Some people and/or statements are so amazingly stupid that the only appropriate response is to laugh at the statements and ridicule the people.
Saira Rao is the stupid person in this case, and her claim that Time Magazine’s naming of Taylor Swift as Person of the Year is a celebration of the “White love of Black and brown genocide” is a ridiculous statement worthy of ridicule.
Rao, you may remember, is the grifter who has convinced bored middle-aged White women to pay her unGodly sums of money to call them irredeemable racists. This business model, I admit, is pure genius, as Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs) love to show their virtue by pretending to believe they are “doing the work” to become better people.
It’s about gaining virtue points they can use to look down on others, and Rao sells them virtue points.
I’ve written about Rao before, not merely to make fun of her or her clients, although that is amusing, but because she has been celebrated in the media as a Very Serious Person doing the important work or dismantling White supremacy or something.
Rao lost her representation by a talent agency because she crossed the line in comments about the Israel-Hamas war, accusing Israel of genocide and implying she supported terrorism. In her defense, Rao is no worse to Jews than she is to Whites in general because she is a hateful bigot who despises everyone whose shade of skin is lighter than her own. (Not that all Jews are White by any means, but you get the idea).
She is an equal-opportunity hater and should have been ditched by her talent agents long ago.
In any case, getting to the troll…
Rao’s statements about Taylor Swift’s Whiteness or wealth are throwaways and totally standard; what isn’t is Rao’s claim that Swift could end the Israel-Hamas war with an Instagram post. Rather than argue about it, the wags at Twitter’s Community Notes decided to take the claim seriously and debunk it, almost Babylon Bee-style.
Historically, conflicts and wars have not ended due to Instagram posts. Therefore, it is extremely unlikely that an Instagram post made by Taylor Swift will end the war in Gaza.
parleypolicy.com/post/how-wars-…
I laughed out loud and thought: “Community Notes for the win!”
People like Rao and her admirers take themselves so seriously, and nothing works like ridicule to put them in their place.
I happen to like some of Swift’s music (because I am a shallow, shallow man), but I loved some of the jokes at Time’s and Taylor’s expense when the announcement was made:
Stalin. Hitler. Putin. Swift.
All Time Persons of the Year. Makes you think. pic.twitter.com/2LPbxeHg8R
— futureformer.brk.b.bti.schd.kof (@futureformerJD) December 6, 2023
Stalin. Hitler. Putin. Swift.
It makes you think, doesn’t it?
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