Is Taylor Swift a White Supremacist Nazi Sympathizer?

Maybe it’s just me, but if people had any question as to whether or not I supported white supremacists and Nazis, I would clear that up pretty quickly.  I wouldn’t wait to find out how much it might cost me in album, ticket and merchandise sales either. I would immediately and forcefully make my condemnation of these hate groups known to everyone. I wouldn’t say “well, my new video is premiering on the MTV Video Awards and new album is dropping at the same time, so I’ll just wait and see if this all blows over.” 

It just so happens that there IS a huge pop star who these vile racist groups do consider their “Aryan Goddess.” We are, of course, talking about Taylor Swift. Taylor is famously “non-political” which is fine most of the time, I guess. But, we’re not living in normal times and this isn’t a normal political issues. We’re talking about hate groups who have called for the ethnic cleansing of all non-white Christians from America. So, why won’t Taylor Swift condemn them? Does she support them? 

Last week the VMA’s were full of musical artists taking a stand against these white supremacist Nazi groups. Artist after artist spoke out eloquently and strongly in favor of tolerance and love. Everyone except Taylor Swift, that is. Instead, Swift debuted her latest “I’m a victim of the big, scary black guy” song complete with the mocking of Kim Kardashian being assaulted and robbed while looking strangely like Melania Trump. Should we just take that video as her position on hate and tolerance? 

Even if Taylor Swift isn’t a white supremacist Nazi sympathizer, why would she refuse to publicly condemn them? Would the small financial hit she would take after they dropped her and stopped buying her music and posters really hurt Taylor that much? Is she so craven that she doesn’t consider standing up for what’s right to be more important than her place as the “Queen of Pop?” (Hint: Yes, she is.)

Yeah, I know. You’re going to point out that I have always disliked Taylor Swift and considered her a fraud and a horrible human being. Well, that’s true and you know what? I think I’ve been proven right over and over again. About ninety percent of Taylor Swift’s fan base is teenagers. Teenagers and young people are the most accepting and tolerant generation of Americans. There is no way they would turn on her if she publicly condemned hatred, racism and bigotry. The only people who would get mad are the Alt-Right and Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters. Her continued silence can only make one think that Taylor Swift fully supports those deplorable, racist white supremacist Nazi bastards.  

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Rob Portman and Gay Marriage: A Cute Couple

Hola all you tolerant and enlightened folks! One of the big news items over the weekend that might have gotten lost in the St. Patrick’s Day revelry was Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman announced that he not only has a gay son, but is now in favor of gay marriage. It seems as though Sen. Portman now believes that HIS SON is entitled to the same happiness as all those straight people out there. Well, how about that!

It’s been interesting to watch the liberals’ reaction to this. The initial knee-jerk reaction was to complain that Portman has been virulently anti-gay marriage ONLY because he was being a good political soldier and advancing the republican agenda. An agenda, by the way, that is only in place to stir up the base and pander to the religious right because the worst kept secret in Washington is that the vast majority of republicans don’t give a crap about gay marriage and even actually privately support it and attend wedding ceremonies of people on their staff.

Yeah? And? I hate to break this to some of you but up until a couple of years ago the democrats did the same damn thing. Many congressmen and women and senators, especially those who represent southern states, took anti-gay positions simply because they thought it would help them in elections to do so. SHOCKINGIKNOWRIGHT!

Of course, there is also a large group of liberals who have a different take on this. Their “complaint” is that Portman only changed his position on gay marriage when his son came out to him. He never would have changed nor evolved on this had he not had a gay son. He only supports equal rights now because it affects someone he’s close to.

Yeah? And? SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO? What’s your point? I hate to break THIS to you but that’s EXACTLY how Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and most of the democrats evolved on this issue. Maybe it didn’t happen overnight with them by a family member coming out to them, but it did happen over time as they became more aware of the gay marriage issue and actually started to be around more and more gay people.

Aannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd …. That exactly how you, you, you over there with your hands in your pockets looking at the sky and whistling and … uh … I evolved on this same issue.

Oh sure, we’re all born innocent and have to learn to hate from our parents, friends, teachers and preachers. Then when we go out into the  real world on our own we start finding out that a lot of what we were taught about blacks, Mexicans, Jews, gays, cablinasians and  Burkinabés aren’t nearly as bad as we were led to believe they are. I know that liberals love to pretend that they remained innocent and pure their whole lives and never found themselves on the wrong side of any civil rights issues. Liberals also want us to believe that they never harbored any prejudiced thoughts of any kind at all! That’s bullshit.

For most of us there have been a lot of “these folks aren’t that bad at all” revelations after we found ourselves interacting with people from other cultures for the first time as adults. I was one of those people. I come from a very small community and while I was lucky to have parents who didn’t preach intolerance, I didn’t have any significant interaction with blacks, Hispanics, Asians etc etc until college.

On gays I took the usual path. While I didn’t really have prejudices against gays* (beyond the “I don’t know anything about homosexuality and they seem kinda icky prejudices”) I started out as a “no gay marriage” guy and then became “okay maybe gay civil unions” and then I finally evolved all the way to not just “yes” on gay marriage but to the belief that gay rights is a civil rights issue. That evolution was the result of actually being around gays, getting to know them and realizing that I was wrong on the gay rights and gay marriage issues. Just like Senator Portman, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and most everyone else.

It’s important to not worry WHAT brought people to finally doing the right thing and supporting gay marriage. The only thing matters is that they finally got here and bashing them when they do get here will only result in others who might be considering coming out in favor of gay marriage to decide against it.

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*Since I was not a regular church goer I was not taught to hate gays. However, when I was growing up homosexuality was a subject that just was NOT discussed anywhere by anyone.