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Sometimes I hate being white bc holy fuck why are so many white people this fucking fragile
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Anonymous 2w

“Hey, you know something people? I’m not Black, but there’s a whole lotta times I wish I could say I’m not white” -Frank Zappa

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I kind of just internally separate myself from people like that. Not on racial lines, like I don’t think I’m not white just because I’m woke, but like you know what I mean? Like I just don’t feel like they’re people the way you or I am, their insecurity makes them like, another thing.

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Anonymous replying to -> mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Nah I do, just holy shit sometimes it’s crazy how much of a victim complex some people have

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

It’s vile and embarrassing fr

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

he says this in the song “Trouble Every Day”

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

I like Frank Zappa

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Anonymous replying to -> mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Yeah he was a cool dude, he called the GOP “theocratic fascists” on national TV all the way back when Reagan was their guy

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Wasn’t he also a bit of a libertarian wacko too or am I thinking of someone else?

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Anonymous replying to -> mushy.the.mushroom 2w

What’s interesting about Zappa to me in this conversation in particular is that on “Trouble Every Day” his views on race are presented kinda this hippie “why can’t we all just get along” idea that I can’t really get down with, but later songs of his like “Uncle Remus” are much more actively pro-Black so clearly he changed his beliefs for the better in the early 1970s

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

He was extremely socially libertarian, and yeah he was kind of a wacky guy as far as politics go, but I never said he was a political genius lmao, only a musical one with the occasionally salient political point.

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Yea he wasn’t always perfect that’s for sure, a little late to the party perhaps. But it’s good he shifted to something a bit more militantly pro black

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Also Joe’s garage is hilarious and great. Totally out of left field but I love that album with my whole heart

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Anonymous replying to -> mushy.the.mushroom 2w

There were few songs quite as fun to me as My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama when I was a teenager, and Hot Rats is a fucking MASTERPIECE like holy shit

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

You will eventually meet someone utterly obsessed with Zappa who treats him as some sort of messiah, and that kind of Zappa guy is very annoying and usually a whacked out libertarian type, but most people who like him just think he’s a silly guy who was also a genre-bending musical genius.

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