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HOW DOES MUSIC FEEL TODAY? Freaked Out By Nazis at the Indy Music Festival?

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HOW DOES MUSIC FEEL TODAY? Freaked Out By Nazis at the Indy Music Festival?

Neko Case
Sep 16, 2022
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If there was one thing my flawed, racist, colonialist, ableist, misogynist poor public school education taught me, even back in the 70s and 80s, it was that Nazis were absolutely, unnacceptably, inhumanely criminal. They were “bad guys”. The worst guys in fact. I’m not going to run down the lists of atrocities, you know them. So when people in our country identify with Nazis and wear their MAGA hats to the indy music festival where most of us are everything they hate, I am confused. I don’t mean a group of testosterone-fueled shit disturbers who want to beat people up, but 60-year-olds in utility kilts, staking out their spot in the VIP tent before doors to the general public are open. Do they just have a confrontation addiction?

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