re: #32 Florida Panhandler

At this point in time Taylor Swift is much much bigger worldwide than her first fan base of pre-teen and high school female white Country Music fans.

Since her pivot towards Pop she has greatly widened her fan base to worldwide dominance and now $$ billons in sales. She can at this point tell these racist hicks to basically go fuck themselves and grow her worldwide fan base even more.

I’m not really sure how to react.

My point is that we’re beset by a form of reaction that views existing outside their control as injury requiring self-defense.

Taylor Swift is a billionaire, she’ll be fine. But if you’ve been listening to the actual people talking about this…the teenage girls who are her fans might not be, because they’re also being positioned as a kind of non-person political target. And more generally, “these are people who spend all their time imagining that nothing is random and celebrate death and suffering” is a pretty notable thing in and of itself, because it contextualizes shit like…all the actual people dying as byblows of American institutions that have assumed reactionary policies.