Idk If Anyone Here Has Been Paying Any Attention Whatsoever To The Drake Vs Kendrick Beef But I Am Losing

All the Olivia Rodrigo plagiarism is a mess but I'm so sick of swiffers acting like she just suddenly got credit out of the blue. She has full control over her team and who they go after. Whether it's fully suing, or sending cease and desist threats (like the jet tracker, the journalist who called her lowercase kkk, Etsy merch sellers) it's all her doing. People have been saying for years that she's had so many legal battles she's basically a lawyer now. Even if she has no legal grounds she knows that at this point, she's so big and powerful, that just the threat of being sued into bankruptcy is enough to get people to back down.

Exactly,

That other Anon wanted to say that Swift just got swept up in the legal dispute because of Farro. It's just unbelievable.

She's a grown woman and the face of a billion-dollar company. She's been in legal disputes so much in the last decade that I'm almost shocked. She knows what is going on. I just don't believe for a second that she had no ability to pull back, and say "never mind" or "no."

Anyway, I'm tired of her bullying people to get them to back down. She's done this so much that I just expect it at this point.

I think a lot of what's currently informing my fellow white people curdling like milk and shitting their pants when asked to interrogate their relationship with rap is the way many people (especially well-meaning white people) still can't help but think of racism as something that you get accused of rather than something that influences the entire world in pernicious ways.

like, I think a lot of people currently posting the most cringe takes about rap right now would very much agree that Racism Is Bad and probably even acknowledge that rap has been and is still widely maligned and devalues for racist reasons.

but that last step, acknowledging that your personal tastes and interests are also influenced by systemic racism, is where a LOT of people stumble. it's very easy to assume that because you consider yourself against racism, then your tastes and interests cannot possibly be at all informed by racist. if you're a white American, that's simply extremely unlikely to be true.

speaking from personal experience, I had to Work to decenter whiteness in my media tastes. when I was like 19 I listened to a podcast where a white Jewish man talked about keeping a spreadsheet of the books he read to make sure he was reading a roughly equal number of men and women, and I started doing the same thing to track how many authors of color I was reading. at the time I took pride in my belief that I was reading diversely, but when the year ended I was shocked to discover that people of color had written barely a quarter of the books I'd read. I had been giving myself way too much credit while still unintentionally prioritizing white authors, because white authors were the ones I knew best. so I started making an extremely conscious effort to seek out books by authors of color, both fiction and nonfiction, that sounded like my kind of shit.

music was extremely similar. I grew up a little white girl in a very white city in a very white state; nobody was offering me an education in rap or r&b or soul or hip hop. as an young adult there were definitely some Black artists I liked, like Janelle Monáe, but I had to take the initiative of seeking out more artists to find out who I fuck with. you're not going to like everybody, which is fine, but are you even giving anyone a chance? are you even looking?

racism has roots everywhere, bro. it's not enough to just acknowledge it, you have to actively get digging.

so ts trademarked female rage: the musical

after saying that during the ttpd part of her eras tour. I guess this is how she will try to get an emmy. Or she will release the eras tour new version under this name. Either way i find it a bit childish. I mean it is a saying on tiktok that she just trademarked. That is a bit of an overkill

She already has an Emmy.

Peoplemag

Singers and Musicians Who Have Won Emmys, Including Lizzo, Taylor Swift and More

From Lizzo and Adele to Taylor Swift and JAY-Z, here are some of the biggest music artists who have won an Emmy over the years.

'Female rage' is not 'a saying on TikTok' either. It's a saying that has been around for centuries! The trademark license has not been granted yet, and might not be because Swift didn't invent the phrase.

Artsy

A Brief History of Female Rage in Art, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Pipilotti Rist | Artsy

Over the centuries, artists from Artemisia Gentileschi to Pipilotti Rist have given form to powerful expressions of women’s anger.

palestine masterpost-masterpost

i've been trying my best to collect a bunch of links to other, more structured resources about the genocide in gaza, and what you, reading this, can do about it, that i'm going to compile here.

DON'T SCROLL PAST. LOOK THROUGH THE LINKS. REBLOG.

less and less people are talking about gaza every day, but it is still a very real crisis.

education, donations, speaking out, global links (masterpost)

links to contextual articles

for americans - state/congressional contacts

how you can help palestine - donations, petitions, campaigns, upcoming protests (masterpost)

non-politically motivated charity links

canary mission

petitions and congressional contact (masterpost)

education, current news, taking action, direct action and donations, current protests (masterpost)

small monetary actions

2700 ebooks on israel and palestine, available for free

thorough article by storiesfromgaza, dated 10/30/23

targeted boycott + bds

how to find state/congressional contacts, bds, email template, donation links

sudan and congo

egypt, us/uk/canada/europe congressional contacts

direct links to help palestine

educate yourself (twitter links)

translating gaza (instagram link)

bds/targeted boycott information

compilation of palestine info and how to support it (masterpost), dated 10/28/23

latest info as of 11/3/23 and large amounts of immediate action to take (masterpost)

history of palestine and israel - articles, books, films, social media (masterpost)

socials to follow

journalists in north gaza

btselem

The protests at Emory university in Atlanta have been met with the most violent police brutality by far. Students have been tased, tear gassed shot with rubber bullets and THEY WILL NOT STOP because they are courageous Beings with a heart to match and the common people will not accept anything less than a Free Palestine 🙏🍉

Social media users have launched “Operation Blockout” to mass block high-profile celebrities and influencers who have not used their platform to shed light on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and advocate for a ceasefire.

“These people have all the opportunity to make change in this world and instead of using their platform to talk about shit that matters, they use it to make themselves money. That’s it. Fuck ‘em. Block ‘em,” said one user on TikTok.

Some users are posting their daily block list on social media using the hashtags #blockout or #blockout2o24

THE AUDACITY OF THEM TO SAY THIS, FUCK NETFLIX FR

I have the BIGGEST side eye for anyone who says shit like 'celebrities aren't obligated to make political statements' or 'why do you even care what they think?'. Why the fuck would I want to support someone who sees what's happening in Palestine and has the power to inform their audience/fan base and simply doesn't? Why don't they care enough to say anything at all? How do they, as millionaires and billionaires with very real influence whether we want them to have it or not, not want to help? When they see these people suffering and begging to just survive, how do they continue about their lives and not WANT to speak out even once??

Like how do they see children being bombed and go 'oh, that's so sad...anyway, nothing I can do about it', when they absolutely can do something about it. Small content creators with only a few hundred people listening are doing more to help Palestine than Taylor Swift, Beyoncé or literally any other big-time celebrity with the power to both make massive change and preserve their careers through it all. So why, why the actual FUCK, would I want to support these celebrities in ANYWAY when I know that they are capable of ignoring what's happening in Gaza or any atrocity like this. Why would I give my time and possibly money to some cunt who can't get on Twitter for two minutes and post something as simple as 'I stand with Palestine' because sometimes that's all they need to fucking do!

Y'all can ask 'why do you even care what they think?' all you want, but I do care if someone I was openly supporting doesn't have the basic decency to want to help the people of Palestine when they are screaming to be heard. Where they stand on issues like this will ALWAYS be more important to me than their next album or TV show. Silence is compliance.