So this popped up on my FB Newsfeed. I couldn’t comment on it because it wasn’t one of my friends’ posts, however a friend did comment on it.
Why can’t people of color ever mourn in peace? Why do white people always have to demean our tragedies when they get media coverage, and they always do it to bring attention to another, unrelated event.
And it’s not just white people, I’ve seen a few of you spouting bullshit about how everyone cares about Whitney Houston’s passing but doesn’t care about Syria or Greece, as if it’s fucking impossible for complex living organisms such as ourselves to give a fuck about more than one thing at a time.
I’m just so fucking sick of all the anti-Black bullshit; but then people wan to cry about solifuckingdarity when it’s convenient for them. Ugh. Let us mourn in fucking peace for fuck’s sake.
Metal fans are some of the most racist people on earth. Of course they’d think that a white guy no one outside their subculture has heard of is more worthy of the world’s collective grief than a black woman. Any black woman.
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Wow the fuck is this.
Jesus motherfakkin’ Christ. The racism, ableism and classism in that macro is just… wtf.
Let’s break down the shittiness of this macro.
- Bullshit way to try to show what performer was “superior” to the other. Didn’t anyone ever teach this macro-creator “quality over quantity?” Admittedly I haven’t heard of Forsberg and I’m not sure if he is good or not, but isn’t this redundant when your fourth point on him points out that while he has had many albums, some were bad?
- Whitney Houston had a great voice but she didn’t write her songs and that makes her a “bad” musician. Okay. Is a writer any less of a writer if they didn’t draw their own stories? Does it make an illustrator less than illustrator if they didn’t write their own stories to go along with their art? Again, redundant.
- Redundant. Look above for reference.
- How does Kevin Costner figure in? I mean, even without him involved, the albums still sucked, right? And this is a weird comparison, Forsberg didn’t probably star in movie so you can’t compare his music to Houston’s movie, apples and oranges and all that.
- There is no right way to handle having a drug problem. And how can one exploit themselves by having no control with how the media treats one? How do you know Houston’s loved ones hadn’t tried to reach out to her? How do you know with what what you seemingly picked up from the news and gossip?
- Uh, I’m assuming you really don’t know music outside of metal, which, okay, cool, whatever, but know this, Forsberg is to metal is to Houston is to op music. She really innovated pop music in the eighties. She entwined gospel-honed agility and rhythmic intuition to make her own sort of pop music. She influenced today’s many performers, including Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey. Oh, wait, that’s right. Because she’s in the pop genre, she didn’t innovate anything. Except, you know, made influential pop music! But it doesn’t matter because it’s not your music!
- Wow, ego much? What you dislike is automatically insignificant? See point above to see how stupid your argument is. AGAIN.
- She can’t control the headlines the way she can’t control the media. Maybe instead of trying to invalidate one person’s death with another is to just mourn for the one who really hit you hard while being a decent human being and realize the other person didn’t deserve to die either, even if you disliked her music, disliked her popularity, whatever, because that didn’t make her a worthless human being.
You can take your elitism and shove it up your ass.
I’M JUST SAYIN’
BE STILL MY HEART!
What does racism have to do with this? You guys talk about equality yet you bring up the term racism every time a black person is involved. Whitney Houston had everything going for her. Fame. Talent. Beauty. She decided to take drugs and it messed up her life. For at least a week, the media just won’t shut up about Whitney Houston. Stop immortalizing failures! Kids need good role models who are not a bunch of drugged up celebrities.
So I guess the fans of like 90% of the Rock and Metal bands need to stop idolizing them? Good Fucking Luck. You know one of the things about being human is we make mistakes to learn from them, and to teach others. SO why don’t you get off of your ever so fucking high horse (please do it with head plant to save the rest of us the time in sharing O2 with you), and join we humans.
I rarely reblog the WALL OF TEXT but this is valid as shit. I’m so sick of this. We can idolize Cobain, Monroe, Elvis, etc but when a black artist dies they were just crackheads who didn’t accomplish anything. SHUT THE ACTUAL FUCK UP
Dear Dangerous124, please, for the sake of fuck, shut the fuck up.
I’m really not in the mood for this bullshit today.
Me either. Not even a little bit.
