I agree. It frustrating bc at the end of the day he can do what he wants. They’re his songs. And he can change them to reflect how he feels, but going in to the show he has this immense backup choir who will sing along with him but if he changes the words we just stop singing bc we’re confused. It’s a tough situation in terms of thinking of concerts as being communal happenings or events which isn’t always the goal but i thought it was on the cusp of a midterm election where we’re trying to flip the house from gay-hate red to blue. Whatever. He’ll always be cool in my book. I’ve deduced he’s not so much racist as nostalgic and there’s nothing wrong with that. He’s a good kid raised by a lecture-y domineering mom. Nobody considers that but I’ll always know.
There’s a lot of people in the world who hate change and I’d say without skipping a beat Morrissey is a leader of that mindset. But it reads as racist. But it isn’t at the end of the day. It’s more an OCD issue. Unless of course he’s Urban then I’d change the convo bc he’s full of fear but as i see it, he ain’t racist. He just wants the chip shops he doesn’t go to to be run by pastey blokes like his dad knew. It’s a harmless mindset. Prove me wrong.
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Nothing could be further from the truth and there are no chip shops here. If I lived with fear then my stomach would hurt but I see reality for what it is and not all people are into that especially these days when a twitter post could mean they lose their job and their season ticket at the club they support.
G23 is always on about the divide between youth and the old and that divide is natural and have always been there but personally I don't miss my youth at all or want to return to it. But I do find the young generations to be hopeless snowflakes who lost all self respect but that is something they will have to deal with when I am long gone.
Thanks for being the only one realising I'm not racist but fear don't come into it and I would urge you not to project your own fear onto me. My dad is and always was a big jazz fan and knew more non-white non-swedes than most people and he was a liberal but the true kind who wanted the individual to dictate over life instead of the state and the government dealing with every single detail of our private lives.
Nowadays he votes for the racists just like me and we don't mind being called racists as long as the political views are there to defend certain values that we will miss when they are gone forever. In Sweden someone with your view would call him and me insane and let that explain why we are such racists but labels have always been there since the beginning of time and in the end they have no effect on you. Opinion is good and sound and we need more of it not less.
When it comes to what you call chip shops, pizzerias, I did visit one the other week which is run by the serbian mob and the guy there was all smiles having not seen me in years. I asked him if they ever found and took care of the people that robbed the place a few years ago and he just smiled and nodded.
It is weird that if you have a certain view people like yourself believe that people like us never mix with non-whites and people from abroad. I even helped an immigrant from Iraq to send text messages to a girl from Vietnam and they are happily married with kids today. I also worked with a muslim woman who took off her hijab at work for a big easter party that we had which made her 20 years younger. She could do that cause her husband had died. Her and me talked a lot about things while working and even talked in private when I ran past her and her family having a BBQ in a park. I would have married her daughter in an instant.
I have had girlfriends from Finland, South Korea and Hungary. In Manchester I frequently spent time with people from every culture and often went in cabs with pakistanis and we always discussed politics and why the english have a hard time accepting them.
I had to defend my black ticket tout who provided me with tickets when he wasn't working with his pressure tubing business and even had to defend him against a local mob in a pub there. The others would have loved to hear him talk about how he was friends with several dutch national team players who invited him to their games.
I know this comes as a surprise but I hate racism and the worst form of racism to me was when swedish bouncers refused certain people to enter clubs and pubs back in the late 90's and early 00's. If we cannot even meet and talk and enjoy each others company in public places and clubs and bars we are truly doomed.
How in the hell did I end up in your equation like this?
