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A self-proclaimed white, “extremely academically educated,” lesbian and bisexual author slammed Taylor Swift as racist, “harmful” and “cis-heteronormative” for singing about desirous to have infants along with her future husband — leaving the web livid.
Within the on-line essay “Sure, Taylor Swift is racist—simply not the sort you suppose she is,” the “politicized relationship coach” Melissa Fabello compares a music on the pop queen’s new album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” to a “pro-eugenics” anthem and declares that each one 12 songs are a “magnum opus of white supremacy.”
“Is Taylor Swift racist?” Fabello asks. “Sure.”
“What makes Taylor Swift harmful isn’t that she writes lyrics that would function the background music to a pro-eugenics Sydney Sweeney advert. It’s that she lacks the self-awareness to see how these two issues could possibly be related,” Fabello writes.
Fabello, who describes herself as “white, skinny, center class, queer, cisgender girl who lives with nervousness” in her web site bio, bashes Swift’s new music “Wi$h Li$t” for saying that she merely desires to have kids along with her soccer star fiancé, Travis Kelce.
She claims that Swift’s lyrics — “I simply need you / Have a pair youngsters / Bought the entire block trying such as you” — are “pushing the thought of passing on one’s [white] genes.”
“Folks had been fast to level out that, particularly given the cultural local weather, expressing a fantasy during which two Aryan-esque wealthy individuals populate a neighborhood with blonde-haired, blue-eyed infants is a bit … insensitive, at greatest,” Fabello wrote.
“Pushing the thought of passing on one’s genes, within the context of whiteness, has historical past to it – historical past that the pop star who is usually lauded for her genius (‘her mind!’) must be willfully unaware of for this to not happen to,” she mused within the essay, which quotes a letter Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in 1963 from Birmingham Jail.
Fabello — whose previous “scorching takes” embody “The Nuclear Household is a Cult” and “The Manner You’re Speaking About Intercourse May Be Homophobic” — additionally says Swift’s lyrical metaphors “overlap with anti-Blackness.”
“Her liberal attachment to whiteness is definitely scarier than if she was MAGA,” the subhead of the article says.
Fabello is a self-proclaimed “relationship coach” who provides “social justice and leisure wellness training in step with my abolitionist politics” and has a PhD in human sexuality research, in keeping with her Instagram web page.
She asserts, as if she’s within the singer’s head, within the essay that Swift “doesn’t take into consideration race in any respect” earlier than instantly contradicting herself: “and when she does, she sees white supremacy as a far-right challenge.”
“Taylor Swift is a white girl whose success depends on cultural narratives of the fragility and purity of white feminity, whereas training zero interrogation into her personal whiteness,” Fabello writes.
Swifties had been fast to criticize her “take” on Swift — who’s famously left-leaning herself and endorsed Kamala Harris for president final yr — calling it illogical, absurd and attention-seeking.
“Translation: ‘Taylor Swift is racist as a result of I would like her to be for this text,’” one critic wrote on X.
“To not be all ‘because of this Trump received,’ nevertheless it’s loopy that essentially the most well-known particular person on the planet is outspokenly liberal and frequently endorses democrats and that is how leftists deal with her. A motion hooked on self destruction,” one other person wrote.
A 3rd person sarcastically bashed, “However the writer has a PhD in her byline! How may she be incorrect?”
“I don’t suppose [Swift] is a racist in any respect and the idea that I do is a telling flaw within the author’s complete worldview,” one other wrote.
Fabello didn’t return The Submit’s request for an interview Thursday.
