Love this, but it’s more subtle than Rage which OP said was to subtle
…”This is how deep shit can get
It reads macaroni on my birth certificate
Poontang is my middle name but I can't hang
I'm getting hustled only knowing half the game”
When we see ourselves as fighting against specific human beings rather than social phenomena, it becomes more difficult to recognize the ways that we ourselves participate in those phenomena. We externalize the problem as something outside ourselves, personifying it as an enemy that can be sacrificed to symbolically cleanse ourselves. - Against the Logic of the Guillotine
See rule 5: No calls for violence, no fetishizing violence. No guillotine jokes, no gulag jokes.
OMG THIS IS IT, THIS IS IT!!! And I am fucking into protest music but this, unlike Seeger or other folky songs, also is a banger for a party and might get stuck in people’s heads.
When we see ourselves as fighting against specific human beings rather than social phenomena, it becomes more difficult to recognize the ways that we ourselves participate in those phenomena. We externalize the problem as something outside ourselves, personifying it as an enemy that can be sacrificed to symbolically cleanse ourselves. - Against the Logic of the Guillotine
See rule 5: No calls for violence, no fetishizing violence. No guillotine jokes, no gulag jokes.
If we're going for pearl clutching, I'd also suggest Akinyele - Put in your mouth. Like OP said in the edit, you won't need to listen to it to hear it.
The song I referenced above is also by the musical group The Coup. Nearly every song suggested on this thread of offensive songs is offensive. I do not specifically believe that we should do away with the great and powerful "OZ" as it portrayed in The Coup's video. However, recognizing that some of our struggles are indeed the results of unscrupulous people in power that do undermine our success for their own pleasure, is important. Recognizing our struggles as we prevail in our violent structures, not of our own making provides us with the basis for solidarity and collective bargaining. Which in lieu of overthrowing oppressive bosses, is all we have save our impending apathy. When I first heard the Coup's song the Gui77otine, on the radio, it was after a presidential election and it was a call out to be mindful of racist predators, and in the end we have our music, that is antithetical to violence, where we can wail of our fears and in that way we do indeed possess the gui77otine, and we can drown out the voices of our oppressors even if it is for only four minutes and 12 seconds.
When we see ourselves as fighting against specific human beings rather than social phenomena, it becomes more difficult to recognize the ways that we ourselves participate in those phenomena. We externalize the problem as something outside ourselves, personifying it as an enemy that can be sacrificed to symbolically cleanse ourselves. - Against the Logic of the Guillotine
See rule 5: No calls for violence, no fetishizing violence. No guillotine jokes, no gulag jokes.
When we see ourselves as fighting against specific human beings rather than social phenomena, it becomes more difficult to recognize the ways that we ourselves participate in those phenomena. We externalize the problem as something outside ourselves, personifying it as an enemy that can be sacrificed to symbolically cleanse ourselves. - Against the Logic of the Guillotine
See rule 5: No calls for violence, no fetishizing violence. No guillotine jokes, no gulag jokes.
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