Jason Aldean, "Try That in a Small Town"

[Ben]

NYT says that vigilante songs are okie doke as long as they're aimed at whitey, and you're racist if you call them out.

https://twitchy.com/gordon-kushner/2023/08/04/songs-about-killing-people-are-always-wrong-not-so-fast-says-the-new-york-times-n2386006

I also still view with interest the talking point that Aldean's song is racist, since he's (IMO) talking more about antifa type stuff, and most of them are rich white kids.

[Nick1911]

I first heard of the song from this thread.  I listened to it and really got the "us vs them" as a rural/urban divide.  I didn't see any racism in it personally.

Perhaps there's a certain worldview which sees racism in everything they find objectionable.

[K Frame]

Anything that the left doesn't like is automatically racist.

That's how you know you've won the conversation with a leftist.

[bedlamite]

And we have another, Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmond"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro

[WLJ]

Hand them a one way ticket to N.Korea

A group of communist revolutionaries burned multiple American flags outside a Jason Aldean concert in Chicago on Saturday night, according to videos of the incident.

The protesters were raising awareness of RevCom (Revolutionary Communist Party), which believes in creating a Marxist revolution in America, calling the USA "the belly of the beast." The RevCom activists burned American flags before police "declared an unlawful assembly and said their activism ‘alarmed and disturbed others,'" according to News2Share, who captured the videos.

"The Revolutionary Communist Party… has taken on the responsibility to lead a revolution in the U.S., the belly of the imperialist beast, as its principal share of the world revolution and the ultimate aim of communism," RevCom's website said.

The group's manifesto praises Mao for what it believes his use of the "scientific method" and some aspects of his Cultural Revolution.

Communist revolutionaries burn American flags outside Jason Aldean concert, claiming 'America was never great'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/communist-revolutionaries-burn-american-flags-outside-jason-aldean-concert-claiming-america-was-never-great

[HankB]

"The group's manifesto praises Mao for what it believes his use of the "scientific method" and some aspects of his Cultural Revolution. "

So they admire a bloodthirsty butcher who deliberately engineered the mass murder of more people than Hitler and Stalin combined.

This group isn't just sick, it's nauseatingly grotesque.