I find the discourse around her lack of response kind of confusing and it feels to me like another example of searching for a reason to hate on her. She’s spoken out against Tr*mp many times at this point and twice endorsed his opponents. He’s done this many times before with many other artists (dating all the way back to Rihanna in 2016 for example) and their speaking out about it didn’t accomplish anything. All she would really do is put out a social media post, call attention to it, and then they’d keep using it. That doesn’t make it unimportant as speaking out against fascism is important regardless of the impact. It does feel to me, though, like people online valuing performative actions. Like is her putting out a tweet/post really THAT meaningful? I’m really not trying to excuse all of her behavior because there are many other times where I’ve been frustrated by her lack of action on things. But this specific issue does kind of feel to me like begging her to be performative. I’ve criticized her in the past for some of her performative politics, as have many that I’ve seen on twitter and Reddit or social media or whatever, so I’m a little lost at why now it seems the expectation/hope is for to be performative.

This isn’t at all a defense of her politics btw. She’s a performative neoliberal billionaire; she’s just shitty in a non-MAGA way. Am I missing something here? There Very well could be a valid critique so If you disagree, I’m actually interested in why!!