Taylor Swift posted the above Instagram on Friday, the day before the March for Our Lives. Taylor has been criticized in the past for refusing to be “political,” even when the politics of a given situation are pretty simple. For example, she was criticized for not saying anything about the Women’s March until hours after most of the marches were done. She was criticized for never saying or suggesting who she supported in the 2016 election. She was criticized for using the banner of “feminism” for personal profit but never having anything to say about actual feminist issues. She was criticized for not saying enough (or anything at all) publicly about the neo-Nazi community’s embrace of her image as an “Aryan princess.”
As you can read on that Instagram, Taylor is now coming out with a full-throated support of an actual POLITICAL movement. If you come out and say that you support the March For Our Lives and that children shouldn’t be murdered by gun violence, then suddenly it’s a hot-topic political issue in 2018. To be fair, I know it’s more complicated than that, and the protesters made it clear that there will be political ramifications for the mostly-Republican leaders who refuse to make gun control a priority. And if you spend any time online on Saturday, you probably saw some of the tweets and social media posts from the Deplorables, gun nuts and Russian bots, all of whom were especially unhinged and critical of the protesters.
Well now that Taylor Swift has DARED to express a political opinion, the arch-conservatives – many of whom felt like Taylor was “one of them” – are turning on her. Red State ran a piece about how “disappointing” it is that Taylor is so stupid and ignorant about the hidden liberalism of the march. Here’s an excerpt of the Deplorable Denouement:
Even if Swift is ignorant to the groups, and true intent behind it, she’s highly likely not ignorant of how heated this debate has become. And therein lies the horrible part about her public support for the March for Our Lives. Swift has finally forced her fans to take a side with or against her on an issue.
…Hopefully Swift, whom I thought knew this already, will keep her politics away from her entertainment. Gun control will never come up at her concerts, and hopefully not her interviews. I doubt the latter will be possible, but perhaps she’ll take a wiser middle ground with it.
If she doesn’t, it may not play out well for her audience. In turn, it may not play out well for her.
If we’re judging Taylor Swift by her enemies, I think it says something good about her development as a person that she’s pissing off these kinds of whiny butthurt Deplorables. Poor gun-loving a–holes, they thought Taylor Swift was their perfect Aryan Republican princess. But now she’s out here donating money to gun control causes and saying – GASP! – that people should be able to live their lives without being gunned down by an armed-to-the-teeth douchebag.
Taylor Swift lyric inspired posters at #MarchForOurLives let’s make changes happen!
— TT4Taylor (@TT4Taylor) March 25, 2018
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