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Guardian: Taylor Swift posting her engagement but not about Gaza is a "deliberate choice"

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.

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by Anonymousreply 13September 2, 2025 12:26 AM

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 Anonymousreply 1September 1, 2025 9:57 PM

Fucking christ, sometimes a spade is just a spade.

by Anonymousreply 2September 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 Anonymousreply 3September 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 Anonymousreply 4September 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 Anonymousreply 5September 1, 2025 10:37 PM

Popstars SHOULDN'T be posting about Gaza.

by Anonymousreply 6September 1, 2025 10:54 PM

Arwa Mahdawi is a total idiot.

by Anonymousreply 7September 1, 2025 10:59 PM

Where is Ja?

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by Anonymousreply 8September 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 Anonymousreply 9September 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 Anonymousreply 10September 1, 2025 11:09 PM

And Swift would get a massive ration of shit if she DID post about Gaza.

She has supported it.

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by Anonymousreply 11September 1, 2025 11:29 PM

Democrats kept screaming that Swift needed to endorse Kamala, expecting it to win the election. 🙄

by Anonymousreply 12September 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 Anonymousreply 13September 2, 2025 12:26 AM
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