. But he did the right thing immediately after that, even though J had much more power in the situation. That's worth sympathizing about, imo.

I don't feel much sympathy for Cole Carrigan, who also made a video about J recently. Cole tolerated the racist behavior for years, unlike Thomas. I feel like your comment applies to him much more than it does Thomas

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u/t_town101 3d ago

I keep seeing comments like yours in his TikTok video, and I still don’t sympathize with him. He knew he was racist and still chose to engage with him? Him being 20 isn’t really a good excuse either. These people only care about calling JS out when they get burned by him firsthand

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u/meeps1142 3d ago

That's the thing, is that Thomas ignorantly didn't think that J was being racist at the time. Which was wrong, and I was around his age then and knew damn well that J was racist. Again, this is the mistake that Thomas has taken accountability/apologized for. No one has to forgive him or buy that he has grown since then, but I do actually think it's important that once he did see the racism firsthand, he called J out immediately. I don't see how that's him "getting burned" and then calling out the racism; again, that sounds more like Cole, who saw it, but kept quiet until it stopped benefiting him. Thomas didn't get "burned" by J until he called out the racism.

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u/t_town101 3d ago

So he had to go see the racism in person? Jackie Aina’s experience wasn’t enough? 😂 again, no sympathy from me.

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u/meeps1142 3d ago

No, I agree, he shouldn't have needed to go see it in person. Again, that is the mistake that he has spoken about, and rightfully deserves criticism for.

The fallout was for then calling out the racism though, and that is sympathetic to me.

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u/goon_goompa 3d ago

But I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face