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The day after Taylor Swift’s birthday she dropped a brand new lifestyle app called The Swift Life. It’s been out for a short four days and already things are heating up between Swifties.
The app lets fans connect with each other, have access to exclusive Taylor content and Taymojis. Naturally, the fan forums have turned into a political shit show.
Taylor’s liberal and conservative fans are attacking one another. Fans are criticizing other fans who they voted for or supported in the 2016 presidential election. Conservative fans are also posting homophobic and anti-LGBT messages.
OMFGDGSFS pic.twitter.com/lUWj75WQmG
— lexie nsfr (@haylor) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/tswiftsgomez/status/941964893049245696
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Everyone has a right to be a fan of whoever they please, no matter their political beliefs. But spewing anti-LGBT hate makes The Swift Life not a safe space for LGBT Swifties.
It's astonishing to me that some people are like "delete the screenshots of fans being racist/xenopohobic/homophobic/transphobic on the swift life before people drag taylor for it!!" like… 1) she's a grown ass woman and 2) how do you not understand that those
— 👑 leslie jordan stan account 👑 (@wordsarefriends) December 18, 2017
Kinds of things immediately make the swift life a non-safe space for a lot of people? Y'all are fucking wild. Gain some courage and call those people out for their fucked up beliefs. Speak out about how those posts don't get censored but others by poc and queer fans do.
— 👑 leslie jordan stan account 👑 (@wordsarefriends) December 18, 2017
Don't allow people who believe that someone else doesn't have a right to exist to have a platform on the swift life. I'm sorry, I'm not going to suddenly set aside my differences with my oppressors so that we can all talk about how much we love taylor !!11!! <13
— 👑 leslie jordan stan account 👑 (@wordsarefriends) December 18, 2017
Supposedly fans say that the problematic racist and homophobic posts are being taken down. Taylor’s app turned into a hotbed of politics so quickly, which is ironic because Taylor is very quiet about her political beliefs.
She never gave support for a presidential candidate or has spoken out about poignant political issues. The only one that she has been vocal about is the #MeToo movement because it directly affects her groping case.
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But maybe now that the political conversation has moved to her own app she will speak out and take a stand for her fans.
