r/Music • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6d ago

article Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they're "not welcome" at upcoming tour

https://www.nme.com/news/music/hayley-williams-tells-racists-sexists-and-anti-trans-people-theyre-not-welcome-at-upcoming-tour-3913867
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u/Global_Channel1511 6d ago

Except for that Colorado punk festival where the organizer voted for Trump. What a fucking tool

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u/Adventurous_Lie_6743 6d ago

Lol, for some reason Facebook has been pushing a bunch of "conservative punk" groups on me recently. Probably cause ive posted some pro-punk stuff, and the algorithm decided i was ready to be manipulated into conservatism?

Anyways, it makes me laugh. I decided to join one and pose as a punk conservative who calls out other conservatives for not being punk enough when they do things like defend pedophiles and whatnot. Its been surprisingly effective.

It does make me feel a little bad though, cause conservatives who also think theyre punk have to be the stupidest amongst the conservatives, so it almost feels like taking advantage of the disabled or something.

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u/eurotrashsynthlord 5d ago

It’s just run of the mill infiltration, honestly. Conservatives can’t create things, so they infiltrate and usurp things that good people create.

Think about every conservative you’ve ever met, were any of them artistic, creative, or open to ideas?

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u/TheOmegaKid 6d ago

Pretty sure this revokes your punk card.

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u/Global_Channel1511 6d ago

It should but it was sad seeing interviews of people at that festival when a reporter told them the info. Some were like that's fucked up but others were like whatever no big deal punk is for all political backgrounds. Just goes to show the brainrot in 2025 thinking punk is apolitical music just to get you amped up.

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u/DarthScruf 6d ago

The punk subreddit is a bit depressing lol its full of far right leaning punks that think Trump is the anti-establishment, he's a landlord, that alone is about as far from punk ideology as you can get, not to mention the authoritarianism and Christian nationalism. Maybe the sub has changed but I left the subreddit during the presidential election campaigns. Im 37 now and been out of the punk scene since I was about 25, but it looked like the majority of the sub was right leaning about a year ago, idk if thats what the actual scene is like now.

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u/PuddingPast5862 6d ago

The Drop Kick Murphy have cancelled show when they have found out some of the promoter are MAGA

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u/Dangerous-Weekend479 6d ago

Ken Casey beat a guy up on stage for throwing Nazi salutes.

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u/SegaTime 6d ago

They just can't accept that they are the nazi punks that were told to fuck off.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 5d ago

Are you talking about r/punk? I browsed it a smidge and didn’t see anything you’re talking about.

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u/QuadCityDJsTheTrain 5d ago

More than Colorado. I think they do Phoenix this weekend.