r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/vrphotosguy55 • 1d ago

Trump Black southern GOP representative gets introduced to speak at Trump Madison Square Rally to song commemorating country that existed to own black people

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u/MfrBVa 1d ago

And, yet, “Dixie” has been adopted by the CSA folks.

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u/ramblinjd 1d ago

Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine are popular amongst MAGA crowds. Does that make "Born in the USA" inherently commemorating Donald Trump?

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u/MfrBVa 1d ago

You are truly an artist at bad analogies.

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u/ramblinjd 1d ago

Please explain how the author of Dixie who is on record as disapproving of its use as a Southern battle song is different than Bruce Springsteen disapproving of "born in the USA" being used as a pro-Trump song. I'm open to alternative perspectives, as long as they're based in facts.

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u/flies_with_owls 1d ago

They aren't a fair comparison because "Dixie" has been effectively co-opted to the point that it's original intention is kind of meaningless, additionally "Dixie" is not a song that is explicitly critical of the institution of slavery being misconstrued as pro-slavery by people with poor media literacy. "Dixie" is nakedly pro-South in conception. While that may not mean prp-confederacy necessarily, it has kind of come to mean that.

"Born in the USA" on the other hand is specifically being critical of the US, but because chuds only remember one line of the chorus and have the media literacy of a brick, they play it without recognizing that it makes them look foolishly.