Posted on 06/16/2021 7:32:36 AM PDT by lowbridge
Until last year, Daniel Elder—a 34-year-old musician who lives in Nashville, Tennessee—had a promising career ahead of him. The theme of the prize-winning composer's work, truth through emotion, is evident across his catalogue of choral music, including his debut commercial album, The Heart's Reflection.
Elder isn't composing very much these days. And even if he were, no one in the industry is willing to buy his work. His publisher has blackballed him. Local choral directors refuse to program his music for fear of provoking a backlash. They won't even let him sing in the choir.
"My artistic wellspring is capped," says Elder. "I think it will come back, but things have remained in quite a rough place after all this happened."
What happened? Elder made a short statement on Instagram that went viral during the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020.
The young composer is hardly the first person to suffer significant professional consequences after causing a social media firestorm: Virtually every day brings more examples of people saying slightly offensive things that stoke the fury of some mob.
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But even among those cancel-culture excesses, Elder's supposed transgression stands out as particularly absurd. Though he was tarred and feathered as a racist contrarian, the Instagram post that caused all the trouble was neither racist nor contrarian. An overwhelming majority of people likely agree with the sentiment behind it, which was basically this: Arson is bad.
Elder always considered himself a man of the center-left. He was not particularly political or outspoken, but he supported liberal causes, including police reform and opposition to racism. The fact that he was on the same side as the progressive activists "made this sort of a strange betrayal," he says.
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The new McCarthyism.
Elder always considered himself a man of the center-left.
He wasn’t paying attention and it bit him hard on the ass.
We’re headed for a French Revolution redux.
I hope he now considers the danger of hanging around with lynch mobs.
There is still a market for smart people; even smart artists.
He needs to wise up.
The time is coming when reporting rape will be considered racist, and charged as a hate crime.
"Center left"? WTF is that? He has no core, he's just plain stupid.
Try to impress everyone and no one is impressed.
Arson is bad...who knew?
But have no fear, he will still vote Democrat no matter how bad he gets treated.
Is this an example of “blacklash?”
When the article tries to equate President Trump and Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, with Andrew Cuomo, the bias is glaringly obvious.
...but he supported liberal causes, including police reform and opposition to racism.
Liberal causes are eliminating police and promoting racism.
Why would the author not know that?
I didn’t realize opposing Racism was a Liberal cause.
I do know that ONE WAY Racism is a Liberal cause.
Rioters, looters & arsonists should be shot on sight.
“The time is coming when reporting rape will be considered racist, and charged as a hate crime”
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You’re a bit behind the times.
A group is already putting out that if a white woman is raped by a black and reports it she is contributing to the racist agenda.
Cannot recall the group. I think there’s an article on FR about it....
Center left huh?
Enjoy the suck.
The guy helped build it.
Right here: UK Charity Teaches Staff ‘White Women Reporting Rape By Black Men Support White Supremacy’.
More like Stalinism. Prokofiev and Shostakovich not only had their music cancelled, but were almost put to death.
This is what the left is building to. This is what this songwriter helped build thus far.
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Thank you, Ken in Texas-!
Wasn’t sure under which title it was placed.
He still has a youtube channel if anyone wants to subscribe. I listened to a little of his music and can’t say I was excited about it. However, I still subscribed to his channel. I can’t stand seeing anyone canceled for speaking a little bit of truth.
If that happens to one of my kids, I will not worry about the race of the offender.
I read that. It was a trial balloon. If it works, you will see sexual assault of all kinds decriminalized.
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