What happened to the Dixie Chicks was actually "cancel culture"

[YorkRd]

REMEMBER WHEN NATALIE MAINES CRITICIZED THE PRESIDENT?


This is not just a random walk down country controversy memory lane. It was March 10, 2003, when Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks — now the Chicks — told a crowd in London that they were "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," referring to George W. Bush.

She made that remark during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The resulting backlash was swift and severe.



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[sakabatou]

1. I remember that.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

2. True and I remember where anyone who opposed the Iraq invasion

was considered an unpatriotic American by the Bush Administration Repukes.

Funny how Iraq is NEVER mentioned by the Repukes today. Oh except for if a former Vet is running for office and needs to put on their election material that they served there.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. Wasn't just the bush people. All of American Media was beating the war drums and eliminating dissent

[stopdiggin]

12. thanks. but it wasn't just the media

a very large proportion on the U.S. were suddenly big Toby Keith fans - the Patriot Act set sail without so much as a murmur - and Islamophobia was common as dirt. Oh - and despite the curious lack of 'weapons of mass destruction' found in Iraq - the American voter went on to reelect their very own village idiot (by a comfortable margin) a year and a half later. So - it's hard for me to place all of these folks in the role of 'unwitting dupes' - so much as willing and active participants.

And, getting back to the OP, support for the Chicks - myself not withstanding - was fairly muted, even in circles where they should have been able to expect more.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

19. Good points and my apologies for straying away from the topic of the Dixie Chicks getting cancelled.

Naturally, the same groups guilty of this are whining about cancel culture today.

[SunSeeker]

3. Orange Idi Amin said much worse about Bush, and claimed he always opposed the Iraq War.

Yet MAGATs still adore him.

[BradAllison]

4. The Tea Bag Party claimed they hated Dumbya.....

.....and protested him like Obama......such bullshit....

[cstanleytech]

5. They adore him for many reasons.

Some because they check their boxes for being a bigoted asshole and for others its because he benefits them financially and then for others its because they have been brainwashed (though for many it was only a light rinse) that he is the second coming of Christ and they must support him.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. YES and YES. Remember the Dixie Chicks, when American War Fever was at its height,

American mass media wanted blood and anyone standing in the way must be eliminated.

It was the worst of times, and now the same mass media is at it again with the not so subtle suppression of the daily news of a coup attempt. The disappointment in the Ukraine press and politicians playing down western war talk and western media war drums.

One thing TFG got partially right, the mass media IS the enemy of the common people… are enemies of the full truth.

[RandiFan1290]

8. With the full backing of iHeart Radio (Clear Channel)

Their radio stations held CD burning parties in the parking lots.

[MissMillie]

9. I was so thrilled for them when they won Album of the Year when they came back

Honestly, I don't care much for country music, but what happened to them introduced me to them, and their abundant talent.

[genxlib]

10. No post about this is complete without the FU song they came back with

Love the defiance in this song

[Scrivener7]

11. The whole concept of "Cancel Culture" is absurd. What republiQans define as cancel

culture is people voluntarily turning away from odious people and events.

But when THEY LEGISLATE the erasure of facts and people and rights and events, they call that family values.

[gulliver]

13. Yep, their side does it too

Heck, they're canceling democracy.

[spanone]

14. Agreed. Their own industry destroyed them.

Never been so ashamed of the Music Business.

[kentuck]

15. What happened to Governor Dean was cancel culture.

What happened to Hillary was cancel culture. Oh, her emails!

What happened to John Kerry could be argued as cancel culture.

The Republican Party thrives on cancel culture, in my opinion.

[RussBLib]

16. indeed, so they project it

sure would be nice to have a 2nd actually functioning political party, instead of this current crop of conspiracy theory/racist/prejudiced/bible-thumping/hateful mo-fos.

[North Shore Chicago]

17. Fucking Toby Keith.

Of course the shirt with FUTK was for him.

I couldn't wait to order their music after this. History shows THEY were on the side of truth.

[Wingus Dingus]

18. Country music pretty much died after that, anyway.

That was toward the end of a pretty good 16-year run of really listenable popular country music--The Dixie Chicks, the Judds, Garth Brooks, Patty Loveless, Brooks and Dunn, Tim McGraw, etc. Pretty much just garbage out there now.