I don’t like being told what I can and what I can’t say. Why can black people go up to each other and say, ‘nigger,’ but when a white guy does it all of a sudden it’s a big put-down? I don’t like boundaries of any kind. Speaking to Del James of Rolling Stone, he said, “I used words like police and niggers because you’re not allowed to use the word nigger. We all know where such prejudice, such hatred and loathing of the outsider ends up just ask Sophie Lancaster…Īxl’s defence was predictable. A song covered by Ian Donaldson, the goose-stepping frontman of neo-Nazi band, Skrewdriver, for Christ’s sake. For men and women judged, picked on and sneered at for their long-hair, tattoos and studs, accused of Satanism, records containing backward messages inducing suicide and the moral collapse of western civilisation. After all, empathy for the downtrodden should be second nature to people hassled by cops, bosses and mainstream society. Naive, too, maybe, was the belief that the rock and metal community was more tolerant, inclusive and humane.
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