Andrew Cuomo vs. metal music

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Reading BRTD's posts in this thread I feel like I've stepped into a parallel universe where Glittertind doesn't exist. I don't like it here.

I'm also surprised that BRTD is unfamiliar with bands like Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden, or if he is, that he doesn't know that they can be classified as metal. They may not be his cup of tea, but they're a far cry from the violent skinhead neo-Nazi black metal stereotype that he traffics in.

Luckily I have no problem listening to any bands I like because I know they are completely pure of all reactionary thoughts, and that no member is infected by attitudes of racism, heterosexism, sexism and gender oppression, or any form of non-progressive thought.

I'm sure that's false, and requiring or even being interested in that degree of perceived ideological purity is honestly pretty weird.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Well one is considered one of the most influential industrial rock acts ever and was covered by Johnny Cash, the other was pretty clearly part of the grunge scene.

Amazingly, definitions of music genres are sufficiently subjective that bands can work in a few different genres at once and not everybody feels the need to impose minutely detailed Borgesian taxonomies on them to decide which one descriptor is most accurate.

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Uh-huh, see, the issue is that thought patterns (and hence 'non-progressive thought') really can't be reduced to lists of policy positions, and the sensibility that they can be consciously analyzed and rejected in the same way as policy positions leaves a lot to be desired, psychologically speaking.