Posted on 01/30/2022 6:50:27 PM PST by NoLibZone
Leftists who rallied behind behind legendary rock and roller Neil Young after his ultimatum to Spotify to cancel Joe Rogan and his immensely popular podcast or he would pull his music from the streaming service may have been singing a different tune if they were aware of his past homophobia.
While the septuagenarian rocker who flipped sides from opposing “the man” during the turbulent 1960s to becoming a protector of an abusive government in his old age came up with the short end of the stick when Spotify sided with Rogan, the damage to his image with those who sided with him may have taken an even bigger hit after incendiary remarks from a 1985 interview were dug up and given new life on social media.
In the interview with Melody Maker magazine during the height of the AIDS crisis, Young spoke favorably of then-President Ronald Reagan and blamed homosexuals for the spread of the disease, invoking an anti-gay slur while remarking, “You go to a supermarket and you see a f*ggot behind the f**in’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”
Young’s inflammatory statement was revisited in a 2013 Rolling Stone article about rockers who have “betrayed their fanbase” including Bob Dylan who the magazine accused of preaching “radical Christianity,” Willie Nelson who “supported 9/11 conspiracy theories” and the “King of Pop” Michael Jackson who denied “child molestation charges but admits to sleeping with young boys.”
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is joe a homo? who cares?
Leftists do not care about that at all. Why do you imagine they do?
Oh. You think they have "homophobia" as one of their issues?
The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.
^^^^^^^^
Always!
A maid, a man needs a maid
Neil Young - 1972
Welfare Mothers
Neil Young
on Apple Music
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Welfare mothers make better lovers
People, pick up on what I’m puttin’ down now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Down at every laundromat in town now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
While they’re washin’ you can hear this sound now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Divorcee
Hard to believe that love is free now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Out on the street with the whole family now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Hard to believe that love is free now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Divorcee
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Welfare mothers make better lovers
People, pick up on what I’m puttin’ down now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Down in every laundromat in town now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
While they’re washin’ you can hear this sound now
Welfare mothers make better lovers
Divorcee
He’s not Neil Young.
He’s Neil Old.
So conservatives dumpster dive from 40 years ago to figure out who a homophobe is now, great. The political right is so damn obsessed with pointing at the left and calling them hypocrites that they end up aiding in pushing the Overton window the left’s way.
Every past sin committed by a liberal is forgiven. Example: Back in 2000 Hillary Clinton came out strongly against gay marriage. So what? All is forgiven!
On the other hand, if a conservative should say something non-PC when he was five, that remark will dog him for the rest of his life.
I hear the laurel canyon is full of stars, well I hate them more than lepers and kill them in their cars..
amen, its beyond crazy
I still don’t want fags handling my tators and just check myself out like the libtard’s buddy young would 🤪
Exactly how many people want Joe Rogan cancelled? How many actual totalitarians are there? I really wonder. I don’t think it is a huge number.
Exactly. But when we point out that they are hypocrites every day, we win!!
all the guy did was disagree with joe rogan and pull his music from spotify.
cant understand the hate here
Four dead in Oh High Oh.
I think many musicians are doing it for free publicity.
They’re just retarded whores...
He didn’t even disagree with Rogan. He objected to Rogan daring to interview Dr. Robert Malone, who, I’ll wager, NY has never listened to at all.
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