#gazan journalists have been begging ppl to TALK abt this genocide... to call for a ceasefire... they're saying that all this international

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just saw a tiktok posted on instagram saying "if taylor swift spoke up about palestine, the west would fall" and actually you know what? it would. it would fucking crumble lol. social media would crash. and i'm not saying we should rely on celebrities to speak up on ANYTHING. i gave up that kinda thinking a long time ago and decided that pop stars are meant to entertain and that's that... and i'm fine with that. but... taylor did ask ppl to register to vote and didn't hundreds of thousands of ppl actually listen to her? and registered? didn't it make an impact? i'm still not saying that ppl like taylor or beyonce or selena gomez should speak up... maybe it makes an impact... or maybe it doesn't. but imagine if they did. selena said that one instagram post wasn't gonna change anything... but i mean she didn't even fucking try lmao. girlie's got half a billion followers for what?? what are these ppl doing with their money? their influence? imagine if taylor said that she wouldn't release rep tv until there was a ceasefire. imagine a world where that happened. and i wouldn't even be talking abt any of this if taylor hadn't actually tried to brand herself as someone who cared abt social issues a couple years ago. and i know many ppl feel the same way. obviously whether or not these billionaires are going to speak up or not... that's not really going to affect what WE can do for palestine... but i do think we need to reevaluate how much of our time and resources we put toward these entertainers moving forward.