There is a movement among the pro-Arab groupings to try to force Taylor Swift to condemn the war in Gaza. I realise they are are just want her to speak up but actually they want her to condemn Israel.
Her duty as a human being is to condemn all war – in Sudan, in Yemen, in the Congo and all human rights abuses. She cannot be seen to be partisan. If she condemns one side and no the other she is open to being deeply criticised and abusing her own power as an influence on the public. That is the wrong place for her to be.
Celebrities who speak about the world are voyaging into politics, and unknown world to them. Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sonny Bono did this the right way – they went into the political arena. Her path is to put things into song, like the great protests artists of the 1960s.
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