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In reply to the discussion: Charlie Daniels is dead. [View all]Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)25. Being a screaming homophobic racist isn't somebody's "politics."
It is LONG PAST TIME to stop excusing people's violent hatefulness with the framing "I didn't agree with his politics." It's a bullshit way to sanitize a hateful, racist heart into something more acceptable.
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His early music was good, and he was a good musician (played on Dylan albums, etc.). n/t
blitzen
Jul 2020
#8
Later in life Charlie Daniels was the result of right wing media consumption.
tenderfoot
Jul 2020
#9
Ray Wylie Hubbard to the Devil: "I thought your solo was the better of the two"...
blitzen
Jul 2020
#13
It is good that we have those so much wiser here to show us how we should think, is it not?
Tipperary
Jul 2020
#55
Him: "in the future Darwinism will be looked upon as we now look upon the flat earth theory"
USALiberal
Jul 2020
#54