Let’s be perfectly clear on this right at the off:
Neil Young is an idiot, a narcissist, and in the end, a fascist.
That’s right, I said it.
I pointed out sometime ago that everything the left doesn’t like is Hitler. I even provided photographic evidence. The problem of course is that exactly the reverse is true.
John Nolte, over at Breitbart, comes up with an interesting piece on the subject today;
Why would an anti-establishment hippie like Neil Young suddenly turn fascist and want to blacklist Joe Rogan to protect the establishment from criticism?
Why did Sean Penn embrace a left-wing Nazi like Hugo Chavez?
Why is left-wing Hollywood sucking up to China’s Nazis?
Why does a 60s icon like Cher call for the imprisonment of those she disagrees with?
Why does a free spirit like Bette Midler demand all women stop having sex with men?
Why does a Whoopi Goldberg rhetorically lynch an innocent man?
Why does television’s most famous anti-establishment liberal now protect the establishment by accusing those he disagrees with of “sedition?”
Neil Young is behaving like Joe McCarthy.
Meathead is behaving like Richard Nixon.
Whoopi is behaving like the Klan.
Bette is behaving like the Church lady.
Hollywood is behaving like Vichy France.
What’s going on?
How is this possible?
After all, for most of our lives, we’ve recognized the artists and artistic establishment that emerged from the sixties and seventies as free speech warriors, as classical liberals, as envelope pushers, as the very “heroes” who put an end to McCarthyism, the prudish Moral Majority, the Production Code, and old-fashioned censorship.
But look at them now! They’re the ones calling for blacklists, censorship, prudery, and political arrests!
I would add YouTube to this list given what happened to Dan Bongino, who is hardly alone in being silenced by that platform.
I would add Facebook to the list, and Twitter, as well.
The Breitbart piece goes on to describe the people listed here as narcissist, and certainly, they are all that. Nolte correctly points out that the list of people above and many others never really did believe in free speech although they were waving that flag to draw attention to themselves. The moment anybody dared disagree with them, the dedication to free speech went out the window.
And oh by the way, as Nick Sandman demonstrated clearly, speech wasn’t even necessary.
They went from supposedly supporting free speech to shutting down any and all opposition speech so quickly that anyone watching closely would be suffering from whiplash about now.
At least, among those who didn’t identify the fascism that they represent from the go.
Since this one’s in the news right now, let’s take for example Neil Young. He decided to threaten Spotify that if they didn’t take Joe Rogan off the service he would take all of his songs off the service.
Spotify, was apparently having none of it, correctly said “wish granted”, and pulled all his material off the service proactively and preemptively. Bye-bye, Neil.
Obviously Young’s threats were not quite the lever that he thought they would be. I think it’s safe to conclude the man has an overly inflated opinion of himself.
Personally, I can take his music or leave it. I can only think of about three maybe four tunes that were serious hit material that he penned, two of which took other people recording them to get them recognized at all. And keep in mind I was making my living as a DJ through that period.
In all honesty, I haven’t spent much time listening to Joe Rogan, but if Neil Young hates him that much, I probably should be listening.
In his defense it should be noted that Neil Young has taken wookism to the next level… Being so woke, that he canceled himself.
In truth what we’re seeing with Neil Young, is pretty much what we’ve been seeing with the left for several years now.
They are the real fascists.