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aliterati t1_iyq48fb wrote

Reply to comment by Indercarnive in Who said it: Kanye or Hitler (from 2009 - Garfunkel and Oats) by BrainOnLoan

This is a privilege??

Being able to absolutely destroy you're entire life within a matter of days while literally no one does a single thing to help you, just using you as fodder for their own case du jour - that's a privilege?

If he was a woman someone would have tried to step in, put him in a conservatorship and help him. But because he's a black man - it's fine to let him destroy his life until he eventually kills himself. We'll just all watch it happen.

If anything, that's vagina privilege.

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SpinCharm t1_iyoymih wrote

Reply to Instead of miming a track, The Doobie Brothers played “What A Fool Believes” live for the song’s music video, reproducing the sound of the studio track with remarkable accuracy. by downwarddawg

The live version is similar, yes, but it’s instantly and constantly recognizable as different than the album version.

I love that the musicians are focused on quality of sound, not performance. You can see them being themselves rather than staging.

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BrainOnLoan OP t1_iyojpe3 wrote

Reply to comment by nobodywithanotepad in Who said it: Kanye or Hitler (from 2009 - Garfunkel and Oats) by BrainOnLoan

It wasn't meant to be a serious attack on his political positions back then.

It was a skit poking fun at his tendency to make grandiose and self-centered statements.

Noone actually thought in 2009 that he held right-wing political positions. That made the skit possible because neither the two artists nor fans were thinking it insuated Nazi ideology.

It was just clean fun mocking his vague narcissistic bullshit.

The added irony is only perceived from the future. The perceived accusation (then without substance) wasn't actually implied back then, it was too outlandish.

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HarryHacker42 t1_iyod4fu wrote

Reply to comment by nobodywithanotepad in Who said it: Kanye or Hitler (from 2009 - Garfunkel and Oats) by BrainOnLoan

I'll agree with that. The 2009 skit is vague enough that it really isn't funny in itself. It is because of where we ended up that it has any meaning.

I wouldn't call expressing disgust at Kanye's comments as "lazy virtue signaling" but more "disgust with Kanye's comments". We see over and over the hatred spread online turns into real life violence.

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