From Sharia Laws to white supremacy, what do you with bad politics. I’ve had the opportunity to listen to white supremacy hard core bands on occassion and have pretty impressed with some of them. Unlike the UK “Oi” movement which was uniformly terrible and therefore easy to dismiss out of hands, a band like Empire Falls is the real deal.
Empire Falls sentiments are fairly terrible but they aren’t the worst I’ve heard: “have you ever been kicked in the teeth for standing up for what you believe, who dares wins” is not an untypical rah rah for the race riots. But it is a powerful anthem. Before we start condemning art because it’s sentiments are unconscionably terrible, let’s burn Ezra Pounds poetry and Leni Riefenstahl’s movies.
When you begin to censor art due to content, where do you end?
Some of the bands on the racist record distribution Micetrap are just terrible “Freezer Full Of N—-r Heads” (in this context I can’t type the word) is a not untypical song title but there is a million miles between singing something and doing something.
Empire Falls songs are hardcore singalong anthems and a blast. The band members themselves are scum of the earth.