I'm trying to understand what the problem is with the American Civil Liberties Union defending someone's civil liberties. If they aren't willing to defend offensive speech, what's the point in defending free speech at all?
The speech in question is making extremely toxic and hateful accusations based on NOTHING to a person who does not deserve such an unprovoked attack.
It looks like it's accusing her of remaining silent and supposing that this has some effect. As long as they don't slander her (make a claim that she said something she didn't say, for example), it's protected speech.
Unfortunately, there will always be morons who read a baseless blurb on the internet and swallow it hook, line, and sinker. I personally don't care about such retards.
An excerpt from the article in question.
"“Silence in the face of injustice means support for the oppressor,” the article states.
The article goes on to suggest that lyrics from Swift’s songs and imagery from her videos is meant to embolden racists.
“Taylor’s lyrics in ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ seem to play to the same subtle, quiet white support of a racial hierarchy. Many on the alt-right see the song as part of a ‘re-awakening,’ in line with Trump’s rise,” the article reads. “At one point in the accompanying music video, Taylor lords over an army of models from a podium, akin to what Hitler had in Nazis Germany. The similarities are uncanny and unsettling.”"
The article is claiming that she "said" something, with her "silence".
Those "retards" you dismiss are the type of people to riot at your concerts or murder you with a brick.
The media has become a problem in our society.