• eatmyass [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    They’re dogwhistles. The parts about “the obese milkin welfare” and “taxes not ought to pay for your bags of fudge rounds.” Literally just Reagan era welfare queen rhetoric. If you don’t recognize those as racist dogwhistles you’ve been living under a rock for at least 40 years.

    But even if you don’t see the dogwhistles I hope you can understand how the song is punching down on poor people

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Unlike you, with dad’s boat dealership and the hard work you’ve done minding your manners and doing chores so you get the boat dealership someday! bootlicker

        • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          He’s literally singing about being part of a downtrodden underclass, but you and your juvenile half-formed political ideology make it all seem so simple. White skin = oppressor, right?

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            1 year ago

            He’s not part of any downtrodden underclass, and he’s singing extremely basic and uncreative lyrics that make gestures towards working class issues while barely touching on any of those issues, all the while making sure to punch down on the “wrong” poor people. It’s petit bourgeois attitudes wrapped in redneck aesthetics made for comfortable middle class folk who feel “downtrodden” because taxes exist, welfare exists, and there are people who are richer than them. There is no solidarity with the actual working class. There are only aesthetic gestures made towards the working class so these middle class folk can delude themselves into believing they’re the salt of the earth and the backbone of the USA.

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            He’s literally singing about being part of a downtrodden underclass,

            He’s literally stealing valor to pander to poor people, and a specific subset given the “welfare queen” rhetoric.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                1 year ago

                insane

                You apparently believe anyone who disagrees with you is mentally ill which by your presented context means they are loathsome and deserving of hatred because you don’t like them and like to call people you don’t like insane.

                In other words, you’re an ableist hateful piece of shit. Get flushed.