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The surviving Baby Boomer counterculture heroes are either keeping very quiet or having brief outbursts while noting that the country has gone insane… before issuing scripted apologies pleading for everyone to forgive them for noticing that the country has gone insane.
Now the time has come for Jan Wenner, the Rolling Stone co-founder that people last paid attention to in the 1980s back before the magazine had come to consist of 90% Trump rants and 10% interviews with elderly celebrity pals. And so matters would have remained if Wenner, his ego so bloated that he doesn’t seem to have noticed the cultural weather outside, decided to freely spout off.
In the interview, he spoke about his decision to not include interviews with women and black artists, and his remarks on the topic were widely criticized.
“The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them,” he said, adding “Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”
He continued, “Stevie Wonder, genius, right? I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”
“For public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism,” he told the outlet. “Maybe I’m old-fashioned and I don’t give a (expletive) or whatever.”
It turns out that he does give an expletive after issuing an apology and being kicked off the board for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Earlier this year, Rolling Stone published an article titled, “Why Cancel Culture Is Good for Democracy”.
Does Wenner still agree? Does he agree that, “Those who fear cancel culture may claim they fear suppression of speech, but it’s accountability that they want to avoid”?
Canceling others is great… until you get canceled.
Ha ha HAW! He looks like a troll. Good riddance.
That reminded me, the last time I had a paper copy of Rolling Stone in my hand was in 1967, reading it while flying back home to California. I thought it was cool back then (young and stupid me 🙂
If you didn’t have one back then, you had no heart. If you have one today, you have no brain.
In 2012 I picked up a copy to read while I was waiting to donate blood at a Red Cross blood center. I put it down upon reading an article that claimed that if Romney was elected, he would do to the U.S. what the Republicans had done to Detroit. What!?!?!? Republicans Detroit. Detroit hadn’t had a Republican mayor in about half a century, probably didn’t have one on the City Council or in any elected office. What did in Detroit was its population and a series of incompetent kleptocratic Dem mayors. But the Rolling Stone author found the cause of Detroit’s awful decline – Republicans. Haven’t read it since.
Honestly, he kinda sounded like he needed to be cancelled, the neanderthal…but such is the way of the lefty; create the sword and advocate it’s use, while believing to be impervious to it’s blade. Is that the definition of karmic justice?
Yeah, that’s a big part of it, based on the stupid things I used to advocate, which came back to bite me 🙂
well, he is an aging queen, so he just wants to interview men.
This kind usually rots from the inside first.
Rolling Stone has come way too far left and is going in circles the same way Time and Newsweek have been going
Imagine being cancelled by the folks you put in power? It seems that is always the result, ask Robespierre.(after 60% of readers look him up.) I grew up with the child of a Chilean who helped install the dictator. The same Dictator who later had him thrown out of a heliocopter over the Pacific! (Luckily there was a US Destroyer 2′ below him, “to cushion his fall”.) And the beat goes on.
Pinochet? He actually improved Chile after that scummy socialist Allende nearly destroyed it, but being thrown out of a helicopter sounds unpleasant.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eOHXz4ju_nQQbfj4M1c6JKc_Ac7PcT0j/view?usp=sharing
I subscribed to ROLLING STONE and then they fired their one conservative writer (P. J. O’Rourke) and then I got sick of their regular climate-change hysteria and then came their notorious crap 2014 frat-house-rape story “A Rape on Campus” that had been partly plagiarized from a fictional T.V. show! (ROLLING STONE’s contribution to the believe-all-women movement; yeah believe even in fiction.) And then I stopped renewing.
(Years ago Ringo Starr was on the “Tonight Show” and the host pulled out the new issue of ROLLING STONE with Ringo on the cover. Ringo said, “I like the cover. I’m not crazy about the magazine.” I liked Ringo even more after that.)