#there is one thread that i left out because it'd lind of a stretch but i still wanna mention it

[meinyourbones]

I guess you can probably bully Taylor Swift into speaking out on Palestine, it seems to have worked with the jet use, although that did bookend with threatening to sue a college student so idk how noble she would realistically be.

I also wonder if she's even pro-Palestine. The left isn't exactly united on this issue, and she needs to be liked so bad, it would make sense if she was pro-Israel and -- knowing that her fanbase skews younger and therefore pro-Palestine -- didn't want to talk about Israel's war and risk alienating any fans. Anyway, that's neither here nor there; the point is that people on the left want her to speak up about Palestine (and the right seems to think she's in cahoots with Biden, idk wtf they're on about over there).

It's easier for her to take action/speak on something that affects her (sexual harassment, artists' rights) or something that is definitely popular with her fanbase (the LGBTs). If she is pro-Palestine, there could be any number of reasons why she doesn't want to talk about it. Security concerns is one. Not having a fully-formed, well-educated opinion is another. There's the reason that she doesn't care/want to be that voice, which antis imply and I find hard to believe (though her apparent lack of public support to less popular Spotify artists does make this more likely in my mind). The major one, I suspect, is that it's so divisive and the last thing she wants is to be more divisive. Any more (and louder) negative attention while she's still in the middle of this tour brings with it certain potential issues. Do I wish that she was just 100%, definitely on our side and decided to direct some parts of her machine toward this? Absolutely. But are her antis gonna buy her next album if she does, or will she lose sales? Is she gonna be more or less safe or generally liked? Are people going to call her antisemitic? Are the Nazis going to embrace her again? I can see her in a meeting having these conversations, or at least thinking about things like this.

I'm still on the boat that I don't need my celebrities to be political advocates, but I also understand that it is different with Taylor Swift and it is different with genocide at this magnitude. Honestly, I hope the "bullying" works but I doubt it will. Still I do not understand getting mad at her for going to a club to celebrate the superb owl. Some of y'all really need to understand that unless someone is a full-time political activist, and actually I'm sure this is true for full-time activists as well, they absolutely have to do something other than be miserable about injustice at some point in their lives ever. I do understand if, like, you hate her as a person because she appears to you to be a business woman first and a human woman second. She'd kind of been doing this since she was 12 or something.