Jason Aldean Addresses 'Small Town' Backlash at Cincinnati Show: 'Cancel Culture Is a Thing'
Jason Aldean Addresses 'Small Town' Backlash at Cincinnati Show: 'Cancel Culture Is a Thing'
“I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us,” country singer tells crowd after “long-ass week” of con…
"I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us," country singer tells crowd after "long-ass week" of controversy
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Restore our country to what it was? Oh, you mean having black people in the back of the bus and LGBTQ people in the closet.
Personally, if we're going to revert anything to the 1950's, I say bring back the 1950's tax brackets. In 1955, anything a person earned over $400,000 ($4.4 million in today's money) was taxed at 91%.
When I grew up we bullied gay children until they killed themselves. I'll take cancel culture going too far over that any day.
your reading to far into it. just like the people who think the song is racist. which btw prove me wrong and find one line in the song that mentions, race religion, or ethnicity
Well Mr Aldean did choose a stunningly iconic shooting location for the video. As the Washington Post reported:
Aldean’s performance backdrop is the Maury County Courthouse, which at times appears to be on fire as images of burning American flags are projected onto it. It’s the same building where a mob hanged 18-year-old Henry Choate from the balcony in 1927. The teen had been accused of attacking a White girl who never identified him as her assailant, and whose mother begged the mob to let him stand trial.
Columbia is also the site of an infamous 1946 race riot that nearly resulted in the lynching of future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.
The footage he used in the video seems to equate civil rights protesting as violent crime and rioting, in in the judicial use of footage from these types of events that are juxtaposed to each other in his music video.
The video itself is a little silly in that small towns are not responsible for civil rights movements as they are inherently a very conservative environment, that does not foster independent thought. Surprise surprise. However, the video has a very pro conservative tone that implies that protesting will be met by violence.
You're arguing in bad faith. The poster said that wanting culture to regress ignores the fact that our culture used to be cruel to minorities. The reason people weren't canceled for being conservative is that liberal democracy was oppressing minorities to satisfactory levels for these bigots. Now that liberal democracy is being less bigoted, conservatives like this guy want to get rid of the it. The statement is racist, while the song is anti freedom of speech and definitely anti American.
Welp assuming Mr. Aldean had any hand in editing the video that is pretty damning. If he didn't and doesn't think his song is about race then he should publicly disavow his own video. Since he hasn't, I think that is pretty straightforward.
this is in no way reliable information you might as-well give a a hand written note saying "i want to be right" the music video that you are trying to reference at https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY which is official. Has no newspaper clipping that your false information has, also site your sources for credibility
also lets say the hypothetical that this is real Tictok is by no means credible for news, secondly music videos are done by hired directors which usually have nothing to do with the song for example, Hoziers take me to church. if you read the lyrics it says nothing out gay people when the music video shows about the over reach of the catholic church on gay people. two completly seprate things the music and the music video
Here… https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1682935514989756417
It's from the man himself. Why does Jason Aldean's racist dog whistles have to be in the same container for them to be relevant?
so you just admitted that you dont like Jason Aldean because of his whistles, which i will say i have never seen nor could find on google. and that you in fact put that comment on this thread because you just dont like him. Which has nothing to do with topic of the song being considered racist, not Jasion Aldean being Racist. which by those terms means lemmy is communist because its made by a socialist developer, which btw it is opensource which is why it is not communist based on each instance having freedom from each other.
That's not what dog whistle means:
"...Yet there's another dog whistle we've been hearing about lately: a coded message communicated through words or phrases commonly understood by a particular group of people, but not by others."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dog-whistle-political-meaning
thanks i did not know that term!
Yeah, it's kind of a metaphor for how dogs can hear a dog whistle, but people can't. Likewise, a " dog whistle " is a phrase or idea communicated where certain people pick up on the key language, and other people don't. Although with the internet now, information can be disseminated readily to everyone and then people point out that it's a dog whistle or not.
The video you are responding to by the previous poster was a critique of the original TikTok video posted by Mr Aldean. That video was posted on May 19th, prior to the official music video release from a few days ago.
Danny Collins, a former minor league pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, posted a video in which he dug into a promo of the song that Aldean posted on his own TikTok page. In that TikTok video that Aldean posted back on May 19, several images of vintage newspaper clips and headlines are used.
That original TokTok video can be viewed here:
https://www.tiktok.com/@jasonaldeanmusic/video/7234750082174848302
Edit - The full newspaper listing is here... I wish the TikToker had actually put a link in his description but here it is.
August 30, 1956 issue of the Petal Paper:
So, as you can see, this is not bullshit. Mr Aldean chose a very specific newspaper clip from a very obscure newspaper that is anti-civil rights, and pro-white. That newspaper clip was featured in a way that was very difficult to read without freezing the frame of the video, but was in his video. So ask yourself this: why would somebody feature this kind of an Easter egg in a music video?
i stand corrected, thank you for using sources instead of caveman, "im right because" i also apologize for my ignorance and commend you for using credible evidence and taking the time to prove me wrong.
You're welcome. I know, information posted on the internet is oftentimes confusing, contradictory and either incomplete or there's just a lot of false information.
I try to keep it simple and acknowledge the fact that it's difficult to understand information and to know what is the truth and what isn't the truth. Truth and honesty are a hard thing to come by these days...
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thanks for being understanding for my ignorance, im not trying to be rude or racist i just wanted to know both sides of the argument, to understand what people and news outlets are bickering about. may everyone have a nice day :D
Was your schooling so poor that you never learned about using figurative language?
we just never learned that exact phrase, or what the petal papers said. many schools are trying to take racism out of history which defeats the purpose of teaching racism is bad. so alot of units got cut by the school board because of being racist which i still dont understand because we read to kill a mocking bird, that book made me feel very uncomfortable. although i did enjoy the discussion on this thread and i got to learn alot of history. also im assuming this isnt satire or poor shaming and is an actually question. thanks
Have you heard of a sundown town? This song is about sundown towns and that is part of what the issue is.