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Ah, but what if I were a white woman? I’d be crucified! CRUCIFIED.

There is no tsunami (unless you’re counting the waves of fawning fans and media profiles that helped Ms. Swift top entertainment earners last year to the tune of $170+ million), there is no mob behavior (unless you’re talking about ticket sales—or do those not count?), there is no scapegoating (unless you’re counting

I know, right? “Hateful.” That’s absurd. It was ONE speech, and at the MTV Video Music Awards—a fun, meaningless, drunken shitshow. Taylor Swift had already won multiple, major industry awards; it’s not like he ruined the first, only, or most special moment she’d ever had. He talked for like ten seconds—said literally

Its hard to feel bad for her. Starting from the beginning with her im-not-like-the other-girls “she wears short skirts, I wear t shirts...” well umm she is naturally tall, blonde, skinny without trying, pretty, good voice, healthy, young, lots of friends, handsome suitors, and rich. She was never an ugly fat,

This comment is GOLD.

K, when she stops gauging out her opponents eyes, so will we.

Well, right. That’s what they always say to people of color. Stop whining, it’s not a big deal. It’s only one award. What did Miley Cyrus say about Nikki minaj speaking up? She mocked her for caring about winning a vma. The fact of the matter is, people of color have been institutionally shut out of the privilege of

Ahh...being rude, the worst crime in white America. This was a boiling point for Kanye and others who feel as though POC have been getting robbed of recognition (and profit) despite being overwhelmingly qualified. So time and time again it happens, and when black people get mad and “act out” they get shamed and hated

Here’s the issue with that particular position: Taylor has been doing the public shaming and stoning of other people for her entire career. Everyone from her childhood best friend, former love interests, to other pop stars have been fodder for her unending campaign of Poor Me. Let’s not forget that the Greatest Crime

I’m not sure I tell you I love you enough.

Don’t we though? I thought the ticker tape parade was going too far but the immediate agreement to only speak of Kanye and his actions in the most laudatory terms—a rule made and observed by the mainstream press which is always looking for a way to shit on beloved white women at the expense of any black person but espe

That shit Leno pulled turned me against him for life. Poor Kanye was choking back tears. I doubt he ever even met the woman. What made him think he had the right to speak on what she would have thought of her son? If he did know her well, and if Kanye had shot someone or beat up an orphan, sure, tell him his mother

I think that’s a very color blind and overly simplistic reading of this situation. Kanye inappropriately expressed the frustration that all people of color feel when our exceptional achievements are consistently ignored and white mediocrity is rewarded instead. He wasn’t trying to be hateful towards Taylor swift, he

I think the fallout from this has been a long time in the making. She’s overexposed and has annoyed so many people to no end that all she needed was one public slip up to finally get called out. The backlash is much bigger than the feud with Kanye. It’s the result of five albums and eight years worth of backbiting and

Hateful? Come on.

I think saying it was hateful is over exaggerating. Not an excuse, but he was drunk off his ass. Celebrities have gotten drunk and done much more horrible things and they get a pass. Kanye apologized everywhere, Jay Leno told him that he made his dead mother ashamed, and the president called his a jackass. I think

She over-played her hand and underestimated her opponent. This was always going to end this way for her. Always.

The only time I haven’t supported Kanye was when he revealed himself as a Cosby apologist but other than that, I overlook the egomania. If it were a white musician with that bravado, most people wouldn’t bat an eye. And it’s not like Kanye doesn’t have the work to backup his claims of greatness, his music is

Taylor needs smarter people advising her. If she had just feigned disinterest over Kanye’s song, no one would have cared. But she had to keep going with the Miss Innocent act and now she just looks even more ridiculous.

I'm team Kanye for life.