You can argue all day about whether celebrities have an obligation to speak out about injustice or not but, ultimately, having so much influence and choosing not to use it in the face of a genocide your government is helping to perpetuate, and your engagement knocks from the front page, is not "neutrality". It is a deliberate choice.
Guardian: Taylor Swift posting her engagement but not about Gaza is a "deliberate choice"
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 5, 2025 8:37 PM |
I’m so sick of the fucking Palestine/Israel debate having to be obsessed over by Americans. They’re all type of genocide, fucked up shit, decades long conflicts between ethnic groups happening all over the world. But we supposed obsessed over the shit because Jewish are white. You know that’s the reason. It’s fucking sickening. What about the Congo. What about our war zones right here in Chicago or New Orleans. Maybe she is passionate about other causes.
I can’t wait until a liberal democrats says there about a quarter of the population suffering form food insecurity and some of them are teens who may not graduate from high school. That’s what the fuck I’m passionate about.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 1, 2025 9:57 PM |
Fucking christ, sometimes a spade is just a spade.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 1, 2025 9:57 PM |
Why does everyone have to take a stance on this shit? For some people, entertainment is a mental health break from all the political bullshit. I'm old enough to remember when it was a huge faux pas to give public political opinions if you are completely unqualified to do so. Let this bisexual woman enjoy her engagment.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 1, 2025 10:02 PM |
I can't even take that seriously, because there are in fact no serious ideas behind that argument.
A pop star has no obligation to comment on the Middle East political situation, of all things.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 1, 2025 10:07 PM |
It's ridiculous, and she couldn't win anyway. If she posted about that, Fox News would spend hours laughing about "the pop star who thinks she's an expert on the Middle East."
She treats her employees insanely generously and gives away millions to food banks. That's plenty.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 1, 2025 10:37 PM |
Popstars SHOULDN'T be posting about Gaza.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 1, 2025 10:54 PM |
Arwa Mahdawi is a total idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 1, 2025 10:59 PM |
This is what The Guardian always does. It’s a far Left rag. It’s why it’s been a punchline in the UK since the 80s. They try to outwoke the wokes.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 1, 2025 11:03 PM |
This is why we’re so messed up.
These people start with good intentions and a year later they’re insufferable and become that person who only talks about one thing.
Swift doesn’t owe anyone an explanation on anything. It’s actually been refreshing not to hear a popstar get political.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 1, 2025 11:09 PM |
And Swift would get a massive ration of shit if she DID post about Gaza.
She has supported it.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 1, 2025 11:29 PM |
Democrats kept screaming that Swift needed to endorse Kamala, expecting it to win the election. 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 2, 2025 12:08 AM |
Taylor Swift has enough to deal with. The wedding, honeymoon, bachelorette party, the massive prenup, and of course, Blake Lively and her This Ends With Us bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 2, 2025 12:26 AM |
Just look at all the hate she got from conservatives when she called out Trump and supported Kamala. And is still getting. Why single her out? At least she stood up against Trump when so many celebs stayed silent
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 5, 2025 7:26 PM |
This is the maximum expression of Western civilization's current decadence: Making people believe that whatever this lil' bitch thinks, speaks or does (or doesn't) it's what matters most in this world.
Fuck off.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 5, 2025 7:33 PM |
R14, her hand was twisted into doing that. She’s always been a Republican.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 5, 2025 7:40 PM |
*arm
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 5, 2025 7:40 PM |
I knew this would be an Arwa Mahdawi special just from the headline.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 5, 2025 7:43 PM |
Doesn't sound like a Republican to me. Swift sure as fuck wouldn't have endorsed Harris if she were. No arm twisting necessary.
I'm not even a big Swift fan. But I think she deserves credit for the good she does.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 5, 2025 8:03 PM |
Taylor has also never once spoken up for trans people.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 5, 2025 8:05 PM |
SHESH NEVER SHPOKEN UP FOR DORISH FROM GEORGSHIA!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 5, 2025 8:37 PM |