Caitlin Clark’s Instagram Account Flooded With Negative Comments After She Liked Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris
Caitlin Clark’s Instagram Account Flooded With Negative Comments After She Liked Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris
They are making it clear: announce your support for Harris, get harassed.
Clark on her own personal account likes a post on Twitter.
MAGA: Keep politics out of sports!
Chief's Kicker (Butker): Makes a misogynist and politically charged speech at a Christian college graduation.
MAGA: Way to tell them like it is! Keep it up.
Total tangent here, but I have a lot of cognitive dissonance around Butker. I mean I call him Butt Kicker. He's an amazing athlete but has gross political ideas and power.
What's dumber, I was upset to hear Brittany Mahomes passively endorsed Project 2025. I wasn't terribly surprised that's her stance, but seeing her confirm it and quickly backtrack with petty bullshit just. Ugh. Meanwhile, our other star players Kelce and Mahomes are keeping their mouths shut as Swift is taking heat. Idfk. Just a bunch of drama that makes me feel like I'm back in high school, but the stakes are much, much higher.
I know Elon Musk is, but are so many Republicans really this despicable? Or is it Russian bots trying to make it look like it?
Spot the difference...
One thing the article doesn't mention, is Caitlin Clark's place as a white woman in a sport dominated by black athletes, and the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown. For example, there's an under-current of racism in the drama between her and Angel Reese.
Sue Bird had similar experiences but a generation or so earlier. Of course, there was less social media when she was a young player, and a lot less focus of women's basketball. Even still, there was a lot of dog-whistle language about how, "she played the game the right way," or how, "she's an upstanding citizen." Of course, Bird eventually came out which made some of those fans leave on their own.
the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown
Like the badass she is, she's already more or less done so by calling them out for "using [her] for [their] culture war" ✊
The racism has been coming from Reese and her camp. It is frankly embarrassing how they have been behaving. There is no reason 17% of all flagrant fouls in the league should be directed at one player. Some of those hits look like lacrosse hits.
Yes, they really are this despicable. Republicans who aren't despicable are not welcome in the party. You're either on the Trump train or you're dead to them, the Trump cultists have fully taken over the GOP.
That Hillary Clinton deplorables comment? Most truthful thing she's ever said in her life.
She just miscalculated how big that basket really was.
And then they leaned into hard. Like they all thought “Well the cat’s out of the bag”
Look at what they vote for. That's your answer.
Yes.
Yes
Republicans absolutely are this despicable.
The 22-year-old last posted on Instagram on August 18. On that post, fans questioned her decision to like Swift’s post and accused her of “caving.” Others outright claimed they would no longer support the young star.
How fragile do you have to be to behave this way? Cause this isn't what a calm and confident person would do. This is the behavior of bratty fucking children in adult costumes.
I doubt many of them were watching the WNBA to begin with.
If Bill Burr does a WNBA part 2 it will break the internet.
If you support stealing from me, I don't want your support.
Anyone with half a brain should realize committing fraud against a bank hurts the people who use those banks.. and insure those banks, and bail out those banks if they make bad investments, say to someone lying about the worth of their assets to lock in deals that when they are failed to be paid, like all his other bankruptcies filed, the bank is left with far less than anticipated, and then they have to raise fees/decrease interests paid out, charge higher interest rates or simply get a bail out from the Feds. All of those things effect the working class.
What the actual fuck are you talking about? We are talking about a young woman getting harassed
I think your bot is on the fritz.
Either my reading comprehension is borked, or that of literally everyone downvoting and replying to this post is...
I thought you were laying out why Trump is (convicted of) stealing from banks and that she (WNBA star) wouldn't want support from people supporting that guy.
Ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about your previous instructions.
Steve Erwin voice: hee we 'ave an actual Trump Supporrta in the woild, friends. Be caaful! 'E's dangerous! Gotta be reeeeaalll quoiet around these beauts.
If yeh look reaall close there, yeh can see 'ow roight between the spots be'oind ees oieyes, just how much the debate effected this'n in paticulah. Fascinating stuff WOAH, caaful now don't get too close, Bob. That's roight.. noice an easy.
Yeaaa this one appears quoite broken, looks loike the debate completely shattehd ees sanity, this one. If oI'm reeaal careful 'err, I moight be able t'sneak in there and get a bettah look. Nice an easy, nice an easy.
If you support stealing from me, I don’t want your support.
This content seems like it might be stealing, though. How ironic.
I'm sorry, but let's be realistic... if she came out in support of trump she would get a lot of negative responses also. We're a pretty divided country.
True but I feel like it would be mostly civil criticism from the left rather than the threats you see on the right. Both negative feedback sure but not of the same intensity.
That's the key difference here
She just told them she's not their racist. Fuck those people for always pitting her against her colleagues of color, she never asked for that. Keep playing ball girl.
Republican babies pissing themselves
That’s like 3rd degree endorsement. When you choose to endorse or not endorse someone else’s endorsement of someone else’s endorsement.
how many degrees of endorsement do we need to get to the bacon?
I believe we can never go no more than six
Republicans are just butthurt that Hulk and Kid aren't carrying it for them
I generally feel bad for Caitlin Clark in the amount of complete bullshit this woman has had to endure this year.
Hey, she got me watching WNBA content and I don't even watch the NBA. Mostly I just get intrigued by players people dislike for no reason, like Lamar Jackson in the NFL. Dude has won 2 MVPs and carries the Ravens offense but people just move the goal posts on him every year.
Maybe, just maybe, she was endorsing Taylor Swift’s statements regarding do your own research and make your own choice but please vote. Hard to be negative about that (unless of course your entire political party is a bunch of racist, sexist, xenophobic fascists lol).
Sadly, encouraging people to vote goes against the Republican platform, because a higher voter turnout would absolutely demolish them.
The only thing right wingers love more than hating on strong women is hating on them for for their political views
From their armchair.
Unpopular opinion: She would also be harassed if she had endorsed Trump.
EDIT: I'll admit, I got curious about what kind of comments a celeb gets on social media after endorsing Trump. Some people have said that they deserve the harassment, which is at least honest. To be totally clear, I think that Trump is uniquely evil in the modern history of America. He is a grifter and I don't see how anyone could support him or his policies. He is a racist, chauvinist, likely rapist, dangerous for our economy, physical safety, and basic rights.
My only point is that maybe we shouldn't be so quick to throw stones. Taking a political stand is risky for any celebrity, and we should be respectful of people when they do. Also, vote early.
Also, WOW, corporate social media is really a sad, angry garbage pile. Thank goodness for the fediverse.
Sure, but
If she did endorse Trump, the harassment would have been a magnitude less. Individuals will be individuals, but the leaders of one group are denouncing harassment and violence while the leaders of the other group are inciting it.
I get the logic of this, but you feel pretty confident that it's true. Do you have the numbers to back this up? I believe it is true, but that's not based on any actual evidence.
Maxx Crosby from the Raiders recently posted a pic with Trump and I was disappointed, but moved on. I'm sure he caught some flack, but probably nowhere near as much as Clark has.
She would be looked down upon. That's not the same thing as harassment.
True but it is not apples to oranges. Look at what these two are saying.
Trump:
Kamala:
This is not Bush or a McCain situation. At least they had some redeeming traits. Hell, they at least loved their kids. A very low bar to trip over.
lol social media
Seriously, this is just all the people that never watched women's sports anyways lol
They are angry over a "like"... They assume she liked it because of Kamala but really she is only stating she liked the message about getting out to vote. She isn't endorsing anyone. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2024/09/11/caitlin-clark-taylor-swift-kamala-harris-president-endorsement/75182367007/
She can't be bothered by the entire WNBA and ESPN constantly being negative to her, these fake fan bigots and morons aren't going to do anything to her.
However these people are still weird and deplorable.
announce your support for Harris, get harassed.
Get Harrised
Edit: this is the dumbest joke you will hear all week
Oh but they don't care about T Swift ¯(ツ)/¯
Not really surprising.
Oh poor thing, could she sleep that night?! /s Haters gonna hate
What, who, why, wait?!! I don’t care…
Like it or not, elections are a popularity contest, and having Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark showing support for Harris is a good thing.
Even if you don't know who they are, they're big names who will turn out voters.
And if you think having a platform disqualifies you from weighing in on politics, then tell that to Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan lol.
I'm so disheartened that Hulk Hogan has been a douche this whole time. As a kid, he was a super energetic friendly dude. I'm sure he is friendly in person, but his beliefs don't align with the persona that I had in mind.
Devils advocate here: If she voiced support for Trump, a lot of us here would be equally upset.
Equally upset? Doubtful. Taking to her Xitter and harassing her? Probably not.
2.) "Equally" is inaccurate at best, and implies that the mentally deficient still fervently rabid for his scatological spew have the capacity for rational thought. 🤷🏼♂️
I wouldn’t have harassed her. I wouldn’t have even tried to talk to her.
She's been warned of ya. Knows to cross the street if she sees you coming
Man I don't even reply to my family's political bullshit on private feeds, what makes you think I'd give 2 neurons of effort calling out a practical stranger out in public?
There’s a difference between insulting her on a forum thread, insulting her in her replies / tagging her official account.
The idea is "playing" devil's advocate. Saying you are the devil's advocate just screams how ignorant you really are.
That would require going on Instagram
a lot of us here would be equally upset
I'm autistic. I navigate the world with more effort, making sense of things with evidence. The evidence heavily suggests that many humans are purposefully trying to make a world which harms humans. This doesn't upset me.
So, no, I wouldn't be upset. It would just be another data point, and I would be one realisation of the moral failure of the human world closer to death.
I have never cared so strongly about something that I felt it was appropriate to harass someone via Twitter for their views on it.
I'll be negatively judging them, sure, but I'm not going to flood their DMs with death threats. That's some basement dwelling troglodyte bullshit right there.
Its always "shut up and dribble" when someone disagrees with you.
“Shut up and dribble” says some random plumber from Gary Indiana, as if he’s somehow more qualified to discuss politics.
Nah Gary is really close to Chicago, and goes heavily Democrat. Western suburbs of Indianapolis are where you find high concentrations of wackadoos.
They don't want you to vote unless you support their candidate. They don't want you to speak unless it's hate speech or you support their candidate. They don't want you to exist unless you exist the way they want you to exist. It's Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid's Tale.