The alt-right saw Taylor Swift as an 'Aryan goddess.' She shook them off as 'repulsive' [View all]

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... or, How I Learned to Love My Daughter's Idol.

I'm not one of those who begins a Taylor Swift conversation with 'I don't like her music, but...." The Fact is, I LOVE her music. I've always been that burly hetero white guy who rebelled against the unspoken rule that I had to only like Southern Rock or Heavy Metal or Classic Rock. Sure, I do like the genres. I'm NOT confined or defined by them. I like pop. Always have. Decade after decade. Except for the first ten years of my daughter's life when things got busy. She introduced me to Taylor. It's been a love affair ever since.

I recall having a somewhat heated discussion about Ms. Swift with someone on some left-leaning discussion forum years ago. It might have been DU. Honestly, I've been in many heated conversations with many people on many forums. This discussion particularly involved my opponent swearing Taylor was a Republican. The evidence was plain as a day. White country artist from Tennessee. She HAD to be.

We all soon found out otherwise.

So, this particular article hit home to me. I hope it isn't a dupe, and I hope you enjoy it.

The alt-right saw Taylor Swift as an 'Aryan goddess.' She shook them off as 'repulsive'

It’s all quite ironic because some of these same weird, angry, insecure men back in 2016 were idolizing Swift as an “Aryan goddess.” In May 2016, Vice wrote:

Nazis and members of the "alt right"—an Internet subculture that is best described as the venn diagram of hipster culture and white supremacy—have been spreading a conspiracy theory that Swift is a covert Nazi. They claim Swift's songs "red pilled" America into believing a conservative, racist agenda. …

"Firstly, Taylor Swift is a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry. Athena reborn. That's the most important thing," explains Andre Anglin, the writer of the white supremacist blog the Daily Stormer. "It is also an established fact that Taylor Swift is secretly a Nazi and is simply waiting for the time when Donald Trump makes it safe for her to come out and announce her Aryan agenda to the world. Probably, she will be betrothed to Trump's son, and they will be crowned American royalty." …

Now all of this was nothing more than these neo-Nazi fanboys projecting their white supremacist views onto Swift’s image. Swift, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with any white supremacist groups. The 19-year-old Swift revealed in a 2009 Rolling Stone interview that she supported President Barack Obama, saying, “I’ve never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive. I’m so glad this was my first election.”

At the time, Swift kept her political views to herself. In a 2012 interview, she told Time, “I don’t talk about politics because it might influence other people. And I don’t think that I know enough yet in life to be telling people who to vote for.” She did not make any endorsement in the 2016 presidential election.

Then came 2018 when Swift said she felt “sad” that she didn’t speak out during the 2016 election, and told her parents that this time, “I need to be on the right side of history.”

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