When artists are confronted with speech they don’t approve of …
Artists in Burlington were quick to respond after Trump’s campaign announced New Year’s Eve that he would appear Thursday at the Flynn. Many who posted on Facebook expressed dismay that the candidate whose controversial positions include a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States is coming to their community that’s known for its all-inclusive views. […]
Artists also favor free speech and free expression. Trump’s visit to Burlington has forced many artists to evaluate their positions on what they see as free speech vs. hate speech.
“This is not for me a First Amendment issue,” said Nelson, the singer who grew up in the Burlington area and now splits her time between the Champlain and Connecticut River valleys. “This is an ethical issue related to how we protect and serve our community from threat and potential danger.”
Note these fascists in skinny jeans never tell you specifically the threat or what form the danger takes … just that their definition of “all-inclusive views” is “all-inclusive to views we agree with.”
Whether you like him or loathe him, the idea of Trump as being dangerous to the artists of Burlington is limited to the possibility some non-Burlington residents who attend his appearance may actually carry plastic bottles of water.
Oh.The.Horror.
Apparently they’re afraid Trump’s audience is like the Deadheads — only less hip and better armed.
The idea of outsiders invading their community, all wearing orange toupees and casually firing anybody that looks at them funny, frightens them.
A few thousand rootless young Muslim men who think any woman not in a burqa is just begging to be raped for the glory of Allah, on the other hand? Why, they’re just foreigners with ways different from our own. Perhaps they may do some more… folk dancing!
Bernie’s ground zero. Expect disruptions and fireworks.
Young-Old Socialists for Socialized Justice will be there I have no doubt. Will the bring their BLM-CAIR comrades?
Greetings:
That “skinny jeans” reference was a bit of a nano-aggression. Back in the ’70s, some of the then terminally hip, including a Deadheadess whom I was trying to extract from the cult and was seriously interested in in I believe you know what way, started rolling up the bottoms of their jeans, especially those Lee Riders afficionados, which soon caused a market disruption in which the midgets of those times started buying up the inseam sizes meant for the full-growed types just they could sport a lighter shade of indigo. Those types never learn.