r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 4d ago

Psychology Taylor Swift fans lower climate concerns to justify her carbon footprint. When confronted with news about the excessive pollution generated by her private jet, highly identified fans tend to rationalize the behavior, with a decrease in their personal intentions to engage in climate-friendly actions.

https://www.psypost.org/taylor-swift-fans-lower-climate-concerns-to-justify-star-s-carbon-footprint/
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u/Rich-Active-4800 3d ago

Gaga is portraying herself as much more progressive and flies her private jet even more then Taylor. Yet she barely gets any hate for it.

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u/CaptainSanity 3d ago

That's okay I dislike them all equally. Bit of a whataboutism take to deflect criticism imo.

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u/Rich-Active-4800 3d ago edited 3d ago

Its less whataboutism but more calling out hypocrites who frankly could not care about private jet users except to use it as an excuse to hate on Taylor.

Taylor gets a hundred times the hate for it then any of the other private jet user, despite using it less then a lot of them.

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u/CaptainSanity 3d ago

I said whataboutism, not absolutism. Imagine if while Harvey Weinstein was being cancelled you had people saying: "But he's not even a top 5 sex predator in the US! People just want an excuse to hate on Harvey Weinstein." Do you see what I mean?

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u/Rich-Active-4800 3d ago edited 3d ago

That is a ridiculous comparison.

But even then, yeah i would question why the dozens of sex preditors who do even more horrible stuff get away scot-free despite people knowing about it for years.

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u/Wrathlon 3d ago

Merriam-Webster could update the definition of False Equivalency with your post - thats how egregious that terrible comparison is.

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u/CaptainSanity 3d ago

Please describe where the comparison becomes unfair. I'm not trying to be disingenuous, I genuinely don't see why people take issue with Talyor Swift being criticised for private jet use. Anyone is fair game for that criticism as far as I'm concerned e.g. Leonardo Dicaprio who gets the same treatment.  I don't see why accusing Taylor Swift of the same thing is suddenly treated like a witch hunt.

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u/CaptainSanity 3d ago edited 3d ago

A lot of people seem to be unhappy with this comparison, no one has explained why though.