Was/Is Morrissey Racist?

is he ill

he's been ill since 1985

ill with racism

shit I'd no idea.....respect for him making great music all through this dreadful affliction.

Robbie Keane's cousin yknow

being an egocentric waster living off decades-gone glory days must run in the family

i don't even think that about Morrissey i just wanted to get the Robbie Keane joke in tbh

shit we need a 'like' button

hearing reports in that he's been found racist at his home :(

says he might have been racist for some time before neighbours checked on him

:-( racist in peace

is he still ill?

not the onion:

http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/01/morrissey-tsa-worse-than-isis/

as fuck

Better or worse than the Dawkins Honey Incident?

Better or worse than this?

"At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone."

and then they changed at Bank station for the Charing cross branch of the Northern line.

Morrissey's Meltdown 2015

This comes not long after the bizarre episode in which Morrissey made a big fuss about Universal refusing to rerelease 2009 single I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris ("in support of the victims of the recent atrocities"), then releasing an email exchange between his servant Boz Boorer and a Universal lawyer that made him look even more desperate than usual ("Any other artist would be number 1 with this song RIGHT NOW").

Massive record company in "appropriate reply to artist" shocker.

I'm not defending the 'Moz, but "it is unlikely that ISIS would stoop so low” is a pretty far cry from "TSA is worse than ISIS!" I think the comment was pretty clearly meant to be an exaggeration. This is more an example of yellow journalism (I'm sorry, "click-bait") than of any insensitivity on Morrissey's part imo

I kind of wish he would just go on an another hiatus and stop posting to True To You, shit's getting beyond embarrassing. Shame as last year's album was kinda great

If Morrissey is suggesting that ISIS is unlikely to give someone an intimate pat down before sending them through a metal detector/body scanner, he is probably right.

Thom Yorkes comments comparing YouTube to the Nazis was way worse, imo. Don't see many people giving him shit for that though.

The only references I saw to Yorke's comments were Facebook threads giving him tons and tons of shit

fuck the TSA

"Oh.. in America
The land of the free, they said
And of opportunity
In a just and a truthful way
But where the president
Is never black, female or gay
And until that day
You've got nothing to say to me
To help me believe"

Can’t say I’m surprised, but still fucking disappointing.

Just Morrissey there, wearing an actual fucking For Britain badge pic.twitter.com/A33h1GunYq

— Fergal Kinney (@fergal_41) May 8, 2019

that's anne marie waters mob yes?

This isn't news surely, he's been openly supporting AMW for years.

Indeed.

every time he’s in the news these days I always hope the headline includes “found dead” rather than “ranting about Muslims” or whatever he’s decided he does now.

i always hope it will be be 'vocals removed from smiths albums', would love instrumental versions of those tbh

he's been saying massively racist things for the last few years, openly supporting violent far right morons and people still ignore it - was particularly surprised to see people from various american bands on his new covers album. the excuse 'we don't understand british politics - sounds complicated?' doesnt really cut it - it doesn't take long to look this shit up. you wouldn't be working on a new bob mould album if he was a proud boy, so maybe do some research.

yeah no he's always been racist sorry: https://www.patreon.com/posts/other-jacksons-18720007

every time he’s in the news these days I always hope the headline includes “found dead” rather than “ranting about Muslims” or whatever he’s decided he does now.

― gyac, Thursday, May 9, 2019 6:09 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classy

morrissey is going to live a long and ever-more-vile life

I love how Morrissey has always thrown around the word 'vile' to describe non-white culture, like nobody is allowed to challenge him on any appalling opinion so long as he expresses it in the style of Quentin Crisp.

we got this sorted

"found dead" is a bit harsh, "faces life imprisonment" is better.

"is finally ignored" best

I like the thread title's candid suggestion that Morrissey may once have been racist but is no longer.

can't still be racist when you've been found dead tbf

"is finally ignored" best

― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, May 9, 2019 7:28 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

death is much more realistic

I know, have you seen his waistline?

was particularly surprised to see people from various american bands on his new covers album

Yep. Interpol touring with him as well. This is one thing I miss now that music journalism has mostly been flushed down the toilet, just having someone ask some of these bands WTF they are doing.

I know, have you seen his waistline?

but it's vegan girth

classy

congrats

https://www.stereogum.com/2043584/morrissey-supports-right-wing-extremist-group-while-performing-on-the-tonight-show/video/

Imagine splintering off from UKIP because they're not racist enough!

This remains relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/08/how-to-treat-morrissey-stop-listening-to-him-stewart-lee

https://www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrommorrissey/i-ve-been-dreaming-of-a-time-when-the-english-are-sick-to-death-of-labour-and-tories

he posted this message a year ago endorsing For Britain while denying that they're racist or fascist and proclaiming he 'would do anything for his muslim friends', totally incoherent. can't tell if he's truly deluded enough to believe that or whether he's just a little ashamed of being racist in the sort of way that ones weird vaguely racist uncle who proclaims "i'm not racist but..." is etc.