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By Michael Arceneaux, author of "I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé"
I don’t have any doubt that Taylor Swift meant well with the video for her latest single, “You Need to Calm Down.”

Last October, after being criticized for being apolitical, Swift wrote a lengthy post on Instagram in which she acknowledged being previously “reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions.” That stance changed “due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years” and resulted in the superstar endorsing two Democrats running in her native Tennessee and outlining some of her core beliefs — including a disavowal of systemic racism and the declaration that “any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG.”