Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry
thesmokingman@programming.dev 1 year ago
If there is an argument to be made here, it’s whether or not the song calls for intolerance à la the paradox of tolerance. There’s plenty of pornogrind, slam, and other brutal death metal on Spotify that’s thematically horrific. While the subject is definitely about really sadistic shit, there’s no overt message to go out and do that or that there are classes of people that deserve that. If this is just bullshit biblical propaganda, whatever, slam is gnarlier than Lot’s daughters. If this is advocating for the removal of a class of people, it might be warranted.
I didn’t read or search for the lyrics because fuck driving traffic to this garbage.
wsweg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, there’s plenty of songs about murder/gang shit that is serious and encouraging it
JonEFive@midwest.social 1 year ago
Hmm… You know, every argument I can come up with about why that might be okay could be just as easily applied by the trans-phobes.
“Well maybe we need to consider whether people might actually act on it”. Well, in the case of gangs, they definitely do. Gang violence is as bad as ever. Meanwhile, I suspect this antitrans song will provoke far less action than some diss tracks.
“Yeah but it’s somewhat of a cultural thing, if we take it away from them it’s going to start a whole big thing”… Black inner city culture / white country boy culture… They’ll both react the same way.
Is it just the quantity of it? There’s more gang rap so it’s become normalized? Well that doesn’t bode well for what we can expect from these country folk.
Seriously, I can’t think of a good reason why gang rap that encourages violence should be allowed while this isn’t.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably the ol’ prejudice+poweroo