Bob McDaniel wrote:
> I should make it clear at the beginning that, in my mind, the term "rappers"
> has no special significance beyond being associated with an extreme form of
> antiestablishment behaviour. I simply lump them with others in what I term
> the "protest genre".
And lumping them together with 'others' is precisely the mistake.
Violence against weaker persons is NOT "antiestablishment behaviour".
> I did not claim that rappers are "challenging the system" but rather that
> they may be conditioning young people (maybe others, too) to challenge
> corporate dogma. That is, by creating an outrageously antiestablishment
> climate of violence
How is this climate of violence "outrageously antiestablishment" ?
On the contrary, this violence is anti-solidarity.
Chris