Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes something to really let you know just how stupid some people are.
The Dixie Chicks played Knoxville last night in front of about 18,000 fans. I'm sure they sold souvenirs, T-shirts, CD's, posters, and all kinds of crap to the crowd, lining their wallets with lots of the green stuff. They're all millionaires several times over.
But some insist that they're still victims of one of the most repressive regimes on the planet, the Bush Administration.
One T-shirt sold at the concert illustrates the moral idiocy of some on the left.
The T-shirt said "Free Natalie!"
Now come on! A sold out concert tour, millions in royalties from 2 platinum albums, singing in front of thousands of adoring fans nightly, and she has the gall to cry about repression?
I don't think so!
Ask the folks in the Soviet era gulags what repression is. Ask Nelson Mandela about repression. Ask the Polish jews in the Warsaw ghettos. Ask Muslims living in Milosevic's Bosnia. Ask the Kurds in northern Iraq. Then tell them that Natalie is their sister in repression.
You might want to duck quickly, unless you enjoy getting slapped in the face.
In this one image the absolute arrogance of the left is laid bare for the world to see. The backlash against the Dixie Chicks has been rendered morally equivalent to the 2 decades Mandela spent imprisoned for speaking out against apartheid.
And you know what? I don't care if it was a joke. It's a sick joke, and an insult to everyone who has suffered under real oppression, which by the way excludes every American citizen, regardless of race, creed, nationality, or sex.
Yes, we have our problems, but systematic repression of the rights of a citizen based solely on their political beliefs is not one of them, regardless of what natalie and her friends think.
Posted by Rich at May 8, 2003 11:41 AM | TrackBack>>One T-shirt sold at the concert illustrates the moral idiocy of some on the left.
Well. One person actually. You sir :) are practicing the low art of hyperbole. One T-shirt does all this? So Arnold Schwarzenegger's toting a gun and killing hundreds is representative of, what all people who on cars and use them to to go the cinema?
Thanks for the link. I'll have to check in more often, here.
Posted by: Andrew | BYTE BACK on May 8, 2003 9:25 PMActually, the person selling, and all the ones who buy them. I've heard (can't verify) that they were fairly popular.
Actually, the T-shirt is just an extension of the crying we've been hearing from multiple sources about "repression" by the right. We've heard Bruce, and Babs, Tim and Susan, Molly Ivins, and all their buddies deploring the "chill wind" destroying democracy.
It's simply ludicrous.
By the way, you've been linked for awhile, and you're welcome.
Posted by: rich on May 8, 2003 11:08 PMhey, don't take it so seriously. those t-shirts have been around for a long time. it's just a spin-off of the very popular "free winona" t-shirts (like the actress wore on the cover of W or Rolling Stone; I can't remember which) as well as "free martha [stewart]" and "free Ms. Cleo." and the people that wear them aren't leftists but rather "emo"-ists, that underground culture that likes to mock pop culture. it just POP CULTURE.
(also, by the way, the Kurds in turkey face far greater opression than those in iraq)
Give me a break!!
Natalie is human, we all say things we regret sometimes. She is a talented musician who is entitled to free speech just like every American. Trust me there are far more important things to worry about than "who said what" Instead of dissing people, why don't you congratulate those who volunteer, or those who fight in the wars. Its obvious that you are intent on focussing on the negative issues in society. THe media and so many people have blown this out of proportion. This is all BS. People need to forgive and move on with there lives. And by the way --CHICKS ROCK.
GO CHICKS!!!!!!!
Posted by: Natalie 4 President on June 10, 2003 1:20 AM