Prof: Liking Taylor Swift Is Racist

Is being a Taylor Swift fan a symptom of White supremacy?

Why yes, yes, it is. At least if you are a BLM-aligned professor who loves to spout off about how racist everybody but Black people are. 

Professor says being a Taylor Swift fan is ‘slightly racist,’ Chiefs Super Bowl win was ‘white supremacist conspiracy’ https://t.co/RY5kd8v1Fn pic.twitter.com/tOhdmRImn6

— New York Post (@nypost) February 26, 2024

Your finding this assertion absurd, as it is likely you do, is further proof that America is a fundamentally racist country, as is, no doubt, the fact that Melina Abdullah is a professor at Cal State, Los Angeles. After all, everything is racist. 

I have a confession to make: I think Taylor Swift’s 1989 is actually a really good album, and that a good chunk of her work prior to that was pretty good as well. It wasn’t until she started hanging out with Lena Dunham (another White woman, and hence racist) that her work turned to woke and became insufferable. 

I think you know what that means: I am simultaneously a teenage girl and a racist. I’m not sure which is worse, but I will consult with the alphabet ideologists to see if my trans identity cancels out my Whiteness. 

Professor Abdullah has also joined the conspiracy theorists in believing the Super Bowl was rigged, although her thought is not that Patrick Mahomes won the Super Bowl to help reelect Joe Biden, but rather in order to promote White supremacy.

This is what comes from being a professor of “Pan-African Studies,” I suppose. Although it shouldn’t be. After all, Africa is the largest continent in the world, with 1.2 billion people. It has hundreds of different cultures, a rich and interesting history, and enormous economic and political problems worthy of study. 

Not one of those should lead an intelligent person to muse about Taylor Swift and the Superbowl outcome to be linked to White supremacy. It’s not even clear to me that there is a lot of crossover between studying Africa and African Americans, who are hardly more connected to the continent than I am. 

What’s striking about this idiocy is how not striking it is anymore. When everything is racism, nothing is. “Racism” is a word that has become devoid of meaning; its utterance is a reflex and nothing more. 

If you are listening to a BLM-affiliated professor, you might as well be chatting with Google Gemini. There is no analysis, no creative thought, and nothing to learn. 

Every utterance follows a script–so much so that one is talking to a character, not a person, who could have been written by a 12-year-old writing her first play.