Picking the deadliest weapon from her quiver of controversial opinions, a California professor puzzled if being a Taylor Swift fan may add to racism.
CORRECTION / US singer Taylor Swift performs on stage throughout a live performance as a part of her Eras World Tour in Sydney on February 23, 2024. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) / (AFP)
Nearly two weeks in the past, Melina Abdullah, the Pan-African Studies professor at Cal State University Los Angeles, tweeted: “Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?” Her X (previously Twitter) profile introduces her as “#BlackLivesMatter organiser, Pan-Africanist, Hip Hop scholar, daughter of God, womanist, truth-teller, mama.”
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California professor’s tweet about Taylor Swift followers
On being probed by a non-Swiftie as to why her ideas ran alongside these notes, she asserted, “I said FEEL, not think. Kind of like that feeling I get when there are too many American flags.”
The dialogue did not finish there. In a follow-up tweet on X, she wrote: “ Why do I feel like this was some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!!”, addressing the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win.
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As her tweets about Taylor Swift caught traction on social media, she continued posting concerning the problem. In 2017, The College Fix reported one other considered one of her controversial feedback on the Cal State Fullerton convention on intersectionality and discrimination. The Black Lives Matter organiser referred to present-day cops as “slave catchers” of the previous.
Responding to the eye she’d gained from the Taylor Swift-Super Bowl posts, she tweeted how “Virtually everything is racist” and that she’s not offended by people attacking her on social media.
With every part that is occurred and all of the interactions she’s gained this previous week, Abdullah once more took to her X profile to make clear the form of hateful responses which have come her means. Labelling these folks as “white-delusionists”, the professor decided to share one of the voice messages she’d received.
In the subsequent post, she addressed a man named Ethan George from Texas who’d supposedly sent her a sternly vehement response about her previous Taylor Swift tweet.
After introducing himself, his voice note continues: “You’re a joke. You’re disgusting … You’re what’s wrong with this country. You’re the reason we’re headed in such a negative direction. How dare you?….” The remaining major section of the audio message begins battering her with severe expletives.
Cornering George’s message, she left another note on her page: “Y’all are full-fledged violent white-delusionists.”
Fox News even tracked her controversial messages on X from 2022, wherein she posted about Juneteenth celebrations not being for white people. “Attention white people… Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout….,” she wrote in her June 2022 submit.
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