Grindcore

Hello, I’m the new guy around here. I was reading the old GRINDCORE.org posts (and I liked the one about politics), and came across a few comments by some posters here while asking myself: Why are all of these kids in the grindcore scene always whining about racists and homophobes like they’re a sign of a mental epidemic?

I was curious. Being the open-minded kind of guy that I am, I decided to check out some of the racist, misogynist and homophobic music we can find under the “grindcore” label:

So I came to this conclusion: It’s just as shitty, if not shittier than your run-of-the-mill leftist/vegan/antifa grindcore. I doubt anyone takes it seriously, and if they do, they should probably reconsider their lives.

Why? Because they don’t actually believe in what they’re saying, and they fail to realize that your political opinions matter less than your music. Otherwise the belief in their opinion would shine through in the music, and it might be a little bit good…

A lot of people like to make bands to play shows and entertain people, but they don’t take the music seriously at all. They probably don’t know shit about music. If you want to entertain people, making shocking, offensive noise is the next best thing to do in terms of entertaining people, next to actually making thought-out songs.

Now, they’ve already pushed sonic offensiveness to the extreme, now they need to be ideologically offensive in order to get shows from audiences of tough guys who think their political opinions matter outside the realm of actual politics. (HEY, this applies just as much to vegan antifa grindcore as it does racist nazi grindcore!)

Now, I ask, why are extremist right wing ideology and prejudice statements so offensive? It’s really dumb, at best. But hardly offensive.

The next time you get offended like a fundie Christian would get offended at the notion of evolution, take a step back and THINK about whether you’ve been brainwashed, and whether you should roll your eyes and laugh instead of bitching and moaning!

It’s just like you’re going out of your way to destroy every little ant in the world after you found an ant trail going into your bag of organic banana chips in the cupboard.

Don’t be such a fundie Christian and get hung up on a person who acts like a nazi. Or whatever you think is a nazi or some other adjective.

Relax, roll your eyes and keep on spreading good ideas!