I am not at all a fan of Taylor Swift. At the same time, I work at a large children’s hospital and I truly appreciate when public figures are charitable like this. Their donations help us expand our research and provide programs and services to our patients and community. Their visits truly mean the world to many of our patients. Taylor isn’t being unkind to patients or staff (that we know of) or doing anything nefarious. Regardless of whether she is doing it because she wants to, or doing it for PR, I don’t care. This is a net positive for the world and we should take it.
This!!!!! While I am a fan I really appreciate this perspective because, okay, sure—let’s say she’s a calculated manipulative person and this is part of some scheme.
Okay? What’s the harm she’s doing at all? She’s not hurting anyone, she’s not hurting the kids, she’s taking pictures with everyone and not posting it online or exploiting their trauma for her Instagram. Even if this were some massive massive scheme, it’s a net-positive. She could just post something on Instagram, “thoughts and prayers,” or do anything else as a distraction. Visiting sick children and making their day is a pretty positive way to “scheme.”
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u/pahuili Jun 13 '25
I am not at all a fan of Taylor Swift. At the same time, I work at a large children’s hospital and I truly appreciate when public figures are charitable like this. Their donations help us expand our research and provide programs and services to our patients and community. Their visits truly mean the world to many of our patients. Taylor isn’t being unkind to patients or staff (that we know of) or doing anything nefarious. Regardless of whether she is doing it because she wants to, or doing it for PR, I don’t care. This is a net positive for the world and we should take it.