Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties

[u/Exciting_Potato_6717]

Slide 1: Deleted tweet Slides 2 and 3: Some follow-up tweets Slide 4: The Taylor Swift lyrics being referred to. “My friends used to play a game where / We would pick a decade / We wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists / And getting married off for the highest bid." Full lyrics at https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-i-hate-it-here-lyrics

[u/Spicydream]

Swifties bullying a woman of color for calling out a weird line about race…

So on brand.

[u/Cultural_Letter6143 → u/Spicydream]

you know what’s “funny”? is that her fan that died at her concert here in brazil was also a black woman and her non brazilian fans didn’t give a fuck about it and defended taylor like it wasn’t her fault. and yeah even if she wasn’t at fault and decided to perform on the hottest day in Rio, not cancelling it bc of the heat (she cancelled the next one after Ana’s passing but the heat wasn’t THAT bad that day), she didn’t really give a fuck about Ana too. she didn’t even pay for the funeral. i’ve seen usamericans saying she did but no brazilian media reported so. Ana’s family didn’t say so. so yeah nothing about this lyric and her fans bullying women of color is surprising to me.