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Hella People Think Jason Aldean’s New Country Song is a Dog Whistle

#trumptrump#smalltown#dogwhistle#boar#racist
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0:00 so yeah he says um full of good old boys raised up right Trump trump Trump trump Trump trump Trump trump [Laughter] [Music] so have you guys heard what about a guy named Jason Aldean oh that is my dude Jason yeah he's a country music singer oh okay this is why this is why is he the the the small town guy to try that in the small town guy is he gay is he the gay one what I don't think that he's gay have you guys seen the uh like real the real country singer battles nah my feet is weird so they've been having these battles between gay country singers and like and then they'll be like we're in the bus

0:50 and then I was like oh you're not gay enough and then you're like I'ma suck a dick and behind a cactus whatever and I'm just like and they're just both gay battling their country songs Back and Forth I agree your feet is weird Jason Aldean he just did a song called try that in a small town and it is getting like ████ lit up in the media like they're basically saying it's a dog whistle for all kinds of racism try that in a small try that in a small town so I'm gonna read you some of the lyrics and you guys tell me if this is completely ████ up and racist trying to add in a small time sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk carjack an old lady at a red light pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store you think it's cool we'll act a fool if you like and yeah is spelled y a and not y-o-u because it's a country music song okay cuss out a cop spit in his face stomp on

1:40 the flag and light it up yeah you think you're tough we'll try that in a small town see how far you make it down the road around here we take care of our own you cross that line it won't take long for you to find out I recommend you don't try that in a small town that actually sounds like a really nice place to live yeah oh my that sounds so safe I want to go to a small town now wait are they saying that this is racist it's coded racist dog whistles so there's no small towns that are non-white that protect each other and I know like that's racist that's racist to think like application like that it's racist carjack an old lady that only white people I didn't think like protect each other just because a white guy's singing There's places there's small towns in Hawaii that have no white people that all ████ watch each other

2:31 yup and then like they're like the ████ are they talking about it actually internationally makes sense there's small islands in the Philippines that have this sentiment there's small towns in Tennessee that are all La ocean and they have this bro they're small towns in L.A well la is a collection of cities right but I remember in our block like it didn't matter if you're Asia Mexican or whatever you watch each other's back and if somebody comes in your neighborhood and they look like they're about to tag or do something you're like where the ████ you from like yeah that's normal it's true because it is a that that's what makes it funny the implication of racism is hilarious because like another white person on the left will see this and go to a black dude and go dude that's ████ up that he's talking about you that's the only thing that to start why do you think that's me because the blasters could be from South Central and he could be like my small town will do this exactly Jack ████

3:22 that Grandma's car everyone in this ████ town would like they will ████ you up what the ████ but it is true that like when they say that crimes like that are higher in urban cities or bigger cities that's ████ true yeah because there's more pizza man it's different you know yeah it's not like race-based it's just bigger cities people don't watch each other's back as much but it is if you're saying it's race-based yeah yeah yeah yeah but that's not what he's saying I think it's just because it's country and it's a white guy doing it yeah they're just thinking like oh he's talking about black people like that's what they're thinking yeah yeah well now that you guys hung yourselves I'll read the rest of the lyrics

4:16 Fried Chicken I think he gets into like cooking dogs and ████ yeah it's like wait what so yeah he says um full of good old boys raised up right Trump trump Trump trump Trump trump [Laughter] so it's sick so is it is it a is it a build up like EDM song yeah I don't know if that's how it's emphasizing song I haven't heard the song but I think it's like that I think I read something where like sung or so people were pissed after the music video because of the imagery with the words and then oh they're mad at the music video the the imagery because he

5:07 shows Riot footage he was showing them oh well I need to see it just so happened at the moment what the the lyrics he was saying and it was matching with a bunch of black folks doing you know protests writing whatever so it's like I think that's where they're like oh they're that's why they're like he was talking about I see yeah here's the uh here's the music video I'm not gonna play this on obviously or we'll get wrecked oh that looked like January 6 dude where's the tiki torches at where's the dude with a raccoon hat oh it did if he got that guy yeah the shaman oh there's no Asian hay footage I feel left out man yeah we should put some Asian I want some like Asian grandmas getting beat up or something

5:57 it's funny because who wouldn't want to live in the town that he painted in this it sounds awesome who wouldn't want that why why do we not want that it sounds like ████ Toontown a Disneyland I mean this video is very topical say that I I saw more white women that they were depicting more than anything else so far yeah there was a white lady run yelling at a cop there was a white lady and dancing in front of cops yeah now there's great lady with her ████ pointing at a cop yeah it's always the point we're in a trucker hat we're an all black All Blacks I mean so far it's 90 performance you know another thing too is um they were saying that they did this performance in front of a courthouse that has some type of civil rights or

6:49 significance to something along the lines so we have to really dig to find the race no I forgot what dog whistle it's a dogwood it was like it was where they got segregation or one of those things like um you know disbanded or whatever and then I saw a great I don't know some guy on Twitter posted basically like he actually just read some rap lyrics where it's like I'm gonna ████ your mom and I'll kill you I'm gonna even kill you yeah yeah and it's like that's not really a dog whistle that's like pretty on the nose it's pretty much the same what you're gonna do these rappers are trying to have sex with my girlfriend all the time and they want to cuck me really bad yeah dude did you see that like weird debate about the this other chant called kill the boar what's that you're talking about it's not the yeah South Africa

7:39 yeah and it's like they're saying that that's like an opposite on the opposite of the spectrum to that where kill the boys like it it makes it seem like they're telling you to kill like the white people in South Africa oh that's what the boar means I guess that's what it's implicating but then the on the the same side that's calling that races is calling kill the boar not racist yeah that's so weird that's so strange I'm gonna butcher this but translated to shoot the boar or kill the boar is a controversial South African song and the idea behind it is that it's they're talking about white like white people or white um rich white people I know they had a I know they had a diameter they they had like a weird genocidal problem or whatever where a lot of white farmers were getting

8:29 um yeah that's a different story Yeah by different gangs and stuff to just take their land the guy was just murdered that way yeah just happened this week yeah it's crazy man but it's funny that the same side that could call This Racist can also unracist that song which is like or that chant they do and it's like come on man I think the ████ up part about all of this is like there's it's just the back and forth like Vengeance thing is like justification through oh this happened to my people and then they're going oh well you're doing this to our people and in whatever group you are like they're all justifying the violence or whatever saying like well we can and say this and do this because it happened to so and so or whatever and I'm like all across the board there should just be a straight up standard of like you probably don't want to ████ justify

9:19 any violence I just wish that they would just tell me what happened and then I could make up my own mind but they don't they don't do that like this killed you mean like the news like is is just creating they tell you what to think like this kill the board thing they say this is why it's not this and but you should just tell me where it is yeah so it's a it they're like it's an anti-apartheid South African struggle song Cool tell me that yeah tell me that that's it but you don't have to say this is why it's not racist it's like well we're broke and that's like the headline yeah that's the first thing yeah so no no so no news is new I mean everything's an opinion piece right there's no news anymore think about the snark of every single everything that we hear that's controversial they say no comma this isn't what happened and it's like you can just tell me what happened yeah that's just but that you're violating click bait rules though that's what makes BuzzFeed BuzzFeed but that's what

10:09 I figured it too but yeah mainstream media is left by default like why why can't people think it's institutions based like colleges and ████ like that like it's super institutionalized why do you have to dig so deep to find the opposite side like that's kind of weird just be non-partisan yeah would that be easier too as like a news media but it doesn't get the job done that's the problem well if you're too balanced and like not extreme enough you you're probably just uninteresting yeah that's that's what it's looked at as now right yeah Chris Center you're right it's a it's a good song it's a good song and it's giving good examples of good ████ they're not telling you to do anything bad it's just hey like look at this life isn't this objectively nice yeah I actually want to live in a small town and live in a simpler life I like that I like knowing who the the grocery

11:00 store person is like dope that's my ████ dream yeah it's ████ stupid and everybody tries to simulate that within their own pocket it is it's a goal that everyone already has yeah I want to know my neighbors and watch out for each other and then like I would like a place where hey if there's a robbery going down we all go and help yeah everyone stops it instead of being like Oh I don't want to get sued oh like in this big city there's dude I think there's you you treat humans less human it just happens hell yeah it happens since I've been walking my dogs more I got to know all the neighbors and all the other dog walkers and my block and it's like it's a cool feeling to be like hey what's up good to see you how's everything like you know yeah just chatting some ████ on like a on a Monday morning like it's not because I don't think this is like a race thing I think there's a clear difference between

11:50 country living and City living yeah and all over the world city people are ████ ████ and country people are just kind Souls yeah but also City people don't give each other the chance to find out if you're an ████ or not City people just mind their own business and they it's like there's a wall all the time yeah yeah but I think I think it makes sense because you have to be because in the city has tons of people you get burned way more yeah there's angrier people there's just a lot of existence it's just harder to know everybody people will assume that you don't like them already or they'll assume that they don't like you it's like ████ weird I don't like country music straight up I don't like it

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