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

 

[CWCchange]

Well that took long enough. The Daily Stormer was appropriating Taylor Swift as an alt-right symbol for quite a while now.

 

[Somsnosa]

So she's a nazi because she didn't go all "I'm with her" like katy perry and miley cyrus?
What a world.

 

[RG 448]

She also breathes air. Hitler breathed air. Is that a coincidence?

 

[KM 749]

The alt-right at this point is the hot potato that scalds everyone's hands while inciting animosity between people and groups for passing it to one another.

 

[Medicated]

Well that took long enough. The Daily Stormer was appropriating Taylor Swift as an alt-right symbol for quite a while now.

Well I spose she does have the perfect look for a Third Reich poster model. But it's funny in the same way because the rumor is she's still deep in the closet. If she came out publicly, I'm sure the media would try to push her as some leftist lesbian spokeswoman icon. And I think some people don't want to be pushed as the "LGBT example" to everyone. Or have their sexuality made out to be a political statement.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

there could be alt-righters in your cupboards

 

[melty]

 

[Medicated]

 

[CWCchange]

Well I spose she does have the perfect look for a Third Reich poster model. But it's funny in the same way because the rumor is she's still deep in the closet. If she came out publicly, I'm sure the media would try to push her as some leftist lesbian spokeswoman icon. And I think some people don't want to be pushed as the "LGBT example" to everyone. Or have their sexuality made out to be a political statement.

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Meh, she's too fucking tall. The fact she started as a country music singer and is generally reserved about her political views is basically it.

 

[ComeoutandJULAY]

What, so in the age of Drumpf celebrities have to make platitudinous political statements to avoid being ostracized by their peers?

Taylor Swift has always been apolitical. It's how she's run her career from the very beginning—like a business. All she gives a shit about doing is making as much money as possible. For her it doesn't matter if it comes from alt-right speds or from SJWs who shriek about her "white feminism" but will buy her records anyway; as long as they continue to put money in her pocket, she'll be satisfied. That's just how she and other artists like her operate.

 

[Ido]

lol take notes Russell Greer. THIS is how you get their attention.

 

[Trash Eater]

"Dog whistles to white supremacy" is the left's equivalent to TURNING THE FRICKIN' FROGS GAY.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Given the current popular climate of ravenously ruining lives and businesses via social media witch-hunts because someone doesn't agree with your every belief, I'd guess she may have a solid basis to claim slander/libel. What if her next record's sales were to tank because this asshole successfully spread a hashtag calling her a nazi?

Any legal opinion on that one @AnOminous ?

 

[Dorsia.Reservation]

Too bad the rest of celebrities and Hollywood don't act like Taylor Swift.

 

[oldTireWater]

Well, she did curbstomp that one nigger.

 

[MrLobe]

Well, she did curbstomp that one nigger.

Ooo, look what you made me do.

 

[heathercho]

"Meghan Herning
Law Clerk

Meghan Herning is a law student at Golden Gate University. Before law, her career was in teaching history and Spanish. She is interested in immigration law and policy. Meghan helps SJC as a New Americans Benefits Coordinator, helping connect asylees with crucial public benefits."

She's part of something called Social Justice Collective. Bitch is fucking batshit insane.

 

[Slowpoke Sonic]

so that means taylor swift is the new pepe?

 

[Medicated]

so that means taylor swift is the new pepe?

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.