I think I know why conservatives are freaking out over Taylor Swift supporting Democrats.
She started with good old-fashioned Country-music. A caucasian, blond, beautiful girl, who grew up Tennessee and is making white-people music.
And even after she left Country and moved to Pop-music, this scene refused to let her go. Country-music award shows still claimed her as one of their own long after she had moved on.
And I have read that were certain people on the internet (with certain opinions on things like skin-color), which revered her as some sort of symbol, not for her music, but for everything else: For being a pretty white girl making white-people music. Unsullied by the non-white outside-world.
As Taylor Swift did not make political statements, these kinds of followers never received contrary information.
And now imagine their shock when they discovered that the white, pretty girl making white-people music, who had always had the same opinion as you and who has always hated the same people as you, turns out to be nothing at all like in your imagination.
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after all those years of assuming they knew what the entertainer stood for, they get blindsided.
don't blame me.
co-opt her image:
Can't Shake It Off: How Taylor Swift Became a Nazi Idol
Nazis and members of the "alt-right" consider Taylor Swift an Aryan pop queen who is “red pilling” America into a race war through her pop hits.
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"Firstly, Taylor Swift is a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry. Athena reborn. That's the most important thing," explains Andre Anglin, the writer of the white supremacist blog the Daily Stormer. "It is also an established fact that Taylor Swift is secretly a Nazi and is simply waiting for the time when Donald Trump makes it safe for her to come out and announce her Aryan agenda to the world. Probably, she will be betrothed to Trump's son, and they will be crowned American royalty." (Swift is notoriously private about her political leanings, although, after Obama was elected, she told Rolling Stone, "I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive. I'm so glad this was my first election."
It's unclear when the white supremacists started writing blog posts about their Taylor Swift fandom. Anglin believes Swift Nazi memes may have existed since her "Teardrops on My Guitar" days. "Some believe it was meme magic that made her famous—though no one can be certain," he says. "We are certain that as soon as Nazis saw her, they were magnetically drawn to her sculpted Aryan form and angelic demeanor."
Breitbart columnist Milo Yiannopoulos believes the memes may have originated with a Pinterest user named @poopcutie, which was helmed by a teenage girl named Emily Pattinson. In 2013, she started pining memes attributing Adolf Hitler quotes to Swift to spoof memes that falsely attributed inspiring quotes to Marilyn Monroe. Pattinson emblazoned an image of Swift in a ball gown walking past trees with the Hitler quote: "As in everything, NATURE is the best instruction." BuzzFeed aggregated her posts without asking Pattinson for comment, and then Pattinson went viral. "Everyone wants to go viral," she says. She soon learned that short-lived Internet fame isn't what it's cracked up to be, when Swift's lawyer, J Douglas Baldridge, sent Pinterest a threatening letter, which Pattinson provided to Broadly. Part of the letter read as follows:
The association of Ms. Swift with Adolf Hitler undisputedly is 'harmful,' 'abusive,' 'ethnically offensive,' 'humiliating to other people,' 'libelous,' and no doubt 'otherwise objectionable.' It is of no import that Ms. Swift may be a public figure or that Pinterest conveniently now argues that the Offending Material is mere satire or parody. Public figures have rights. And, there are certain historical figures, such as Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson and the like, who are universally identified in the case law and popular culture as lightning rods for emotional and negative reaction.
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ae5x8a/cant-shake-it-off-how-taylor-swift-became-a-nazi-idol
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Here's an example of them attempting to attribute Hitler quotes to her. (As if she'd be babbling about the League of Nations 80 years after its dissolution.) 😂
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Not too far from "Chinese food for white people," which is what my ex-wife, who is Chinese, calls P F CHANG'S.
