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Neil Young has certainly exercised his free speech privilege before: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/17/popandrock.neilyoung https://www.theguardian
by vnlpaper 5y ago
Neil Young has certainly exercised his free speech privilege before:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/17/popandrock.neilyoung https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/17/popandrock.nei...
Politically-speaking, its hard to exorcise the ghost of his 1980s pronouncements, when he swung hard-right behind the Reagan presidency and lashed out at gays ("you go to the supermarket and you see a [censored] behind the fucking cash register, you don't want him to handle your potatoes") and welfare spongers. "Stop being supported by the government and get out and work," Neil advised. "You have to make the weak stand up on one leg, or half a leg, whatever they've got."
- pseudalopex 5y agoHis views changed in 37 years apparently.[1] [1] https://www.bad-news-beat.org/2015neil-young-supports-love https://www.bad-news-beat.org/2015neil-young-supports-love
- manuelabeledo 5y agoSo has Rogan. What's your point, anyway.
- fblqa 5y agoI'd say that the lesson is that most people make immensely stupid statements at times, and when you sit in a glass house you should not throw with stones. The other lesson is that some people are selectively punished and canceled for three stupid statements during their lifetime, while others (like Biden) are not.
- jancsika 5y agoIt's a worthwhile article to read for sure. But I can get past your troll-of-a-term "free speech privilege." It's as if you are attempting to downgrade the principle of freedom of speech to limit it to describing an annoying pattern of rich guys mouthing off. (And completing the example from the "other rich guy" in this instance.) What's the upshot here? Are you a staunch supporter of freedom of speech or not? I can't tell at all from your comment nor from the text of the article (which is merely a review of Neil Young's output).