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    It’s celebrity news regarding a known white supremacist, her fanbase is notoriously disgusting and racist and often attacks people of color.

    This community doesn’t need that kind of garbage, there’s plenty of it on reddit

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      I don’t follow Swift or her die-hard fans, but this white supremacist" bit is news to me. Is this a real documented fact, or the usual overblown internet reaction to an assumption based on an extrapolation from a decade-old retweet?

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          From a quick search, it appears that a bunch of white supremacists revere her as something like a goddess, and the feeling is absolutely not mutual - in 2019, she unambiguously and firmly denounced white supremacy and alt-right stuff in general in a Rolling Stone interview.

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        Taylor Swift speaks out against that kind of shit in recent years and is about to tour with Paramore who are adamantly anti-white-supremacy and the like, so… Just your average internet idiot.

        Report as trolling and/or misinformation and move on.

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      So you’re saying it’s not news to you that a rock concert could cause an earthquake? Because it’s sure as hell news to me. Does it matter who was playing at the concert?

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      known white supremacist

      Woah, really? I’m hearing about this for the first time, upon googling it she says she disavows the alt right and finds white supremacy repulsive. Do you have a source?

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        He doesn’t. White supremacists clinging to celebrities they desperately want to believe support their views only to be slapped down in disgust is a tale as old as time.

        I seen to remember the documentary about her covering the decision to publicly voice her political beliefs for the first time. There’s this one scene where she’s in a room full of white men telling her not to do it because it would damage her brand and her mom being the only person in the room to support it.

        She went against all her business advisors and did it anyway, which should tell you enough about where she stands.

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      The kind of garbage this community doesn’t need are your blatant lies.

      What nonsense. If Lemmy is gonna be full of shit like this, maybe it’s not for me.

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      Yeah I don’t follow or give a shit about Taylor Swift. But I am interested in hell if her fans create seismic activity