And just like that, we now know why Sarah Jessica Parker isn’t all up in your timeline talking about politics.
Sarah recently appeared on The Best People podcast, and during the chat the And Just Like That… actor got into it about why she doesn’t use social media to talk about political issues. Her explanation was…interesting.
“I often don’t talk on social media because I don’t think it’s a place that’s deserving of any real complicated conversation,” she explained. “I’m not interested in quick little snippets when it’s dealing with conflict or even elections sometimes.”
Now, those with a particularly sharp sense of memory will probably point out that what Sarah is saying isn’t explicitly true. She did, after all, endorse the Harris-Walz campaign on Instagram ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. But before you get your “Gotcha!”s in, she’s got an explanation for that.
“I really was so thoughtful about how I wanted to talk about the election because I think it turns into a distraction from a campaign,” she said. “It turns into fodder. It’s misunderstood. You have no control over it.”
Sarah then went on to say that there are “so many ways to work toward a more civil society” — which, fair enough — and that US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt “was elected without social media” back in 1932. Wait, what?!?
“Many things happened, right and left, Republicans and Democrats for many, many, many, many years — many generations were elected without someone having to say something on Instagram,” she elaborated.
Following that somewhat tortured comparison, SJP claimed that people have urged her to “be vocal” when it comes to her political stances — but that, for her, it’s about finding a way to be “comfortable being vocal.”
“I’m not going to talk about stuff that I don’t feel educated on,” she explained. “I’m not going to jump in on really complex areas that I feel are deserving of far more thought, consideration, nuance — which I know no one’s interested in. And I just feel like I want to be helpful. I don’t want to hurt something that matters to me.”
I mean, look, I’m not going to argue against the careful application of nuance…let’s just leave the 1930s out of it, please. You can listen to the entire chat here.
