Tag: exploitation
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Taylor Swift Accused of Exploiting and Appropriating the LGBTQ+ Community
Pop star Taylor Swift has been accused of exploiting and appropriating the LGBTQ+ community for her own gain. In June 2019, she released “You Need to Calm Down,” a song that some fans felt was insensitive to the community. Swift performed the song again during her “Eras” tour, which coincided with Pride events, further fueling…
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Examining the Flaws in Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America”
Sociologist Matthew Desmond poses a simple question in his new book, Poverty, by America: “Why is there so much poverty in America?” Desmond, a MacArthur genius-grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted, seeks to answer this question both as a social scientist and as a “poverty abolitionist.” He argues that we collectively exploit the…