At this point I think the Right does this simply to get more publicity.
Pick an artist you know will call you out, and then use their music. When the band says they aren’t Right Wing it’s just more coverage. Even better, people will associate the movement with the music either way.
Alot of that shit is just bait to get free advertising, to eventually sell you some shit
If the neo-nazis knew anything about Depeche, they would know how much they are hated by them.
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To begin with, they would need to know the concept of consent to worry about being hated by them.
That looked like a nasty elbow for a nasty guy.
Adopting leftist music by perverting its meaning is pretty much the M.O. of far-right anthems/songs, no matter what the song was about originally. See: Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Fortunate son (to a milder extent), Born in the U.S.A as some of more well-known English examples.
I wonder if this was an attempt at doing precisely that, or was it just some publicity stunt for the movement.
they usually misinterpret the meaning especially if it is used in a movie or they assume most agree with them
Everything the far-right uses is stolen. Libertarian used to be synonymous with anarchist till they stole it. Hell they even went after anarchism directly when the invented the walking contraduction “anarcho-capitalism.” Every neo-nazi symbol is some cultural symbol they stole. Stealing stuff so others can’t use it is the far-right’s favorite pass-time.
Imagine if someone picked Joy Division.
Sadly, this happened with Pink Floyd and the Hammerskins, who were inspired by the neo-nazi sequence of The Wall
Meaning I don’t get to make references to Run Like Hell or Follow the Worms when someone gets carried away puttin’ on the Reich. Nope they appropriated that culture.
Dude. Just because they try doesn’t mean we have to let them.
Roger Waters is one of the world’s foremost anti-fascist pro-BDS artists and that sequence in The Wall was NOT intended as complimentary 🤦
So you’re saying I should resume using the original material to mock fascists, neo-nazis and, well, the transnational white power movement that has control of the federal government of the United States
…Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall…In the right contexts, sure. Just because it’s not UNIVERSALLY useful now doesn’t mean that it’s become useless forever.
