An anti-racism activist was slammed online for knocking TIME Magazine’s choice of Taylor Swift as its 2023 Person of the Year after claiming the singer could end the Israel-Hamas war with a single post.
Saira Rao — founder of Race2Dinner which “facilitates radically honest conversations between white women and BIWOC” over dinner parties — called Time’s pick “white nonsense, white violence, white love of Black and brown genocide.”
“The white American woman billionaire who could end the genocide of Palestinians with on [sic] IG post is TIME Person of The Year,” Rao tweeted.
The tweet faced near-instant ridicule on X.
“Being able to end a genocide with a single Instagram post is power I wasn’t aware Taylor Swift had,” journalist Yashar Ali tweeted in response.
“I thought she made music. I didn’t realize she was an international relations expert,” another user wrote on the platform.
“Man people question Taylor Swift’s power, thankfully Saira Rao is not one of…
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