Culture Blogger suggests Taylor Swift is Alt-Right, Swift sues - You can't be neutral on a moving train.

The American Civil Liberties Union is swooping in to defend a blogger who criticised Taylor Swift for her current silence on political issues, accusing her of enabling an alt-right and white supremacist fanbase around her to exist.

Writer Meghan Herning, whose piece was published on PopFront Magazine, which currently has 201 followers on Twitter, received a letter from Swift's attorneys demanding she retract the article, threatening to sue if she did not comply.

Titled "Swiftly to the alt-right: Taylor subtly gets the lower case kkk in formation", Herning's piece claims Swift's single "Look What You Made Me Do" contains "dog whistles to white supremacy in the lyrics".

Lines like "I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time", quoted by alt-right publication Breitbart on Twitter, are equated by Herning to ideas that white supremacy has gained new traction in the wake of Trump's election.

She also compares shots from the video where, dressed in leather, Swift addresses an army of followers to images of Adolf Hitler. "Taylor lords over an army of models from a podium, akin to what Hitler had in Nazis Germany," she writes. "The similarities are uncanny and unsettling."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-right-denounce-white-supremacy-a8041551.html
 
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Somsnosa said:
what if she's of irish heritage tho
or worst of all, slav
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I'm pretty sure /pol/ would've been autistic enough to check that out beforehand. Yeah looks like they did.

Taylor is descended from a number of German immigrants to the United States, in the 1800s and earlier. Some of her ancestral lines also trace back to Colonial America of the 1600s, and to English immigrants of that time period. Her other ancestry includes smaller amounts of Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Welsh, 1/16th Italian, and distant roots in France, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Belgium (with Walloon ancestors).
 
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Medicated said:
It's been a thing for a while. Everyone just ignores it. I guess someone thought it would be a chance to strongarm Taylor Swift into denouncing Trump and everyone right of Brianna Wu or coming out and then saying "Trump, you are gonna be so mad I'm gay" like Kristen Stewart did on SNL.

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Which is just a ton of bullshit. Shame on these "journalists" for trying to pressure apolitical/politically neutral celebrities into endorsing their views, and then labeling them as horrible people whenever they decline. They don't owe these people jack shit.
 
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The Nazi accusation is incredibly damaging, and if it's false, it's clearly defamatory. You're accusing someone of being the enemy of all of society and basically a criminal. If this isn't defamation per se, it's definitely defamation per quod.

At some point these left-wing fucks relentlessly screaming Nazi at everything that annoys them are going to get stung hard by a huge libel verdict.

If a false accusation of being a Nazi sticks, it can destroy a career and make someone a social pariah. This is exactly what defamation law is intended to prevent.
 
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The connection the author tries to make between Swift's lyrics and the beliefs of the alt right is some of the most autistic lyrical analysis I've ever seen:
Later in the song, there is another telling line: “I don’t like your kingdom keys. They once belonged to me. You asked me for a place to sleep. Locked me out and threw a feast (what?).” These lyrics are the most explicit in speaking to white anger and affirming white supremacy. The lyrics speak to the white people resentful of any non-white person having a position of power and privilege. Think of Barack Obama: the fears of white dispossession of power were actualized in his success, which was a huge factor in the appeal of candidate Trump. He is a patriarchal, rich white man that embodied the anger and white supremacist ideology.
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AnOminous said:
At some point these left-wing fucks relentlessly screaming Nazi at everything that annoys them are going to get stung hard by a huge libel verdict..
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what really bugs me is that these people are the ones that scream how making jokes on something "normalizes" it
but they don't see the problem with calling everything nazi and "normalizing" it
 
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ZehnBoat said:
irish = white so yes
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