• Feirdro@lemmy.world
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      Normalized violence by singing how he was going to hurt protestors…

      in a town with a history of lynchings.

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      Jason Aldean, the song’s called "try that in a small town. Basically threatening to shoot the “wrong people” if they go to small country towns.

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        I don’t know the song, are the “wrong people” shooting kids or holding hands with a person of the same gender?

        I have a hunch it’s the latter, but I want to have some hope.

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          No mention of LGBT people in the lyrics, but the music video has footage probably meant to evoke the BLM protests and he recorded scenes for the video in front of a courthouse with a history of race riots and lynching ( Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, TN. Mostly the lyrics of the song seem to be talking about “city crime” and conservative no-nos like flag burning and disrespecting police. There’s also a “don’t come for our guns” line.

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      Some dumb country singer apparently put out a new piece of shit glorifying and encouraging violence against people protesting for a better life for all.

      I don’t know the name, don’t care to either. Just another conservative bigot

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    As a Texan, I feel I have the right to ask this very important question…

    Has anyone else noticed how the symmetry of the inner and outer shape of a cowboy hat is strongly reminiscent of an inverted toilet bowl?

    Just curious.