>>>Reminds me a bit of controversy, over a song by Dire Straits, in which the word “faggot” is mentioned. As I recall, radio stations nowadays were censoring the offending word, if they even played that song at all<<<
They take out the entire verse:
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup?
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he’s a millionaire
Remember when Ted Turner started to “colorize” old Black and White Movies? The screaming from the Artistic License crowd was deafening.
Guns and Roses....
“Immigrants and fagots
They make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they’ll do as they please
Like start some mini-Iran
Or spread some f*cking disease
And they talk so many God damn ways
It’s all Greek to me”
“See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup?
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he’s a millionaire”
I get an earwig of that verse every time I see Shep Smith, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, etc.