Was/Is Morrissey Racist?

"He's wearing rose-colored glasses instead of swastikas, therefore it's uncriticizable."

lol swinburning its pretty easy to mistake the comments of someone who "is in love with a thing that never really existed" based on a romantic concept of people- or nationhood with a member of the national front because, uh, the national front is all about the romanticization of a people or nation that never really existed in the way they think of it.

see: fascism.

Hey, this all worked for Eric Clapton, didn't it?

Also, I think Dom is jealous that Morrissey has zinged the NME about ten million times and he never will.

I have no idea if he's a racist or not - but he did the smart thing in getting out of England. It's a shithole full of angry, repressed, frustrated, alcoholic, ill-educated people crammed on to part of a tiny island. Give me the US, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, or Scotland any day.

-- Emily S., Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:54 (8 hours ago) Link

now this i can get behind, except the last sentence.

he's not objecting to immigration per se, he's objecting to the perceived specific consequences of immigration in England (or so i suspect).

-- blueski, Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:41 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

eh?

Next year on ILM: Morrissey releases album of Prussian Blue covers. "Clearly ironic/whimsical/nah nah not listening" claim ILMers.

Prussian Blue are just nostalgic for an era when Jews _were_ in gas chambers, they're not saying that they'd like to go back to that time. God, listen to the lyrics in context.

Prussian Blue are just trolling black people duh.

England is a memory now. Other countries have held on to their basic identity, yet it seems to me that England was thrown away

http://images.scotsman.com/2002/05/05/0505bnpb.jpg

London Bee Enn Pea head in "gay porn film" hilarity

Sheila take a, sheila take a bow
Throw your homework onto the fire
Come out and find the one that you love
Come out and find the one you love

http://ict.org.il/var/119/52807-Nazi_Book_Burning.jpg

Man, the only reason to get involved with the BNP is for the whole D/S scene.

said Morrissey exclusively in the NME this week.

http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/mitfords.jpg

Some girls are bigger than others

I'd let the Mitford sisters kristal my nacht any time they want, hey guyz?

Dood, it's that whole Posh Women Be Dirty thang again.

We should have a poll on which other celebrities could come out with "I hate immigration" and have ILMers falling over themselves to defend him.

My vote = Kylie.

Burial

paris hilton

oh, wait.

cheryl cole

oh, wait

That dude from Savage Garden

Maybe more of a Poptimists thing, that.

I feel a Pole coming on.

Roald Dahl S/D

Thing is, I was listening to George Formby the other day, and nobody's gonna trump him for racists-who-made-the-best-music

From what I understand, for all the comedy Chinese stereotypes he made money off of, George's politics were pretty forward thinking.

Formby >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Morrissey

^^^4-4-2

I read this in Sainsbury's last night. There wasn't much to it. Mozzer's comments indefensible really, but at the same time I can't be arsed being bothered about them. Meanwhile, a few pages later is a full page advert announcing the fact that Mozzer's Roundhouse residency has sold out.

I liked the bit in the interview about how because of the internet, everyone's a reporter nowadays. I mean, who on earth is he talking about?

But the change in England is so rapid compared to the change in any other country. If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent

Funnily enough, he wouldn't have heard one in his own house when he was growing up as both his parents were IRISH and IMMIGRANTS. Fucking dickhead.

Next week in NME: Zucchero moans about the dilution of Italian culture by shit indie expats from the UK.

I mean, at least Ray Davies still lives in Britain! He can boohoo about penny farthings, chimbley sweeps and powdered eggs from day-to-day experience.

Also when he goes to America he gets shot so this may colour his opinion of abroad.

Racist?
Bengali In Platforms - questionable, I put it down to bad phrasing myself.
National Front Disco - no
Asian Rut - no, but arguably quite naieve.
Did anyone see Andrew Collins pop up on the SOTCAA forum? He basically said the whole Morrissey = racist thing was the result of a slow news day and a misjudged gesture by Moz himself...

-- DG, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

Andrew Collins and SOTCAA = the kind of British culture we must do our utmost to save

I find them quaint and amusing. But they are a memory now.

SOTCAA was the only kind of British culture worth saving.

Some of the Patos Are Amusing

Well put.

Perhaps Morrissey is hoping England could be more like, say, France, where they preserve their national identity by putting all the immigrants where no one can see them? That works really well.

TBF you can't move on French radio for Hip Hop tho.

Most of it about how shit it is being black in France.

Somebody needs to break into his kitchen and see if he has a Ronaldinho bottle opener. That would clear up straight away whether he's racist or not.

Perhaps Morrissey is hoping England could be more like, say, France, where they preserve their national identity by putting all the immigrants where no one can see them?

You mean in the French national football team?

Saying "immigrants are diluting our culture" kinda clears up whether he's racist or not.

You mean in the French national football team?

Elephant in room.

World Cups and Euro Championships in trophy cabinet

In my country, immigrants are diluting our culture. For the better.

Please pass judgement on me asap, kthx.

1p3 is not a country
the noise board are not immigrants

I say arrest Noizers and send them where they came from. 1p3 for the 1p3ers!