Cancel culture targets Eric Clapton

[Counselor706]

Eric Clapton announced Friday that he and fellow music legend Van Morrison will be releasing a new anti-lockdown single in early December.

The announcement did not sit well with those who believe stringent, business-killing lockdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic should not be questioned. So the cancel culture went to work to try to discredit Clapton's anti-lockdown work by reminding people of racially insensitive remarks the rocker made more than 40 years ago.

In an effort to discredit Clapton's stance against lockdowns, the woke crowd dug up 44-year-old racist comments the artist made — comments he has recanted and for which he has repeatedly apologized.

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[oggbashan]

Assholes will be assholes.

The result in the real world is likely to be more sales of Clapton's album.

In the 1960s, every artist wanted their pop record 'banned by the BBC' because it meant an instant and massive increase in sales.

 

[CornusKousa]

Asshoes will be assholes.

The result in the real world is likely to be more sales of Clapton's album.

In the 1960s, every artist wanted their pop record 'banned by the BBC' because it meant an instant and massive increase in sales.

Gotta love how not wanting the state to just toss your civil rights out and destroy your life makes you an asshole these days.

Yea, it's called the Streisand effect.

 

[Just4AFriend]

Have your businesses

Just wear fucking masks and keep your fucking distance

They managed to do this in 1918, but they too had multiple waves
Nice to see we learn NOTHING from history
Hopefull ‘rump will follow in his granddad’s foot prints!
Why? For being such a fucked up “leader”!!

 

[oggbashan]

Gotta love how not wanting the state to just toss your civil rights out and destroy your life makes you an asshole these days.

Yea, it's called the Streisand effect.

Wrong way round. Those objecting to Clapton want more restrictions.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Just so I am clear, Northern Ireland's health minister calling the songs "dangerous" now amounts to cancel culture?

And we have this unattributed and speculative statement:

In an effort to discredit Clapton's stance against lockdowns, the woke crowd dug up 44-year-old racist comments the artist made — comments he has recanted and for which he has repeatedly apologized.

Who is this "woke crowd"?

Seems very false flag to me so the Alt-Right has something to blubber about.

 

[Dingobaby]

He's going to get Dixie Chicked?

 

[CornusKousa]

Have your businesses

That is something "Progressives" are hole heartedly against.

Thus the lockdowns.

Wrong way round. Those objecting to Clapton want more restrictions.

Oh I thought you were pro-lockdown and were calling Clapton an asshole for not wanting lockdowns.

What changed your mind to become a Trumpeter who doesn't care about anyone but themselves like that piece of shit fascist Eric Clapton??

Who is this "woke crowd"?

Grab a mirror comrade.

 

[Just4AFriend]

That is something "Progressives" are hole heartedly against.

Thus the lockdowns.



Oh I thought you were pro-lockdown and were calling Clapton an asshole for not wanting lockdowns.

What changed your mind to become a Trumpeter who doesn't care about anyone but themselves like that piece of shit fascist Eric Clapton??



Grab a mirror comrade.

Bullshit

Just keep telling yourself what you fucking think we think, comrade
How much is Putin paying you to break up America ?
When will you all stop your McCarthiest tactics??

 

[CornusKousa]

He's going to get Dixie Chicked?

You think totalitarian progressives are his primary fan base?

LMFAO!!!!!!

Just like Joe Rogan and Ted Nugent lost it all for insulting vegans

Can't Dixie Chick yourself by pissing off people who don't give you money anyhow.

 

[CornusKousa]

Bullshit

How so, make your case for the business friendly "progressives".

Because I'm not seeing it in all the lockdowns, allowing BLM/Antif to freely loot and burn them down and no legal recourse for defense.

You legislate homeless folks can come in and steal their shit and disrupt their business whenever they like.....you all support and encourage that.

You want to regulate them out of any profits and then tax them for anything they might have left.

Yea....not really seeing the "pro business" side of "progress" yet.

Just keep telling yourself what you tucking think we think, comrade

You guys tell me, every day when you cry for more government authority, more centralized control and restrictions at every level to ensure equity.

You have a right to everyone else's property and labor because SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!

Civil rights and private property are alt-reich Truimpism!! Toxicshitsludge "Fuck you got mine" ideology!!!

How much is Putin paying you to break up America ?

Put the tinfoil hat down.....especially considering you progressives are the hammer and sickle waving communist here.

When will you all stop your McCarthiest tactics??

When you all stop your Marxist/Maoist/"Progressive" tactics and go back to minding your own business.

 

[Lazaran]

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Thanks for posting this.

I probably would have never known about Clapton's racist xenophobic leanings without your assistance.

It makes it a lot easier to ignore anything he or Van Morrison have to say.

I'm just surprised some right winger hasn't told him to "shut up and play".

Strange.......

 

[oggbashan]

Oh I thought you were pro-lockdown and were calling Clapton an asshole for not wanting lockdowns.

What changed your mind to become a Trumpeter who doesn't care about anyone but themselves like that piece of shit fascist Eric Clapton??



Grab a mirror comrade.

Then you thought wrong and haven't been reading my posts...

But you probably can't read...

 

[CornusKousa]

Then you thought wrong and haven't been reading my posts...

But you probably can't read...

That's rich coming from you....but hey at least you managed to post without making up wild lies about me.

 

[YDB95]

I'd like a cite on the claim that Clapton apologised for those remarks. I've always heard he's tried to have it both ways, distancing himself but never quite admitting he was wrong.

 

[KeithD]

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So, what you're saying is that your Trumpette friends who go after Biden for having attended Robert Byrd's funeral decades after Byrd publicly recanted having been in the KKK are off base in their targeting of Biden.

 

[Tim2run]

Clapton is God.



In short, he's bigger than this temporary tempest in a teapot...

A year from now, we will still remember Layla.

 

[Funit]

I'd like a cite on the claim that Clapton apologised for those remarks. I've always heard he's tried to have it both ways, distancing himself but never quite admitting he was wrong.

This is from Wikipedia:

In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton said that he was not a political person and that his rambling remarks that night were not appropriate. In a 2004 interview with Uncut, Clapton referred to Powell as "outrageously brave". He complained that the UK was "... inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos." In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday, "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense." In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton claimed to be "oblivious to it all." In a December 2007 interview with Melvyn Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton told Bragg that he was not a racist but still believed Powell's comments were relevant

 

[oggbashan]

What Enoch Powell said, and what Eric Clapton approved of, was that the UK government could not continue to suggest that every citizen of every commonwealth country had an unfettered right to come and live in the UK. At the time that was a quarter of the world's population and was nonsense.

What Enoch Powell said was deliberately misquoted - but he knew it would be - and relied on that to make a big impact.

Eventually, the government accepted that Enoch Powell's argument was correct and introduced immigration controls and removed the right for any Commonwealth citizen to come to the UK.

Enoch Powell's argument was sensible but the way he phrased it was deliberately chosen for maximum outrage.

 

[Funit]

This race controversy is (very) old news, nothing new. Eric Clapton has had his time, his legacy is secure and nothing will take that away from him.

 

[oggbashan]

This race controversy is (very) old news, nothing new. Eric Clapton has had his time, his legacy is secure and nothing will take that away from him.

And if everyone is judged by what they might have said (or have been misquoted as having said) forty plus years ago - then no one is exempt.

 

[domroger]

And if everyone is judged by what they might have said (or have been misquoted as having said) forty plus years ago - then no one is exempt.

Sometimes I have trouble remembering things from forty minutes ago .never mind forty years .

 

[oggbashan]

Sometimes I have trouble remembering things from forty minutes ago .never mind forty years .

But if you posted it - someone can drag it up to embarrass you.

 

[YDB95]

This is from Wikipedia:

In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton said that he was not a political person and that his rambling remarks that night were not appropriate. In a 2004 interview with Uncut, Clapton referred to Powell as "outrageously brave". He complained that the UK was "... inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos." In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday, "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense." In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton claimed to be "oblivious to it all." In a December 2007 interview with Melvyn Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton told Bragg that he was not a racist but still believed Powell's comments were relevant

None of those are really an apology, although the first one from October 1976 comes close.

 

[CornusKousa]

Oh look....woke lefties are still thirsty as fuck for racism....it's everywhere, behind all things they don't like!!

LOL....stay mad SJW warriors.