But I will say this, a movement can’t get along without a devil, and across the whole political spectrum there is a misogynistic tendency to choose a female devil, whether it’s Anita Bryant, Hillary Clinton, Marie Antoinette, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or J.K. Rowling [or Taylor Swift]. And there’s always gonna be people who seize on any opportunity to be misogynistic. So I would advise trans people and our allies [or environmentalists] to keep in mind, that J.K. Rowling [Taylor Swift] is not the final boss of transphobia [anti-environmentalism]. She’s not our devil. The devil is the Republican Party, the Conservative Party.
—Natalie Wynn (emphasis and bracket text mine)
Pretty sure it’s a campaign message. Throw lots of ‘oh look Taylor is destroying the environment with her jet’ noise around the interwebs to try and discredit her voice against Trump. It’s a PR campaign designed by toddlers.
It originated on Fox News. They are trying to paint her as a hypocrite. Now all these dummies are just parroting them. Memes turn everyone into drooling morons. Heh, plane. I saw meme. funny. Heh. Taylor Swift bad. Plane.
every day i wake up and am sad that we live in a world where PR designed by toddlers works :(
The venn diagram of people concerned enough about the climate to dislike Taylor Swift and people who would ever vote Trump are two distant, distant circles
It’s not about Republicans caring about the climate, it’s about delegitimizing Swift’s statements against them. They can paint her as a hypocrite and drown out anything she has to say, basically.
And yet, Trump voters just love the owner of an electric car company.
They care more about attacking than consistency.
(They don’t live him because he makes electric cars)
Put a carbon tax on jet fuel and use the proceeds to build better carbon neutral public infrastructure and she can fly as much as she wants for all I care
Unfortunately the target audience is also toddlers, so it is very effective.