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Subject: Re: Cal State Professor: It's Racist to be a Taylor Swift Fan
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:14:40 -0400
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:40:52 +0000
BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> ..oh, and the Chiefs' Super Bowl win is a "white supremacist
> conspiracy".
> 
> Who isn't sick of these people at this point?
> 
> This is the sort of sick asshole that makes a six-figure salary paid
> for by your tax dollars.
> 
> I see she also is one of those that perpetuates the out-and-out lie
> that police evolved from slave catchers and that there was no law
> enforcement before slavery. This is factually and utterly untrue, but
> this is what she teaches students at Cal State with our tax money.
> 
> ----------------------
> https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/us-news/professor-says-being-a-taylor-swift-fan-is-slightly-racist-chiefs-super-bowl-win-was-white-supremacist-conspiracy/amp/
> 
> A California professor, who is no stranger to controversial opinions,
> speculated that it might be racist to be a Taylor Swift fan.
> 
> "Why do I feel like it's slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?"
> Melina Abdullah posted to X.
> 
I posted here several weeks ago about a university in the Philippines
that was offering a course in Taylor Swift. (As I recall, it was just a
single elective but if it becomes popular maybe it will be possible to
get a degree in Taylor Swift.) 

I guess the folks in the Philippines are really racist then, right,
even if they are not "white" by the normal definition. 

> Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University
> Los Angeles, is a self-described "#BlackLivesMatter organizer,
> Pan-Africanist, Hip Hop scholar, daughter of God, womanist,
> truth-teller, mama," according to her post on X. She is also listed
> as a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter's Los Angeles chapter and
> co-director of the activist wing of the advocacy organization, Black
> Lives Matter Grassroots.
> 
I have no idea what a "womanist" is supposed to be, do or think so I'll
grant her that until I hear a definition. But calling her a
"truth-teller" is nonsense: the correct term (which I just made up) is
a "feelings-teller" because that's what she does, tells others about
her feelings. Truth has nothing to do with it. As for being a Hip Hop
scholar, that is about as impressive as being a Fecal scholar, except
not as useful because doctors sometimes get important health
information from feces. Expertise in Hip Hop is about as useless as
anyone can imagine. 

> When one user asked her to elaborate on her opinion she replied: "I
> said FEEL, not think. Kind of like that feeling I get when there are
> too many American flags." In the same post someone commented that
> "Literally everything is racist." Abdullah responded "Indeed!"
> 
> A few hours later, she followed up in another post on X after the
> Kansas City Chiefs had won the game: "Why do I feel like this was
> some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!!
> #SuperBowl."
> 
> "Folks think they're attacking me by asking why I think everything is
> racist... I'm not offended. Virtually everything is racist," she
> wrote in another post addressing the attention she received from her
> previous posts.
> 
> She has previously shared controversial opinions on Twitter. In 2022,
> she told white people they weren't welcome to Juneteenth celebrations.
> 
> "Attention white people... Please don't ask if you can come to the
> cookout... #Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks," she posted to
> Twitter in June 2022. "It should be #Reparations day for white folks."
> 
> In December 2021, two days before Jussie Smollet was found guilty of
> staging a fake hate crime, she argued for his innocence.
> 
> "In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police,
> especially the Chicago Police Department (CPD) over Jussie Smollett,
> a black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in
> the struggle for black freedom. While policing at-large is an
> irredeemable institution, CPD is notorious for its long and deep
> history of corruption, racism, and brutality," she wrote in a
> statement on the Black Lives Matter website.
> 
> In 2017, at a conference on intersectionality and discrimination,
> Abdullah said today's police officers are the "slave catchers" of
> yesteryear: "You literally have a target on your back. That is what
> policing was founded on and that is what it evolved out of,"
> according to reporting by The College Fix. 



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Rhino