Was/Is Morrissey Racist?

A Facebook contact of mine named him music's equivalent of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (who was a nazi during WW2): A brilliant artist, but ideologically not quite there....

Damn you've got big roaches.

it's also frustrating because this type of stuff discredits animal rights and factory food issues that are really important because ppl think "oh those peta people are soooo crazeee"

XXXXXP Well, as a hardcore vegetarian I couldn't disagree more. I don't care about the fate of one individual cow or sheep. It's the whole factory farming industry and the crippling effect, processed meat in the form of fast food has on low income communities that bothers me. But I'll admit I'm probably in a minority when it comes to this.

add me to the choir of veg heads who wish morrissey would shut his fucking maw

exactly. I'm on board with the fair and humane treatment of animals in regards to factory food. it's when people go into "you should never kill animals ever, even for food" territory that I get a bit o_O. but that's a stark minority of people (I only know of one person in my life who is vegetarian for that reason)

I can totally see Mozzer, in the light of such a tragedy, saying "but what about all the 80s miners that lost their jobs?!". Now it's animal rights, but it could be anything he throws against what happened in Norway. It is querulant trolling.

I can totally see Mozzer, in the light of such a tragedy, saying "but what about all the millions of cockroaches killed yearly by cans of Raid?"

lol

I have heard Morrissey referred to on these very forums as some sort of amazing, gifted lyricist who really has a way with words. I have never agreed with this view and I submit as further evidence the fact that he couldn't come up with anything more clever than "Kentucky Fried Shit". Really, Morrissey?

maybe he would be less angry if he was eating at Kentucky Fried Chicken instead of Kentucky Fried Shit

like im a pretty reasonable dude but even i have my limits

otm

jjjusten u r my HE-ro

i don't even want to know what kentucky fried shit's "double down" would be

pig shit in-between two patties of chicken shit

seems p obv to me

i would eat at kentucky fried shit if i was hungry enough but i wouldn't go complaining about it like baby huey here

You could just get their mashed potatoes and a biscuit

I'd be careful about their gravy, tho

w/o gravy, of course

especially w/o gravy

haha goddammit

We bet one of our students to eat one and a half Double Downs last summer: the poor dude couldn't sleep for days, suffered migraines, and consumed ten liters of water.

Well, I can see that if it's pig shit inbetween chicken shit patties

important question: did he report suffering from the "meat sweats"?

Asks the guy dreaming of vodka sandwich...

because that is totally a thing, and i know this thanks to a "how many baskets of bacon can you eat" dare that happened one night at the bar

I love this ad--it's basically saying "YES! IT'S REAL? YOU ACTUALLY LIVE IN A DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE WORLD WHERE THIS EXISTS!"

http://consumerist.com/doubledown_hdr.jpg

important question: did he report suffering from the "meat sweats"?

fowl sweats

It looks like some hideous sea creature emerging from its lair licking its lips and preparing to rip your heart out

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I thought you just sweated something like mayo after those

http://swittersb.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/a-montauk-ny-sea-creature.jpg

i always thought that KFC Pig Bucket they had was worse than the double down

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/32000/Kentucky-Fried-Cockroaches-----32000.jpg

What the fuck is that sunbathing, shaved minotaur thing?

our reporter, transformed into a Double Down.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a KFC Snacker.

daavid, have you heard of false equivalence or are you being dense?

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Yes I have, but I don't know how it applies to my argument. Look, I'm not saying he isn't an idiot. I'm not saying I agree with his point of view. All I'm saying is I didn't personally find his comment offensive because in my interpretation it had nothing to do with the Norway killings. Although yes, as DJP says, he should've separated the two.

All I'm saying is I didn't personally find his comment offensive because in my interpretation it had nothing to do with the Norway killings.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but your interpretation sounds kinda batshit since he explicitly mentioned the Norway attacks in the very quote!

I wasn't offended because Morrissey has been a moron since 1986 at least.

^ what alfred said.

and im a miserable vegetarian. i dont know the words to any smiths songs.

haha yeah alfred otm

Moz was a crucial part of my high school and early college years but even then I understood that anyone who takes his political pronouncements -- whether in song or lecture -- seriously is a cretin who needs to get over the love affair with his or herself. Since when has Morrissey ever cared about other people? Morrissey is his great subject. So of course he would talk like a Lady Thatcher in training.

i'm a bit of an absolutist. don't know how you can be a vegetarian without believing similar things.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but your interpretation sounds kinda batshit since he explicitly mentioned the Norway attacks in the very quote!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, July 29, 2011 12:45 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

It is not about Norway. He is using it as a reference to make his point about how horrible is it to mistreat and kill animals.

Moz/Noel - equally short period of 'former glory', leaden pub rock backing bands, outspoken troll behaviour

Can't see Morrissey being a Kasabian fan though.

http://i53.tinypic.com/2wm2grc.jpg

oh hell no

It does succeed in killing any appetite for flesh far better than his statement on Norway ever could.

ok, you may think he's a cunt, and i always have, but he's a middle-age man, that's what they look like, fuck up.