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Well those are massively solid talking points, Lyve science' as well. It is pretty weird he painted the whole of white america as basically alt-righters or what (the comparatively small percentage of) usually southern redneck types portray themselves as- or at the /very least/ painted the whole of trump supporters as such. Which if you think about it isn't really out of left field as far as low hanging fruit liberal drivel is concerned, its basically just identity politics on a beat. I guess initially I was hearing it from a more surface level joyner fan type perspective judging it as an all around solid concept but honestly if an artist is going far enough to create a scenario with two opposing sides they should at least represent them both fairly & accurately..
But it'd be fine if a white person did a song like this and used a stupid thug drug dealing gang banger as the black guy because of "identity politics" and "low hanging fruit"?

The MAGA hat is the icing on the cake. Many of people who have that opinion couldn't give a fuck about politics.
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Well those are massively solid talking points, Lyve science' as well. It is pretty weird he painted the whole of white america as basically alt-righters or what (the comparatively small percentage of) usually southern redneck types portray themselves as- or at the /very least/ painted the whole of trump supporters as such. Which if you think about it isn't really out of left field as far as low hanging fruit liberal drivel is concerned, its basically just identity politics on a beat. I guess initially I was hearing it from a more surface level joyner fan type perspective judging it as an all around solid concept but honestly if an artist is going far enough to create a scenario with two opposing sides they should at least represent them both fairly & accurately..
But it'd be fine if a white person did a song like this and used a stupid thug drug dealing gang banger as the black guy because of "identity politics" and "low hanging fruit"?

The MAGA hat is the icing on the cake. Many of people who have that opinion couldn't give a fuck about politics.
 
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