Interesting POV. I'm a Jamaican American who grew up on Charlie Pride and Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Tammy, Dolly, Willie and many more singing country music in the 60s and 70s and into the 80s and 90s..
I wonder why you feel that people are accusing country music lovers of being racists? Was it the massive backlash by a certain faction of country music fans who didn't want Lil Nas X, hit song on the country charts?
Is it those particular fans who are turning against Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton and other country stars for standing up for the freedom of people to be who they want to be are openly hostile to other Americans?
We are all in our narrative bubbles. It's part of being human. Some folks aren't prepared to admit that and face objective shared reality once in a while because their identity is wrapped up in being right 100% of the time.
They build entire media industries around those bubbles to protect themselves from being exposed to stuff that may conflict with their ideas.
The myth of the liberal media was concocted at a time when right wing media outlet were struggling to find a profitable way to broadcast their ideological point of view in markets other than AM radio.
Cable and the Internet has made it far more profitable for conservatives to promote their bubble to a wider audience.
The oligarchs who own and control the media outlets have never been Lefties. That's a myth that has died on the vine decades ago.
Why is the current conservative position to deny objective reality? This seems to be a recent phenomenon. I used to watch Firing Line back in the day.
William F. Buckley Jr.'s show had guests from a variety of POVs and focused on what was actually happening in the world. Conservatives would come prepared with their perspectives and solutions to real issues.
There was never a need to invent calamities for entertainment or stir up outrage. They lived in the same world I did and as a young Lefty Libertarian, I could understand Buckley's assertions and ideas as a different POV that stemmed from our shared realities.
I miss that.
You are welcome to your POV.
However, I could just as easily blame right-wing media for the Balkanization of our country as well as the concerted effort by think tanks to gut our colleges and universities of the freedom to explore education without hardline ideology.
But I'm open to healthy debate with some actual facts and figures because that's how we grow as individuals.
It's basically a matter of accepting that people of different stripes can have differing opinions and still coexist in their love and acceptance of many cultures.
Including country music; old and new.
It's ok to come out of our bubbles and look at the world from other points of view. That's called emotional maturity.
