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New York Times Thought Police Ask: Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?
Breitbart ^ | 4 Nov 2021 | DAVID NG

Posted on 11/05/2021 6:20:57 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Hide your classic rock LP’s. The thought police at the New York Times are coming for them.

The New York Times opinion section has run a column advocating for classic rock songs like Don McLean’s “American Pie” to be reconsidered and maybe even “toppled” like historic Confederate statues, arguing that reevaluating beloved songs will help create a world that is “inclusive and more just.”

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Ok how about rap lyrics.
1 posted on 11/05/2021 6:20:57 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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American Pie uses the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost irreverently, but you don’t see Christians wanting to cancel that overrated song.


2 posted on 11/05/2021 6:25:05 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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3 posted on 11/05/2021 6:25:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s one thing after another.

It never ends with these crazies.


4 posted on 11/05/2021 6:25:35 AM PDT by Starboard
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“And the colored girls said do, do dadooo do do dadooo, do do do dadoo’


5 posted on 11/05/2021 6:26:50 AM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR)
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Could we please topple the NYTimes for its knowing, Pulitzer-winning coverup of Stalin’s murderous crimes throughout his regime?


6 posted on 11/05/2021 6:27:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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We are supposed to listen to some mentally ill man who thinks that he is a woman? Right.... In any case, why does some fool like “it” receive any attention at all? Who gives a f what it thinks?


7 posted on 11/05/2021 6:28:16 AM PDT by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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PLEASE DELETE RAP,

AND POP UP VIDEO ADS, MY HEARING AIDS HATE THEM.


8 posted on 11/05/2021 6:29:19 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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yeah classic rock sucks after the 1000th time hearing the song ..


9 posted on 11/05/2021 6:29:26 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> ☼ << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if s/he's white?")
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, who is a male-to-female transgender, laid out the case in the op-ed titled “Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?”

Who care what this freak thinks?

10 posted on 11/05/2021 6:29:39 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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Wow, I thought I was a troublemaker in second grade.


11 posted on 11/05/2021 6:29:55 AM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR)
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“I fell in love with a slit-eyed lady”

Rod Stewart


12 posted on 11/05/2021 6:29:57 AM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: artichokegrower

Ten Years After- I’D Love To Change The world.

Everywhere is
Freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me, where is sanity?

Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are no
Rich no more


13 posted on 11/05/2021 6:30:04 AM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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For more commentary on this:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4009906/posts

You must have been to busy with the crops and missed it. LOL!


14 posted on 11/05/2021 6:31:45 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Looks like they’re targeting Southern Rock. Racist.


15 posted on 11/05/2021 6:33:06 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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I don’t know who sang Baby Shark but I would not object if it was cancelled


16 posted on 11/05/2021 6:33:13 AM PDT by chuckee ( from front pages)
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RAM JAM — Black Betty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2D8Eo15wE


17 posted on 11/05/2021 6:33:40 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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Obviously this dillweed has WAY too much time on his grubby paws.


18 posted on 11/05/2021 6:34:49 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Kenny500c
Slant-eyed lady...
Caught a ride on an Eastern moon
Shanghai Lil never used the pill...
She claimed that it just wasn't natural...
19 posted on 11/05/2021 6:35:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: CletusVanDamme

I see my Mary Ann walking away....


20 posted on 11/05/2021 6:36:05 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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