Gene Lyons, a country music fan and former Arkansas rancher (among other things), has a spot-on column about the country song that's made news over the last week or so celebrating small towns because they are supposedly full of white guys tripping out on Oxycontin or fentanyl looking for an excuse to be vigilantes:
Merle was the best, and yes, would have no time for the absence of musicality and pointless shit-stirring of this dumbass barely-a-song.
I haven’t paid much attention--maybe because I didn’t want to think about more besmirching and racist co-option of what is, in fact, a cultural heritage, region, and way of life shared by people of all races--but I did google and found this woman’s debunking of the content of this video very funny.
As usual, they can’t even find real examples to illustrate the fantasy danger to themselves.
Merle was the best, and yes, would have no time for the absence of musicality and pointless shit-stirring of this dumbass barely-a-song.
I haven’t paid much attention--maybe because I didn’t want to think about more besmirching and racist co-option of what is, in fact, a cultural heritage, region, and way of life shared by people of all races--but I did google and found this woman’s debunking of the content of this video very funny.
As usual, they can’t even find real examples to illustrate the fantasy danger to themselves.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tiktoker-debunked-jason-aldeans-try-small-town-video-receives-racist-h-rcna95996