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Tom Morello may be a good guitar player but he has spent so many years making “political” music that none of his fans understand – they just appreciate how loud it blasts. I’ve seen exactly ZERO Rage “fans” who know anything about what he is advocating in his music or in his personal political views.
Enjoyed your article about the hidden (or maybe not so hidden) costs of Obamacare. There are lots of problems with health care in this country, but they do not include a lack of taxes, regulations or government bureaucrats.
What a retard. Also, he’s not a very good guitar player.
Also, he’s not a very good guitar player.
Really? Most rock and guitar publications I see seem to speak favorably of Morello’s guitar playing, but I don’t read music or play any instrument so it all sounds the same to my untrained ear.
equity feminism is a pointless term coined by sommers. She has two sons iirc, that might help explain it.
The last link is just another step in the path mapped out much before all this equity feminism nonsense:
http://ozconservative.blogspot.in/2012/08/wl-george-when-male-feminist-gets-it.html
The interview with butthole tattoo girl did not make much sense but I’m not sure what I was expecting.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/08/the-racial-divide-on-sneakers/261256/
Article about sneakers and the Black community. The author doesn’t come right out and blame shoes companies for riots over sneakers, but she does say:
Once again, it all comes down to who companies are marketing to — and how they choose to treat the consumer.
I read Pinker’s Blank Slate not too long ago, thought it was a great book. His treatment of Feminism was pretty damning, but I distinctly remember being annoyed with how Pinker danced around issues of racial differences in intelligence. (Guess that’s still totally off-limits.)
The big question — We’ve known for 20+ years that Feminism / Blank Slate ideology was scientifically untrue. Why do we have to keep having this discussion? And hey, why is it that the Atheist/Liberal/Feminist/Blank Slatist crowd seems to have a stranglehold on popularly accepted ideas of “science” when their ideas are the ones that are contrary to established science?
Black Death,
thanks man.
Camlost,
Agreed, Morello is a good guitarist. I like RATM despite their politics. Truth is, they’re anarchists and I am probably more closely aligned with anarchism than big government establishment liberalism. Morello is just a sucker who has lost sight of his ideals and now favors a hack like Obama.
Reym,
I felt the same way about the book too. Loved his takedown of feminism but was dismayed that he didn’t address racial differences. Though in his defense, it is much more obvious that sex and gender differences are essential while innate racial differences aren’t quite as obvious. Humanity is what it is because of essential sex differences whereas differences between the races haven’t shaped the fundamental nature of humans. So the claim that there are no differences between the sexes is much more ludicrous than a denial of racial differences. If you’re Pinker and attacking the shibboleth of blank slatism, you’d be wise to deal with the easy stuff first – thus building up your reputation – rather than going straight for the most controversial arguments.
“The big question — We’ve known for 20+ years that Feminism / Blank Slate ideology was scientifically untrue. Why do we have to keep having this discussion?”
Because liberals only care about inequality when they can blame everything on rich white men. Any naturally occurring difference in outcomes between different populations shatters their entire worldview. They know that they’ve still got at least a couple of decades left where they can shame anyone who disagrees with them into silence by accusing them of being whatever kids of -ist. If they can’t shame them into silence, their stranglehold on the media will ensure that “controversial” opinions (i.e., opinions based on facts) about different population groups won’t reach the masses.
Soon we’ll have genetic tests that can pretty accurately predict intelligence. It seems like every other week there’s a new story about larger brains, on average, being smarter than smaller brains. Blacks have tsmaller brains, on average, than whites, who have smaller brains, on average, than east Asians. When we find out that what IQ tests have been telling us for the past 100 years is correct, no one will care. We’ll still spend endless amounts of money trying to close the black/white achievement gap.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/14/2951748/demanding-an-honest-accounting.html
So People of Color are dangerous, violent, and a threat to society? THink again after reading this excelletn Leonard Pitts column.
Give it up, Leonard Pitts is a dumbass.
How so?
He is well respected by the jouranlostic world and is a celebrated journalist novelist and pundit.
Nah, they were never anarchists by far. If anything, De La Rocha is a Bob Avakian and Zapatista fanboy to this day, while the rest were the sort of leftist stupid you see on every college campus “fill in the blank” Studies department everywhere.
The best rejoinder to Morello is “If he is against everything you stand for, then the fact he’s a fan of your work means that you didn’t do a very good job of elucidating your beliefs.”
Morello is just a common anti-white. The anarchism is just thin veneer for his hate of whites. He supported cop-killer Mumia. If he also supported Randy Weaver, you’d have a case about anarchism.
another rejoinder to RATM’s political verse is that if their music was all about politics then they’d just be spoken word artists. no need for the flair, bass, and guitar riffs that someone like Ryan (and me) enjoy about the music. from a deconstructionist standpoint, music and any art is interpreted subjectively. i’ll take the riffs and the anger but leave the specific policy proposals behind.
Leonard Pitts is respected by a lot of low IQ negroes who can’t spell “journalistic”.
Morello has been critical of Obama in the past, so he’s not a complete hack.
Can’t you get something better than WND?
clown question, bro.
Morello, like Obama, is bi-racial.
More than that, their life stories are practically identical. Like Obama, Morello is the son of a white Midwestern woman and an African father who abandoned the family when he was young to return to politics in the homeland. Morello’s mother was an ESL teacher; Obama’s was an anthropologist. Morello’s dad was a diplomat; Obama’s was a graduate student. Both fathers were from Kenya, but Obama’s was a politically connected Luo while Morello’s was a politically connected Kikuyu. (I wonder what they thought of each other…) And both Obama and Morello are Harvard graduates.
Regarding Rage’s politics, Spike has it right. They were commies of the Ethnic Studies variety, where Marxism tends to shade over into Third World ethnic nationalism. I’ve always suspected that (at least in their early days) they had closer ties than they let on to the organized far left — I remember a SPIN profile from back in the day where they recommended that the writer educate himself politically by visiting a Revolution Books (the bookstore of the Revolutionary Communist Party.) This was around the time of the Tibetan Freedom Concert, and the writer went in expecting laid-back hippie liberals, so he was frightened to find himself surrounded by old-school Stalinists who supported the PRC suppression of Tibet’s “feudal theocracy.”
Despite his politics, Morello is still the most innovative heavy rock guitarist of his generation.
One difference is that Morello’s father denied his paternity after returning to Africa.
I think Morello’s father later inherited a tea farm in Kenya and got rich. Morello was critical of that, calling his own father a beneficiary of oppression and neo-colonialism.
I’d estimate that 75% of RATM “fans” don’t even know they’re political at all. Out of the other 25%, only half have any clue what they actually advocate.
Living in college towns in NC in the 2000′s it was very common to see a RATM bumper sticker on the back of a vehicle that also had a Bush/Cheney sticker.
“We’ve known for 20+ years that Feminism / Blank Slate ideology was scientifically untrue. Why do we have to keep having this discussion?”
once you’ve blamed it on society/environment, that gives you considerable power to change it to what you want. ceteris paribus demands that sweden’s no gender-pronoun schools be replicated everywhere.
and asking for biological changes would get you labelled as a nazi rather quickly, though some feminists have done that, testosterone poisoning being an example.
“when their ideas are the ones that are contrary to established science?”
pinker debated his sister during the larry summers brouhaha. summers had to apologise, the establishment defines the science.
I used to be a really big Rage fan until I started paying attention to the lyrics 7-8 years ago. I still enjoy listening to them every now and then but I can’t handle too much regurgitated Noam Chomsky and it is, quite frankly, a pretty big turn off.
“clown question, bro.”
No snark on my part at all. Just think you’re better than that.
“Morello, like Obama, is bi-racial.”
I believe that Morello is the grand-nephew of Jomo Kenyatta, ruler of Kenya for a quarter of a century or so. His mother is quite similar to Obama’s.
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