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Genuinely surprised (and appalled) by that.

Granted The Nuge has been cartooning his Stars N Stripes selling point for a good few decades now. He's as cartoon as KISS are in his bow-toting raw meat eating way.

But, at the heart of it appeared to be essentially, a gung-ho libertarian. He once claimed he'd "die" for the "right" for homosexuals to go about their business even if he didn't care for them as a sexual preference. And I've read that he extolled the virtues of black people and in fact proclaimed himself to be "black" in the sense of the roots of rock n roll.

I dunno, this sounds more like just a totally cretinous effort to still shock and outrage when he's playing clubs in some town to ever diminshing returns. Sad more than anything really. Silly old cunt.

Moon Cat wrote:
Silly old cunt.
That's pretty much word for word what I thought. Though maybe that is me letting him off too lightly because I like a couple of his records so much. I guess I wont know until someone whose music I actually hate makes the same kind of statement in public.

Moon Cat wrote:
But, at the heart of it appeared to be essentially, a gung-ho libertarian.
Doubtlessly that's how it started. Trouble is, if you're a gung-ho libertarian you will probably end up socialising with some fairly dodgy types. And eventually their more extreme ideas will start to seep into you. It's near impossible to avoid.

Having said that, even if he were just a gung-ho libertarian with no racist views, it'd put him on the other side of the fence from me personally. Libertarianism sounds fine and dandy if you don't look too deep below the surface, but any kind of analysis of it reveals an essentially anti-human philosophy.

EDIT: PS. I'm not actually familiar with his music, so I have no 'artistic' reason to defend or attack the guy.