music

"This white guy is appropriating a black genre!" sing-sneers white guy in the same genre. This is the left-lib equivalent of when Steven Segal says "get your white ass out of here," and even for "folk artist semi-musically ranting" this is bizarrely unmusical.

Isn't he obviously terrible at music?

lmao glass houses and stones.

I've never heard a black person say his name

Oh, well if you haven't . . .

White people are so behind / it doesn't matter if we cosplay as Bob Dylan /. . . we'll still fail to understand that the problem in these conversations and this music is us

Jesus Christ, dude, then put down your fucking guitar if that's how it is! That way you don't need to culturally appropriate from the pinnacle of Afro-Appalachian art and only folk musician you mention besides yourself and Welles, Bob fucking Dylan. So much for being appreciative of it being black music when you can't even be fucking bothered to list a black artist in this repetitive rant that's supposedly about appropriating from black artists. He's just doing a land acknowledgement on land that he has no intention of returning, but so long as he's self-disparaging about being white he can keep doing the same shit that he uses as a paper-thin excuse to attack others.

Don't get me wrong, I was pissed about the Kirk song and it dramatically lowered my opinion of Welles, but this is so embarrassing that it's hard to watch. Also, the assassin almost certainly wasn't a fascist and that clearly was not the motivation for the killing unless the whole existing narrative is a conspiracy, but it should be unsurprising that someone with such an opportunistic attitude toward politics would cling to the version of the story he most prefers. "But this was published when that was less known," then he shouldn't be making claims about it and you probably shouldn't be reposting something with overt misinformation.

Anyway, fuck Welles and fuck this guy.