Thread by @JohnnyFirecloud

My Instagram comments are being removed, reported for engaging with the nazi bootlicking plankton who adore Phil Anselmo, unable to move past their favorite confederate-flag-waving band in middle school. He screams white power & throws nazi salutes onstage. @Revolvermag loves it.

As fascism + white nationalism skyrocket in America, NOW is the time for a Pantera reunion? That aint coincidence. The timing is perfect for a #whitepower #nazi uprising. Now allllll those #swastika tattoos you see in the pit at @5FingerDeathP shows have somewhere else to go.

Watch it for yourself. As Robb Flynn said in his response to this hateful shit (he was there that night), “if you aren’t offended by that, fuck you. FUCK. YOU.”

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The bullshit chardonnay excuse doesnt extend back to 2001 where #PhilAnselmo is throwing nazi salutes and screaming WHITEPOWER at a #Pantera show.

Every @Revolvermag post about Phil (there are countless, they're sycophants) is PACKED with halfwit plankton defending a clearly obvious virulent racist. You will not change them. But I won't ever turn the other cheek to the shameless cancer of racial hatred.

The heavy metal community shields & excuses racists, habitually. Even Corey Taylor knows racism is a huge problem in metal, rooted in a national legacy of hatred that's been passed down and encouraged (and not just among the proudly uneducated). nme.com/news/music/sli…

Scott Ian from Anthrax called out Phil's nazi bullshit, but a donation to a Jewish center is like throwing a handful of sand at the beach. Makes no fucking difference. Excommunication & LOUD conversation about weeding out racism in metal is what's needed.
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We know that won't happen. Because moral complacency + sharply poignant nostalgia for a time when everything didn't seem hopelessly fucked = an avalanche of $$$ & influence opportunities.
It's a guaranteed high-level victory lap for #Pantera.
Doesn't that seem a little weird?

In 2022, amidst a flood of behavioral condemnations on a spectrum from Chappelle to JK Rowling, purged of Columbus Day & torn down confederate statues, we're about to see all major music publications promote & celebrate a man who screams WHITE POWER while nazi saluting onstage.

The luxury of complacency escapes me.
I have 3 kids.
Thousands of my followers are music lovers, this topic affects most of you.
Yet speaking out against what's quite clearly a fire growing out of control in America seems to be a step too far for most.
What WILL you fight for?

The saying goes: "If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you've got a table with 11 Nazis.”
There is no room to debate or "both sides" this ideology. There is historical evidence proving the urgency with which we need to stomp this out.

When you sit with a Nazi, you confirm that they’re a member of society. They’re not. They don’t deserve to be. They should know their hatreds make them unfit to be around decent people.
Not fucking celebrated.
Phil Anselmo has done this MULTIPLE times.
Silence is complicity.