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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Who would have thought that country music, which originated in the South, would be so receptive to white nationalism??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Pre-9/11 and Toby Keith a lot of country music was anti-establishment and anti-fascist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Some, but for every Phil Ochs there was a Marty Robbins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Or even outright anarchist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say, I don't think metal has a higher rate of nazis. You look at country and you basically have to accept they're all MAGAts (another reason to just avoid country). I think most people in metal are pretty progressive, that's why they're in metal. Honestly Dero Goi is a great example: he jumped down a conservative rabbit hole and left metal.

If anything, it's just that the nazis are always a vocal minority and when they're into metal it's some confirmation bias for close minded people who don't like metal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No, the issue is that metal has a lot of iconography which outright attracts Nazis and the like (e.g. heavy use of crosses, mentions of war and sometimes glorification of ancestry, viking culture, classically western icons like medieval knights and the Crusades, etc).

We have to push really hard against their co-opting of our symbols if we don't want "Skinheads: Metalic Boogaloo" to become a thing.