The article, 'Mining Metal,' emphasizes the relationship between emerging non-mainstream metal music and socio-political concerns. It reflects on how music nourishes emotions tied to joy, rage, and despair, asserting that these feelings are integral to the art created during tumultuous times. The authors highlight various political actions they view as fascist, particularly against marginalized communities, while linking them to historical parallels with Nazi actions. By citing specific instances of political oppression and control, the writers argue for the importance of recognizing and addressing these systemic issues in artistic contexts, particularly within the metal genre.
Art in these periods retains its worth by that nourishing, a connection not just to joy but to rage and despair and every ugly thing we might otherwise keep down.
The stated use of the Parental Kidnapping Act to punish parents fleeing to sanctuary states to seek aid for their children is fascist.
Elon Musk threw a sieg heil. I am autistic too; I can confirm that we aren't stupid and we know what the most rightly reviled gesture in modern Western history is.
The anti-porn law tabled in Oklahoma is fascism, an attempt to legally create a category of 'degeneracy,' a purely Nazi concept.
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