Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry

• 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.

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  • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably the ol’ prejudice+poweroo

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