Re: @Wondering
Author: Pdxrailtransit
Date: 03-29-2020 - 20:23
Trackwuurk Wrote:
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> Natalie Maines in the Dixie Chicks' were pretty
> much banned from country radio because some irate
> radio station managers and country music fans
> "cancelled" them because in 2003 they expressed an
> opinion about he Iraq War and George Bush. I read
> the following on the internet:
>
> "Dixie Chicks CDs were rounded up, and in one
> famous incident were run over by a bulldozer.
> Concerts were canceled in the US as the Dixie
> Chicks couldn’t sell tickets, and rival concerts
> were set up that would take Dixie Chicks tickets
> in exchange. The Dixie Chicks lost their sponsor
> Lipton, and The Red Cross denied a million dollar
> endorsement from the band, fearing it would draw
> the ire of the boycott. The Dixie Chicks also
> received hundreds of death threats from the
> incident."
>
> Looks like country radio was ahead of the rest of
> the nation in cancel culture.
>
> Yes indeed. Right-wing utopia we've lived in.
Very good point. Intolerance for contrary views knows no distinction between camps. BTW, Natalie Maine's is my idea of one dang good looking woman.