Posted on 06/13/2020 8:11:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Never ever kowtow to the left-wing mob—ever. They don't want an apology. They want to destroy you. Period. They're an emotionally unstable and unhinged legion of troublemakers who have infiltrated almost every aspect of our society, especially cultural bastions. The woke activists who are mocked on The College Fix and Campus Reform in years past have graduated. The left-wing mob's reach has become more expansive and crazier than ever before. Remember this is the "silence is violence" crowd. Words are violence. Just a method for them to shut down free speech, which The New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer learned this past week. Top editors from both publications were scalped by this mob for printing op-eds that were "problematic." The NYT published an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) who argued the military should be deployed to quell the unrest caused by the officer-involved fatality of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The Inquirer pushed aside an editor who had been with the paper for over two decades, helped improve diversity in its newsroom, and helped them win a Pulitzer for their series on violence in Philly schools. Why was he sent to the guillotine? He printed a column called "Buildings Matter, Too."
And now country trio Lady Antebellum decided to make a preventative move to change their name to Lady A in the wake of the Floyd unrest. Political correctness is a cancer. We all know that, but the band's move was not without controversy because some blues artist who goes by that name is calling them out, slamming their decision as one grounded in…privilege (via Rolling Stone):
You can bend a knee to the mob, but they'll still eat you. Every. Single Time.
This is delicious. https://t.co/4KHyoKlXDK— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) June 12, 2020
Seattle blues singer Lady A had just gotten off of work on Thursday when a bombardment of phone messages from friends, fans and producers came in all shouting the same thing: Her name had been stolen.
Earlier that day, Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum — whose name had been criticized for its associations with romanticized ideas of the pre-war, slavery-ridden American South — announced they were changing their name to Lady A in light of a heightened national conversation about racism. Lady Antebellum made the changes swiftly on social media and distribution platforms including Spotify and Apple Music, and the group’s website also announced their rechristening as Lady A. But according to Seattle’s Lady A, neither the band nor any members of their team reached out to her before making the change.
This Lady A — a 61-year-old black woman whose real name is Anita White — has been playing the blues under the name for more than 20 years. She began singing as a gospel performer at church and started going by Lady A for karaoke nights in the Eighties. She’s released multiple albums with the name, and on top of her day job working with Seattle Public Utilities, she’s gearing up to release another album, Lady A: Live in New Orleans, on her birthday on July 18th.
White tells Rolling Stone she’s frustrated that Lady Antebellum hadn’t gone to her before making a decision, pointing out the irony in changing a name in support of racial equality while simultaneously taking another one from a black performer. “This is my life. Lady A is my brand, I’ve used it for over 20 years, and I’m proud of what I’ve done,” she says, her voice breaking. “This is too much right now. They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time. If it mattered, it would have mattered to them before. It shouldn’t have taken George Floyd to die for them to realize that their name had a slave reference to it.
Well, that's it. Lady A, the white version, is canceled. They didn't need to change their name. Have the Dixie Chicks done the same? I don't think so—and they're as lefty as they come. Lady Antebellum tried to "be woke" and got decapitated anyway. Looking down the barrel of the political correctness gun is both stupid and unnecessary. Those who go out of their way to assimilate to this insane ethos usually end up with buckshot to the face. Lady Antebellum is just the most recent victim.
Take your medicine, cowards.
Ask the Dixie Chicks
I wouldn’t know a Lady Antebellum song if it fell out of the sky and hit me on the head.
virtue signaling systemic dumbassery.
Shows why country music from the 1950s thru the early ‘90s (before Garth, Billy Ray, and Shania) was not only so much better, but timeless as well particularly many of the women artists from that time.
The next Dixie Chicks.
I’m guessing many Country Radio Stations will drop them from rotation.
The listeners of these country stations will not be amused by Lady A
bowing to the BLM movement.
Garth Brooks killed country music.
At least the Dixie Chicks still have the “Dixie”, for now.
RE: The listeners of these country stations will not be amused by Lady A
Which Lady A? The Country Trio or the Blues Singer?
And the Left hate country music anyway.
Neither would I.
But I WOULD recognize Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Brahms...and maybe even Tchaikovsky.
No. Wait. I think. I think that's taken, too.
Mrs. Butterworth's maybe? No.
Oh, I know. Miss Prissy. No. Taken.
I’m thinking of officially changing my name to Confederate Flag Columbus.
Got to keep some Italian aspect to it.
They could completely change their name and call themselves “The folding b**ches”
Too bad because some of their stuff is pretty good;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM213aMKTHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFj2t9d7Z8
You can not please the left simply because there is no single ideology of the “left”. What we call the left is made up of thousands of special interest groups that share only one thing in common, CONSERVATIVE AMERICA is evil and should be destroyed.
Trying to please the left is like walking blindfold through a mine field where there are millions of mines.
No matter how much you twist yourself to please the feminist the homosexuals the socialist the minorities the communist the environmentalist and so on... you can not safely make it from point a to point b.
Why, because each of these special interest groups have their own agenda, and these agendas are often 180 degree different then the next special interest group.
Your attempt to please one group only gets you in trouble with another.
No matter how many brownie points you may have, you lose them all with one misstep. Look at JR Rowling as an example .
So set your moral compass and don’t try to pander to the haters, you lose if you do.
The Left wants one thing....REVOLUTION!
I have SiriusXM Satellite Radio. When I am not listening to the Patriot Station, I am tuned in to one of several country music stations. When the Dixie Chicks play, I change the station. And now when Lady Antebellum plays, I will change the station. Unlike broadcast radio, which relies upon surveys to count the listening audience, SiriusXM counts listeners in real time, and so if enough of us tune out liberal PC scum, they will get the messsage.
Morale of the story , do not expect a chick in an art environment to carry a dck...
The feminine which gets to be the dominant “gene” in arts and not the masculine one will do everything to accomodate and avoid confrontation. Drugs is the prudent thing for them
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