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"Became" fascist
“Reggae, for example, is to me the most racist music in the entire world. It's an absolute total glorification of black supremacy... I don’t have very cast iron opinions on black music other than black modern music which I detest. I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful. I hate all those records in the Top 40 – Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston. I think they’re vile in the extreme... Obviously to get on Top Of The Pops these days, one has to be, by law, black” -Morrissey, 1986
Nick Cave mostly sings about sexual violence, killing women, treating them as sex objects. There's also his weird lyrics about "homos" and that one song where the narrator murders an f-slur because it was so shameful to do drugs and fuck a man.
Yeah, obviously in hindsight they always were, but they could maintain plausible deniability by hiding behind their public personas as liberal darlings in an age before social media. I can't believe the shit Morrissey used to get away with saying back then. Just an absolutely vile bigot who got a pass because of his "quirky, depressed gay man" image.
Yeah Morrissey was wild. That man called Chinese people a "subspecies," like pure white supremacism, and people still mostly just talked about the vegan thing.