One perspective on the heckler

The human condition isn’t black and white, but human sexes are, unless someone was born intersex, the only exception that I can see from a scientific standpoint. Calling Bradford a white (from a sociological standpoint) male (from a scientific standpoint) does not translate as mocking his identity. I’m a serious person and don’t see him or anyone else as a joke by their essence. I can call myself a cat and everyone can play along to make me feel better, but at the end of the day, when you compare cat DNA with my DNA I won’t register as the same species. I’m looking at him as an individual human, not as representing some stereotype.

You’re clearly unaware that cultural appropriation, by definition, is focusing on the aesthetics of a culture as being of greater value than its content, the actual purpose of the aesthetics themselves. To refute this as a problem is to co-sign cultural appropriation. Anyone can be susceptible to appropriating, so bringing up black fans of Morrissey and etc. is irrelevant. Bradford’s music is often whiny and while that may be therapeutic for him to create (good for his wellbeing to express in song), it encourages ingratitude in life to dwell in numerous, depressive Deerhunter songs put out, like “Game of Diamonds,” “Dr. Glass,” “Never Stops,” “Operation,” and so on. I may no longer be a fan of most Deerhunter and Atlas Sound songs, but that doesn’t mean I’m no longer a fan of Bradford as a human among other humans in this world. If you are too a fan of Bradford as a human, you’d care for his wellbeing even to the point of noting at least some of the troubling lyrics of many songs of his, past the aesthetics.

/r/deerhunter Thread Parent