Great comment, thanks for linking it. Unfortunately it seems like the sides have been “set” and we have to hate him now or we’re literally Nazis. Your phrase “wholesomely uneducated” seems a bit condescending but tbh I can’t think of a better way to phrase it. I met 100 of him when I lived in TN. Genuinely good people who were victims of misinformation and secularism social insularism.
Whoops got my vocabulary wrong. Meant insularism. Southern culture specifically encourages social isolation and a toxic self-reliance attitude in men. It promotes an ideology of “everyone who isn’t like me is wrong” and “ill never ask for help or ask for someone to teach me a new thing” which, coupled with the most gutted public education in the country, pushes many right into the arms of the RNC who tell them exactly what they want to hear. I saw it happen to many of my childhood friends, family, and even myself for a short time.
Yeah, I mean I wanted to be nice because he is passionate and something tells me his heart is in the right place, even if that lyric is misguided af.
I talked about this a lot yesterday.
I’ve watched a few of his non music videos to see if I sniff it out and I don’t catch a bad vibe from him beyond that lyric.
I think the general issue with Conservatism as a modern ideology is that it only spreads through uneducated crowds. We can’t blame people for the bad education they got.
He talks about the pure joy he’s getting out of people enjoying his content. He even deliberately tried to deliver a message of inclusivity to ward off the conservative crowd from making him their mascot.
Getting overnight fame is hard and I hope he handles it well and in a way that enables him to share his talents for good.
He didn’t say these things to a million people. He said it to his cell phone camera in his back yard. It wasn’t ironed out, nuanced, it was just kinda… Wholesomely uneducated.
But the important thing is that overnight success is hard. The devil is tempting this kid left and right, no doubt. He is telling folks off for misappropriating his message, and saying no to big money.
Hopefully this amount of public scrutiny cleans up his message and doesn’t dull his passion. It’s a delicate balance. Idk. It’s a good song, and I’m a northern liberal metal head who kinda hates country.
The fact that everyone ignore that “that line” is proceeded by a call for politicians to address the homelessness crisis and followed by lyrics about how workers are being exploited and lied to by rich southern coal mine owners should tell you all there is to know about the main message of the song.
I genuinely feel sorry for him for releasing a song in criticism the state governments of the south and getting “picked up” specifically by those people whom he hates because of one stupid, naive lyric.
I said most of what I wanna say yesterday
Great comment, thanks for linking it. Unfortunately it seems like the sides have been “set” and we have to hate him now or we’re literally Nazis. Your phrase “wholesomely uneducated” seems a bit condescending but tbh I can’t think of a better way to phrase it. I met 100 of him when I lived in TN. Genuinely good people who were victims of misinformation and
secularismsocial insularism.What’s a victim of secularism? How can you be a victim of not bringing religion into a discussion?
Whoops got my vocabulary wrong. Meant insularism. Southern culture specifically encourages social isolation and a toxic self-reliance attitude in men. It promotes an ideology of “everyone who isn’t like me is wrong” and “ill never ask for help or ask for someone to teach me a new thing” which, coupled with the most gutted public education in the country, pushes many right into the arms of the RNC who tell them exactly what they want to hear. I saw it happen to many of my childhood friends, family, and even myself for a short time.
To play devil’s advocate
A lot of DeSantis but jobs would probably believe deep in their souls that Disney is “victim of secularism”.
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Yeah, I mean I wanted to be nice because he is passionate and something tells me his heart is in the right place, even if that lyric is misguided af.
I talked about this a lot yesterday.
He didn’t say these things to a million people. He said it to his cell phone camera in his back yard. It wasn’t ironed out, nuanced, it was just kinda… Wholesomely uneducated.
But the important thing is that overnight success is hard. The devil is tempting this kid left and right, no doubt. He is telling folks off for misappropriating his message, and saying no to big money.
Hopefully this amount of public scrutiny cleans up his message and doesn’t dull his passion. It’s a delicate balance. Idk. It’s a good song, and I’m a northern liberal metal head who kinda hates country.
The fact that everyone ignore that “that line” is proceeded by a call for politicians to address the homelessness crisis and followed by lyrics about how workers are being exploited and lied to by rich southern coal mine owners should tell you all there is to know about the main message of the song.
I genuinely feel sorry for him for releasing a song in criticism the state governments of the south and getting “picked up” specifically by those people whom he hates because of one stupid, naive lyric.
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