Let’s just say I’ve been personally subjected to my fair share of scapegoating. I know it when I see it, I call it out when I can. But the person who calls out the mob is often drowned out by the angry voices of those who are not equal to the demands of finding real solutions and are fixated on simply choosing a…

I haven’t followed your posts on the subject, so I’m not singling you out. Nor am I a TS stan with a mission. But what I am 100% against is the unbridled scapegoating evidenced on this site. The surging, mob vindictiveness, the willingness to hang blame for a preposterous list of social ills on an easy mark. I find it…

Oh yes, now a 26 y/o pop singer is the symbol of Domestic Violence. Got it. Women, POC, gays– anyone who has ever been scapegoated should know better than to engage in this kind of behavior.

Know your history of mob psychology. Scapegoating is the selection of a vulnerable person to “blame” for social problems. These forums stink with it.

Didn’t you get the memo? Taylor Swift can now be blamed for the following:

I’m flattered that you joined Kinja (or created a new burner) for the sole purpose of submitting a response to my comment. It must have made quite an impression on you.

Didn’t you get the memo? Taylor Swift can now be blamed for the following:

She is now accused of ripping off Beyoncé’s formation pose and plantation setting in her new video teaser

Well I suppose that’s one interpretation. A really lousy one.

Me too.

Thank you.

Well, thank you for that very reassuring article right before bedtime.

Narratives vs hard science. I think we may have to relegate storytelling to creating the future instead of the past.

95%+ of paparazzi activity is self generated.

I thought listening to a recording of my voice was torture until I saw myself videotaped.

This looks execrable.

“I hand him the envelope and I say, ‘Don’t read it now, let’s have a nice dinner,” Sheindlin said, in cadences we can only assume were vaguely Fat Tony-esque. “Call me tomorrow. You want it, fine. Otherwise, I’ll produce it myself.’ That’s the negotiation.”

Apparently at AV Club white, blonde pop figures are not the automatic targets of unfettered contempt like they are on Jezebel.

Perhaps. But the old saying comes to mind, Wherever you go, there you are.