frankly i wanted to do a paper back in 2016 about how taylor sw*ft actively uses ⚪️ supremacy to help her career. like she’s never really told ⚪️ supremacists she doesn’t want to be their poster girl in any firm terms if we’re being honest. she is happy to collect that money from them despite any tearful claims in m*ss americana.
most of her fame frankly does come from being a fragile white woman framed against a black man (kanye). To the point that when he wrote a lyric saying he made her famous, he asked her if it was okay, she said yes, then spent months crying in the press about Kanye saying he made her famous. (As if she hadn’t explicitly given him permission to). When that phone call where she said she thought it’d be funny, came to light she switched up and said her problem was other parts of the song which were misogynistic. (Taylor really seems to only have a problem with misogyny when it is misogyny that affects her. I’m not saying she shouldn’t complain about it, but also it’s a REAL selective sensitivity to misogyny. Like we should all be women supporting taylor, and taylor will not be supporting other women. On that same call she complained that if “the feminists” knew Kanye got permission for it, they might “come for.”)
She used the aesthetics of black women and black culture in shake it off. She was criticized too for this especially since the video focuses just on the butts of black women twerking, a body part they are already fetishized for. Nicki Minaj released anaconda a few months later the videos were compared. People felt Nicki did it better, in ways that featured the whole woman’s body vs. taylor’s focus on just the butt. Nicki complained later that year that despite her video breaking records it seemed unfair she wasn’t getting a VMA nod for it. Taylor had gotten a VMA nod for Shake it Off. Despite the fact that Nicki didn’t mention Taylor OR Shake it off, Taylor made it seem like the comment was about her. Said women should uplift other women. Despite later backtracking there still seemed to be this narrative that Nicki “Went after” Taylor.
Later that same year she released a music video glorifying colonial Africa without any people of color in it. A fantasy of a colonial past while obscuring the people that were harmed by it.
Stormfront tweeted out every single line to “look what you made me do” on their twitter. She has never really said anything about the fact that nazis think of her as their ideal of white womanhood.
So all of that wrapped up in the latest dating a man who: harrassed a muslim teenager on twitter about her religion, did a nazi salute at a concert, mocked a woman of color on a podcast, and on that same podcast said he watches porn of black women being humiliated and brutalized like … it’s giving … a lot of willing complicity in white supremacy.
(via casting-curaga)
