Prioleau Alexander: Refuting Simp Scorn For ‘Small Town’
Country music has often been described as “three chords and the truth.” That’s certainly the case with Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town.”
Country music has often been described as “three chords and the truth.” That’s certainly the case with Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town.”
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My favorite part of this saga for dumb MAGA types was when whoever makes videos for this fellow had to edit the parts out that showed demonstrations in other countries, because the whole “song” is about imaginary fear-mongering for ignorant deplorables.
It is funny to see the snowflake who typed up this silliness so triggered because someone correctly pointed out how dumb the lyrics are.
Lowest common denominator pop music for lames.
“Good luck finding a jury in a South Carolina that would unanimously convict me.”
Things lynchers used to say for $800, Alex.
First, there is no concept of “fighting words” in the law. I agree with you that Americans have a right to free speech but not from the consequences of that speech. So long as the speech is not criminal and the consequences are not criminal. Criminal speech is very rare, inciting a riot, fomenting insurrection, threatening a person with violence if he does or does not do something, threatening violence against persons for fulfilling their duties under the law, yelling fire in a crowded building, and threatening violence against persons for exercising their right to legal free speech.
Likewise, illegal consequences of free speech should be rare, but in today’s world are far less so. Boycotts are legal, publically, and strongly disagreeing with a person is legal. But physically attacking a person for exercising his free speech rights is not legal, threatening to kill someone for his legal free speech is not legal, arresting people for legal free speech is not legal, and we as a nation should prosecute that to the fullest extent of the law. This is un-American to the core. It is in the end fascism. A concept so repulsive to the American ideal, that more Americans have given their lives defeating it than any other concept in history; except slavery.
I don’t give a crap about this guy’s song. It is obviously offensive to a lot of people, and I understand why. But it’s legal speech, so I am ok with publishing it and performing it. Likewise, I am ok with people saying they are offended, boycotting his records, record companies boycotting him; people saying they like the song, because those are legal consequences. I am equally ok with buying his records to show support. It’s all good. Though I don’t agree that the reference to his grandfather’s gun was not a veiled threat to kill someone; it does not rise to the level of a crime. I always find it amusing that the right created cancel culture and always bitches about it; when it’s turned on them; but it is in the end just a legal consequence of legal speech.
All significant protests are going to have legal and illegal actors. In the case of the BLM protests during the Trump years, there were people appropriately exercising their right to free speech and others who took advantage of the protests to burn, loot, and incite a riot. The peaceful protesters should be left alone and the looters should be prosecuted. In fact, nationwide there have been over 10,000 arrests associated with the BLM protests and if those persons are found guilty of illegal action I hope they go to prison. I feel the same way about January 6. There were peaceful protesters who stayed behind the police lines and there were insurrectionists who attacked our capitol and planned to kill the Vice President, Senators, and Representatives in an attempt to install Trump as President by force. Those who entered the Capitol should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Ashley Babbitt is the only person responsible for her death. She was trying to force her way into a barricaded area where members of the House were being evacuated. The police were charged with holding that area and defending the lives of those House members. They had every right to believe that had she or any other members of the mob breached the doors the lives of the House Members were at risk. She ignored warnings and died as a consequence. I have no doubt you would have applauded the officer if he had been defending Trump from a BLM protester at the White House who did the same thing. What if you were defending the Embassy in Iraq, which was being attacked by radical jehadists? Would you shoot them if they broke down the gate or wait to see if they were armed?
You appear or want to appear to be a profoundly violent man with dreams of beating up or killing people who disagree with you politically. You seem to want a list of things that will allow you to take the law into your own hands; such as a “sacred” exception to free speech protection. Does that mean that Muslims are justified in attacking Christians for making statements about the Koran, they find offensive to their religious text? If you want to attack and injure or kill someone for legal speech that you do not agree with, no one can prevent you from doing so, but I hope you will be jailed for doing so. That is the police doing their job.
Thoughtful and on point. One of Sawyer’s more glaring errors in his diatribe was the mention of “George Floyd’s murder” which is a fallacy. There was no murder. In videos of his arrest, Floyd clearly stated on multiple occasions that he couldn’t breath long before Chauvin subdued him. While a knee on a neck is a terrible look, his death was clearly caused from a self inflicted overdose of fentanyl.