EXTREMISM The Far Right Turns on 'Rich Men North of Richmond' Singer for Touting Diversity [View all]

EXTREMISM The Far Right Turns on 'Rich Men North of Richmond' Singer for Touting Diversity
EXTREMISM
The Far Right Turns on ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Singer for Touting Diversity
SELLIN’ MY SOUL
Justin Baragona
Senior Media Reporter
Updated Aug. 24, 2023 7:35PM EDT Published Aug. 24, 2023 3:57PM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-far-right-turns-on-oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-for-touting-diversity?ref=home

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What a strange journey it’s been for Oliver Anthony, the former factory worker who suddenly found himself atop the Billboard Hot 100 after his breakout “Rich Men North of Richmond” was boosted online by right-wing media and prominent conservatives.

After first facing backlash over his folksy country ballad’s reactionary lyrics conjuring up Reagan-era imagery of “welfare queens,” and launching an entire news cycle around the song’s overnight success, Anthony now finds himself in the crosshairs of the extreme right.

Why? Because he had the audacity to tout diversity. In other words: Anthony is now experiencing a reverse milkshake duck.

This isn’t quite as simple, however, as the shift of criticism from left to right following Anthony’s latest comments. This recent uproar over the singer’s self-described “centrist” politics features alt-right trolls and unapologetically racist commentators taking aim at “establishment” conservatives for supposedly pushing a “conservafraud” to peddle “ethonocide narratives” from the Jewish elite.

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Applegrove

White Nationalist/White Spremacists are now feigning some sick kind of "morality" with their hate and deciding for the MAGAs what is acceptable. That is the real story here.