Since Taylor Swift premiered her "Wildest Dreams" video on Sunday, critics have accused her of romanticizing colonialism. The video has Taylor and Scott Eastwood playing an on-screen couple, who star in a 1950s period film set in Africa, as shown by the wildlife and dusty landscapes, though without a single black person in focus. (Key inspiration included films like The English Patient.) "Wildest Dreams" director Joseph Kahn issued a statement earlier this week. He said that while the cast and crew is diverse (Joseph is Korean-American, the video's producer and editor are black, and actually, black actors were featured), they all "collectively decided it would be historically inaccurate to load the crew with more black actors as the video would have been accused of rewriting history."

Joseph fired back again at criticism yesterday. This time he took to Twitter. "SJW [social justice workers] attacking me for not having minorities in my work when I have 25 years of most diverse multicultural work of possibly anyone #facepalm." He then linked to a Grantland article that looked back at his directing career, from helming videos for Geto Boys and Britney Spears to reimagining the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in that "deboot" that Saban tried to have taken down. "Sad thing is when people make false accusations of racism and the public rejects it, it makes real racism harder to fight," he says. See his tweets below.