This is the Trumpian tactic brought to pop culture: Inflammatory language aimed at a target and done with the knowledge that a base of fans will be provoked to harass and unnerve the target. Collateral damage? Who cares, it’s about the power to intimidate.
Now you could say Swift is entitled to take offence and deem that one line “sexist.” She has agency, and it’s her call. Fair enough.allowed no space for discourse. The base, alerted to their leader’s umbrage, went off unchecked, to exact vengeance. It was of no matter thatis packed with pop-culture references including cutting remarks by teenagers about Lana Del Rey and.
The fallout was shocking. The online abuse directed at 24-year-old Antonia Gentry, who plays Ginny and uttered the now-infamous line, was ugly and much of it was racist. Gentry is biracial and her character’s problem with fitting in as Black or white is part of the show’s storyline. Anyone watching this ugliness unfold was watching a mirror image of the ripple effects of the Donald Trump strategy – the leader takes umbrage, followed by bluster, followed by fans using discriminatory language, hate and racism on his behalf, but at a distance from the leader who can claim innocence about the full impact of what is unleashed.
We all knew that the wider consequences of the Trump era and his behaviour would be huge. It has already become a cancer on civil discourse in the United States in the political arena, but now we see it writ large in the popular culture. A music superstar unthinkingly uses the bullying gambit – 88.5 million followers is one hell of an army – in a move that pre-Trump would have been utterly antithetical to the norms of discourse, even among pop stars.
Fair that it was written by a man! You just had to decide that her reaction was strong, she should’ve kept quiet, taken a joke that ppl like u perpetuate. Nothing happened like “March to the Capitol” as u suggest. Do better and don’t ask women to gulp in whatever bullcrap u throw
I thought she was just gonna shake shake shake shake it off when the players gonna play play play play and the haters gonna hate hate hate hate ... at least that was the mantra two decades ago. LOL
Ah yes, we all know that Trump invented not liking a joke somebody made and that is what plunged the country into chaos
Hey G&M, are you still losing subscribers?
WTF?
ah yes this sure is the worst part of american culture yes yes of course
Really? THIS is the worst of American culture..?
It's bad. It's really bad. But the worst of American culture? I don't think so. That statement is the worst of journalistic hyperbole.
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