Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/10/covid-unbeatable-and-vaccines-wont-work-in-this-weeks-optimistic-tabloids.html
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An especially heinous example of why we should stop doing these.
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Clapton may have been a racist 44 years ago, but it’s not like he ever stopped. He continues to make statements that are racist, anti-semitic, anti-Muslim, anti-foreigner. Big time supporter of Brexit and Boris Johnson.
He’s basically the British Kid Rock.
I mean, I’m still not going to change the station when he comes on the BB King Blues channel tho…
He’s amazingly creative, but also a terrible human being. Not the first one like that, sadly.
I think it’s a bit strange when racist people adopt and adapt music from other cultures or other races, and in nearly the same breath condemn those races. It’s cultural appropriation at its worst, in that it denies the originators of Blues and Rock their due credit.
Oh what great entertainment! Of course I also enjoy licking doorknobs and getting kicked in the head!
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