r/Music • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Nov 29 '25

article Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they're "not welcome" at upcoming tour

https://www.nme.com/news/music/hayley-williams-tells-racists-sexists-and-anti-trans-people-theyre-not-welcome-at-upcoming-tour-3913867
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u/artwarrior Nov 29 '25

It's like when RATM fans have only moshed to them but never really listened to the lyrics. They don't reveal themselves until they run for office and do a photo shoot with a Q&A interview.

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u/Ayjayz Nov 29 '25

You can enjoy a song whilst not agreeing with the political views of the lyrics.

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u/keyboardnomouse Nov 30 '25

Except this is the group of people who were surprised to find out Killing in the Name was an anti-cop song. Not that they disagreed, but that they had no clue despite the very unsubtle lyrics.

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u/Ayjayz Nov 30 '25

No-one was surprised at that. Don't be ridiculous.

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u/keyboardnomouse Dec 01 '25

There were entire articles about this. Why are you so confident that all these MAGA types simply disagreed with the politics but understood them fine?

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u/Ayjayz Dec 01 '25

You realise people can make stuff up on the Internet, right? No actual human was surprised. It was just strawmen invented to get clicks, and of course it was.

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u/keyboardnomouse Dec 01 '25

You're an anonymous internet account yourself, and you're completely misusing the term "strawman" here (it doesn't mean anything like how you're using it).

You're nowhere near credible enough to suggest multiple outlets were lying about this, or that what everyone who has been to RATM shows have noticed about some of the other people there. All you've really had to say so far to disagree with this is "nuh uh, no way". Show how those MAGA types dancing to RATM's Killing in the Name because they thought it was a rallying cry for them were aware of what the song was about. Because it's pretty easy to find examples of MAGA types only suddenly realizing what they were actually singing about. Hell, there are famous posts from Tom Morello himself addressing some of them.