According to TMZ.com, Taylor Swift took a photo with a young man she did not know, but was wearing a t-shirt with a Swastika painted right on its front where you can't miss it.
What the heck was Taylor Swift thinking?
Her representative told TMZ.com the following:
"Taylor took pictures with about 100 people that night ... she doesn't know who this guy is and she didn't realize what was on his shirt."
She didn't know who the guy was? He's a Hollywood-based model named AJ English who's 22 years old according to his MySpace page and who's hometown is Boise, Idaho.
How did this all start?
Taylor Swift was invited to a birthday party at The Beach On Sunset in West Hollywood thrown by singer Katy Perry, who turned 25. The attendees were told to wear white shirts and they would be spray painted in accordance with the "Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory" theme that Perry called her "extravaganza."
Here are two videos from the party, just to give you a good visual of the scene:
Taylor Swift's white dress had the words "JH" on them which some bloggers believed to mean "Jew Hater" because of the photo, but actually refer to her friend Julianne Hough.
Taylor Swift and AJ English
According to the The UK Daily Mail his shirt design "started out as an 'X' but was 'perverted' as the night went on." English says he's not at all racist and is not a Neo-Nazi.
And while he did apologize to Swift on Twitter...
Front page of TMZ.... sorry Taylor...11:21 AM Oct 29th from web
He's clearly enjoying his new-found fame:
LOVE YOU RT @grekotv my bestie involved in first hollywood scandal with taylor swift: http://tinyurl.com/ylb4fa6 kind of amazing.2:54 PM Oct 29th from web
What bothers me is that Taylor Swift herself has (as of this writing) not put out a statement regretting the photo she is in. She could solve the problem with a single tweet or website statement, but nothings there on her Twitter page or site!
That, to me, shows that she doesn't really get the gravity of what she's done. The Swastika is the Worldwide symbol of hate and stands for a period of World history where Nazi Germany worked to systemically exterminate Jews.
I don't care that Taylor Swift is 19, she should know that.
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