Call me a dumb bitch fucking commie liberal democrat hippie politically correct tree-hugging faggot but I think Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘That Ain’t My America’ sucks.
These are the kind of charming epithets that pepper message boards in response to any who dares to make perfectly accurate comments like “this is a song about a stupid redneck who can’t understand, much less adjust to, the changes that are going on all around him”.
The You Tube comments are brimming over with vitriol for those who diss this tune.
Here’s a particularly rabid one (typos left intact):
“die scum with yyour stinking comments i bet u r not here legally i wud like to get my hands on u and pour gas down your throat and light u up !!!!!! go suck on your fellow moslem non citizens dick scum lots of christian americians r waking up and it will result in all moslems thrown out or killed just like ferdinand and isabella did in spain !!!!!!!!!YOU AND YOUR FELLOW TRAVELLERS WILL GET YOURS SOONER THAN U THINk die die die!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Hard as it is to argue such well-reasoned , persuasive arguments, I would like to take a few moments to reflect on what this song is saying. Continue reading
