The Real Reason The Left Hates Jason Aldean’s New Song Has Nothing To Do With ‘Racism’
Arts And Entertainment,Music,Urban Rural Divide,Polarization,Culture War,Rural America
On Monday, Country Music Television (CMT) confirmed it stopped airing Jason Aldean’s newly released music video for his song “Try That in a Small Town.” According to CMT and virtually every corporate media outlet, Aldean’s song is wildly racist and “pro-lynching.”
This is a curious accusation, given that the song makes no reference to race at all. Instead, it’s a rebuke of the left’s 2020 summer of rage that, ironically, torched and looted countless black neighborhoods and businesses. It is also a condemnation of “defund the police” activists and Soros-installed DAs who refuse to prosecute violent criminals in lawless blue cities — something else that happens to have an outsized negative effect on minorities and low-income individuals.
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