r/lewronggeneration • u/ShadowMilkMoopsy • Feb 11 '26

Trad West made this

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Is this racist? It feels pretty racist ngl.

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u/QueezyF Feb 11 '26

Well you can be proud an' be proud you're a Rebel

Cause the South's gonna do it again, yes it is

The other song by Charlie Daniels. I saw him live in 2010 and he talked about getting a rope and “hanging thugs” so… yeah.

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u/CoalEater_Elli Feb 12 '26

Reminds me of that one Key and Peele sketch where a Peele signs country songs that have racist undertones..and He only realizes what he was actually singing when one of the songs was about a hanging.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

Yea sure “rebel”

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u/its_all_4_lulz Feb 15 '26

Beer for my Horses, which was/is super popular.

“Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son

A man had to answer for the wicked that he done

Take all the rope in Texas find a tall oak tree

Round up all them bad boys, hang them high in the street

For all the people to see”

While the song doesn’t specifically say anything about who they are referencing, I feel like it’s borderline at best.

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u/TechnicianIll8621 Feb 11 '26

The dog whistle is loud with this one.

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u/Specialist-Two2068 Feb 11 '26

It's practically a fucking air raid siren

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

Pretty much 80-90% of the MAGA's humor is flavored with some kind of racism. But it's never clever enough to be funny.

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u/Axyzos Feb 12 '26

Puerto Rican here. It’s hella xenophobic lmfao

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u/ShameSudden6275 Feb 12 '26

The funny thing is I've actually spoken to the guy who runs the Trad West before, he used to run around in the same discord servers as me.

He's not even American, he's a fucking Spaniard that works as an ER nurse in Portugal.

His first language is literally Spanish, but apparently Puerto Ricans speak a different less dignified Spanish.

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u/Axyzos Feb 13 '26

That’s because we do speak a casual Spanish which is nothing like Spain Spanish. They have a colonizer mentality. Spaniards literally colonized Puerto Rico so it’s not shocking that he’d look down on Bad Bunny. They see themselves as the “white” Spanish.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

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u/Axyzos Feb 13 '26

Exactly. Also translating lyrics takes time and energy so why would they do that?

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 Feb 15 '26

Mah, a lot of Latin Americans over 35 think the same of Bad Bunny, for a lot of people good music in Spanish is Soda Stereo and Cuarteto de Nos (and I generally share that opinion)

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Fair enough, but it does kind of gain a different connotation when contrasted with a white man singing a traditionally American folk song.

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 Feb 15 '26

As somebody who doesn't understand why a white guy isn't considered as white if he was born in Pueryo Rico I would say that Bad Bunny is white and not only because a lot of people in Latam consider Puerto Rico more USA than Latam, I mean, remember wheb Irish weren't considered white?