Yeah… its kind of hard to spin “they were not articulate enough” in a way that isnt sexist or racist when asked why he didnt interview black and female musicians.
I really want to believe this is all caused by lead poisoning affecting the Boomers’ executive judgment function.
It beats the alternative of accepting that we’re surrounded by flaming morons who stayed undetected for their entire lives before coming out as misogynistic and racist assholes just in time to ruin their legacy.
I hate to break it to you, but both of those things can be true
Spectacular. The shit he was saying was just utter trash. So is he.
“were seen as disparaging” no they just straight up fucking were disparaging
“controversial”?
Yikes
I saw the headline and was like, “so what’d he say? Was it really outrageous, like antisemitic stuff? Or something vague but problematic?”
And he’s just like, “Well, I just want to go on the record as saying that I have a strong unexamined bias against the cultural contributions of people who don’t look like me. And even though I know this is outdated, stupid, sand definitely outside the bounds of what I can say without consequences, I do not respect women or black people. Next question?”
I’m now bewildered but how stupid he is than his poor judgements.
There’s no way this is the first time he’s said shit like this, it’s just the first time anyone cared.
