Everyone on the internet has an opinion about Taylor Swift these days, but some are so bizarre you have to read them twice. Here’s one: Taylor Swift has so much white privilege that the only person who can combat her is another white person: Kim Kardashian.
Yes, you (re-)read that correctly.
In perhaps one of the most convoluted and absurd articles articles published on the internet, The Root writer Clarkisha Kent delves into the intricate details of Taylor Swift’s white privilege and obsession with bashing Kanye West, particularly in Swift’s new single “Look What You Made Me Do.”
Kent’s hang up? Swift should be bashing Kim Kardashian, instead of Kim K’s hubby, Kanye. After all, it was Kardashian who delivered a hit to Swift “that was so intense and scorching, it sent her into a long-standing hiatus that absolutely no one gave a f*ck about other than her then-boyfriend Tom Hiddleston (now ex-boyfriend). Kim was the one who embraced the snake emojis and made it so that she would profit off the Great Exposing of Taylor Swift for years to come.”
Kent believes the reason Swift isn’t going after Kim K has everything to do with race.
“[T]he only other person who is able to subvert and defeat a white woman (and her white privilege and white tears) is another fellow white woman,” she explains. Therefore, Swift is feuding with her white enemy’s black husband instead.
Tay Tay won’t dare go after Kardashian because “she can’t out-white-woman another white woman whose privilege works just as well as hers and carries a lifetime guarantee.”
Kent, whose twitter feed is a conundrum of the evils of Donald Trump and the glories of socialism, makes sure that readers understand that Kardashian is a “ethnic white woman.”
Kent goes on to call Kanye “low-hanging fruit” and says that “everyone already kinda hates [him].” Seemingly implying that Swift is attacking Kanye West because he’s nothing more a poor black man — a black man that happens to be drowning in millions of dollars and constantly disrespects women in his music.
In the same piece, Kent also proceeded to lambast “pussy-hat-wearing, Women’s March-ing and ‘nonracist’ white women” because they aren’t radical enough for her tastes, saying the country needs more people like Colleen Dagg who beat up a woman she claims went on a racist rant. (The rant doesn’t appear in the video.)
No longer can pop stars feud without racial overtones. No longer can progressive women march peacefully without criticism from those further left. If you don’t see privilege and oppression everywhere, and if you don’t take violent action to change it, you’re a part of the problem, according to The Root writer Clarkisha Kent.
