Is Redban an emo fan?

[Pheurton Skeurto]

I don't think he's acting like an emo fan in that thread, I would use a word that starts with r to describe that thread

[Pheurton Skeurto]

I don't think he's acting like an emo fan in that thread, I would use a word that starts with r to describe that thread

Not liking hip hop is no more racist than not liking K-pop is. Some people just don't like sounds of certain types of music. Not everyone is going to like emoviolence either.

Saying that hip hop culture "promotes crime and violence" is 100% a racist dogwhistle, it's like saying listening to emoviolence will make you want to commit mass shootings.

[Pheurton Skeurto]

I don't think he's acting like an emo fan in that thread, I would use a word that starts with r to describe that thread

Not liking hip hop is no more racist than not liking K-pop is. Some people just don't like sounds of certain types of music. Not everyone is going to like emoviolence either.

Saying that hip hop culture "promotes crime and violence" is 100% a racist dogwhistle, it's like saying listening to emoviolence will make you want to commit mass shootings.

90s gangsta rap (the type I'm most familiar with because that's what was popular in my [almost entirely white] high school) definitely DOES glorify those things. I can't think of any emoviolence songs glorifying mass shootings, or that are even about that topic at all come to think of it.

A song being about something =/= a song glorifying something. I've listened to plenty of deathcore and death metal (I know, not your favorite) in my day but I have never even so much as had an inkling to commit violence. I've heard Cannibal Corpse songs about mass murder, Acacia Strain songs about violent nihilism, and yes, even plenty of gangsta rap, and have never wanted to harm another human being. It is reductive as hell to say that any kind of music is to blame for someone having violent tendencies.

I've also listened to my share of bands like Saetia ("there is no happy here"), Circle Takes The Square ("hold the knife closer, just 9 more steps towards the gate"), iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook ("I will commit suicide at the very peak of our desperate love so it will never get the chance to weaken or fade"), etc that have lyrics that are very depressive and deal with topics like self-harm and I have never physically self-harmed. I have never felt that self-harm is glorified by these songs either.