Morrissey is a racist

"Defending the recent controversy roused by performing his covers while wearing a pro-Brexit “For Britain” badge, political artist Morrissey recently insisted that"

It is not a "pro-Brexit" badge, it's a "pro-racism" badge. Nice try though Armand.

describing 'national front disco' as 'uniquely stirring' is some god-tier trolling

In his open support for the party For Britain , (which seems to have caused the most controversy in recent years) Morrissey has explained his admiration for the party leader's (Anne Marie Water) vegan lifestyle and huge dedication to animal protection.

want to vote for a party with a vegetarian leader? at the last uk general election, you had jeremy corbyn, tim farron and jonathan bartley to choose from and the last of whom is i think now vegan. the green party had explicit animal welfare policies in their manifesto. the labour party have a vegan mp (kerry mccarthy). pretending that amw is a lone voice for animals in uk politics is total bollocks

There was some Animal Welfare party dropping leaflets 'round my area and they were explicitly anti-Brexit because they believe animal rights legislation will suffer w/o EU restrictions.

yes, that too

i dunno guys, i get this horrible nagging feeling that morrissey might actually be a little bit racist

and also that his stance against non-vegetarians is subject to negotiations: Dave Bowie got a black look, TommyYargMcSweeney gets a mild shake of head.

milkshake on the head surely?

doesn't sound like Morrissey, no.

a milkshake on the head
well, a nation turns its back and gags

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but there was a BBC Four documentary on recently which was examining fandom/tribalism etc. in music since rock'n'roll began. Eventually the subject turned to The Smiths and how they touched those who felt like outsiders or marginalised, and two incredibly devoted Smiths/Morrissey fans were interviewed and showed off their collection of memorabilia. One was a black woman who found inspiration in The Smiths and moved to Manchester and decided to aspire to university even though she initially didn't feel capable of it. Another guy was of Asian descent and showed off his setlists/pictures of him with Morrissey/autographs etc.

I'm guessing that this was filmed quite some time back, so the issue of Morrissey's racism wasn't touched upon, but I wouldn't be surprised if these fans felt more than a little crushed or even betrayed by Morrissey's post-2004 actions.

Or maybe they'd find some way to justify it.

We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

You're the One for Me, Fatty

Everyone Ultimately Prefers Their Own Race

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) June 26, 2019

Asked by Rayner why he has not sued The Guardian, who were among the titles to publish critical articles about him in the aftermath, Morrissey said: “As a so-called entertainer, I have no human rights… apparently… because you put yourself ‘out there’. If I were a postman I would have won a Harassment Case against The Guardian and been awarded 10 million pounds in damages by now.”

Later, he added: “The Guardian have pestered and relentlessly harassed musicians in my life urging them not to work with me again[…] In these days of casual knife crime and hurling of acid, you’d expect The Guardian to maintain a certain careful morality. But no. If I suffered physical harm as a direct result of the Guardian’s tyranny, you can imagine cheers and champagne exploding through their offices… it chills the blood. The Guardian fully believes it is a political party.”

Just because you're paranoid...

“As a so-called entertainer, I have no human rights… apparently… because you put yourself ‘out there’. If I were a postman I would have won a Harassment Case against The Guardian and been awarded 10 million pounds in damages by now.”

a so-called entertainer

otm

"as an entertainer, I have no human rights"

*lawyer whispers urgently in his ear*

"as a SO-CALLED entertainer, i have" etc

sing this inna Morrissey Smiths stylee and it actually works

If I were a postman
I would have won a Harassment Case against The Guardian
And been awarded 10 million pounds in damages by now

and if a champagne bottle
exploded in the offices of the guardian
to die by your side
....

(To the intro of Speedway)

And when you SLAM down the champagne...can you hear the Guardian cheer?
All human rights keeping me protected - they don’t apply, don’t apply
To so-called enterTAINers

racism can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to

on the nose I know, but..

I am glad you started there rather than at "racism is nice but"

moz has sided with the bomb

Interpol’s Paul Banks on Touring With Morrissey: “A Good Show for Our Band”

No, Paul. No.

“That’s how I’m looking at it. I don’t get too much into the other stuff.”

https://pitchfork.com/news/interpol-paul-banks-on-touring-with-morrissey-a-good-show-for-our-band/

Morrissey is a racist and this Interpol guy is a fucking dimwit.

no one tell wcc

re: moz ,,,,,, that joke isn't funny anymore

that jerk isn't funny anymore

Looked up the old "should Morrissey have Pj Harvey supporting him?" controversy and found some guy being racist on the thread
https://www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/p-j-harvey-fox-hunting-bitch.37392/

well my day is worse for reading that

Read bits of this too, I'm too lazy to read the whole thing
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/02/today-thoughts-for-the-day-pj-harvey-bbc-assange-pilger

Billy Bragg is on your side
But you lose
Cause Interpol is on mine

https://i.imgur.com/gvT2KBv.jpg

Stolen from facebook. Not a real single (or quote)

chapeau to whoever knocked that together

Morrissey hasn't let himself go yet

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/views-on-morrissey/

When I listen to a beloved song – Neil Young’s ‘On the Beach’, for instance – I feel, at my very core, that that song is speaking to me and to me alone, that I have taken possession of that song exclusively

Haha no kidding - you rereleased it as Higgs Boson Blues...

Wild that Nick did Cosmic Dancer live recently. I would love to have been there to hear that.

What a pompous narcissist he sounds in that blog entry.

The weirdest/funniest thing about this Morrissey thing is how he keeps saying worse and worse things, in contexts where he has more and more control (i.e. getting interview for his own site by his own bloody nephew), and then he just denies/seems oblivious to what he's said. How can someone say something like "Everyone prefers their own race" - as basic as racist statements get - and then come out harrumphing and threatening to sue when he's called out on it?

I think Morrissey's views do change his songs of the past, now that we know they were written from the point of view of a racist.

How Soon Is Now, for example, is about a guy not able to pull cos he's a racist. An incel anthem, if you think about it. https://t.co/TKp7h5aIex

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) June 29, 2019

Now when I think of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want, I realise now it's written from the point of view of a teary eyed racist incel, bubbling cos he's not racist but.

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) June 29, 2019

What a twist. I've said it before, but it's like The Sixth Sense. I want to listen to the songs all over again from this fresh perspective.

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) June 29, 2019

Whatever inanities he may postulate

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My takeaway from that is that Nick Cave blog post is that he's encouraging people to pirate Morrissey's music.

Xpost mark s that is a really great piece

thx dude :)

yeah that's really good

Those songs were always expressing the pov of an isolated misanthrope, who knows he turns people off. That their author is a racist, which was clear enough to me since I first bought an album titled Viva Hate and heard the song titled "Bengali in Platforms", doesn't change their meaning that much for me.

I read it some time ago and want to join the chorus of praise for Mark's piece.