The flood of nepo baby celebrity critiques has drowned out crucial discussions of nepotism outside of Hollywood, along with a broader conversation on systemic advantages resulting from white privilege and wealth disparity.

It isn’t that Styles is wrong for expressing himself in a non-normative way — in fact it’s good, as it means it’s working — but that the representation is still disproportionate.

We at Washington University might say that we have been “deeply affected by an incident that took place last week.” And that now, learning from this incident, we can “continue to find opportunities to celebrate our differences.” Let me say that at Washington University, what happened was not “incident” or discrete or simple. There was no one student lynched.