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Archae

(46,327 posts)
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:19 PM Apr 2016

Beyonce sure scares the shit out of the right-wingers, doesn't she?

Why can't she be a Christian one-hit wonder has-been like Debbie Boone?

The 10 Craziest Right-Wing Attacks On Beyoncé

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 4/28/2016 1:55 pm

Following the release of Beyoncé’s new album “Lemonade,” far-right commentators went on the attack. For years, the singer has drawn the ire of conservatives from Mike Huckabee to Alex Jones, who have responded to her music with bizarre conspiracy theories and irrational anger. In honor of Beyoncé’s new album, we’ve collected 10 of the Right’s craziest attacks on her.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/10-craziest-right-wing-attacks-beyonc#sthash.gfWRQV4w.dpuf

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Beyonce sure scares the shit out of the right-wingers, doesn't she? (Original Post) Archae Apr 2016 OP
She's having a funny at their expense - and making money doing it JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #1
That's awesome. HuckleB Apr 2016 #3
It's amazing. HuckleB Apr 2016 #2
Let's see... ReRe Apr 2016 #4
Very bizarre and not just a little paranoid and just plain crazy . . . Journeyman Apr 2016 #5
Strong women will do that to week minded people. all american girl Apr 2016 #6
People that have a mind that lasts only a week? Archae Apr 2016 #8
Damn, sometimes I'm just a goof...can't even blame it on auto-correct. all american girl Apr 2016 #9
I love funny typos... Archae Apr 2016 #10
As if I needed another reason to love her. KamaAina Apr 2016 #7

JustAnotherGen

(31,823 posts)
1. She's having a funny at their expense - and making money doing it
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:34 PM
Apr 2016

Enjoy!

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/news/companies/beyonce-boycott-formation/



Beyonce selling 'Boycott Beyonce' shirts


by Lisa Respers France @CNNMoney

The singer is very cleverly selling "Boycott Beyonce" merchandise on her Formation tour. It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to an earlier controversy over her Super Bowl performance and "Formation" music video.

In February Beyonce dropped the music video for her single "Formation," and it included a reference to the Black Lives Matters movement. She followed that by including backup dancers dressed in Black Panther-esque outfits during her Super Bowl halftime show.

Some police unions viewed the show as being anti-police and asked their members not to provide off-duty security for her stadium tour.


Beyoncé is selling these T-shirts with the phrase #BoycottBeyonce in the #FormationWorldTour. pic.twitter.com/hVKSayxEJH
— Beyoncé Family (@BeyonceFamily) April 27, 2016


ReRe

(10,597 posts)
4. Let's see...
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:54 PM
Apr 2016

... I'll take a million Beyonces over that bunch of crazy demons, any old day. Seriously... did anyone actually click the link and read their vicious rants against Beyonce? We need to take everyone of those SOBs and throw their butts in prison and throw away the key. How's that for an opinion? Also, they don't like the ARTs either. Basically, they are a group of disgruntled old misogynists.

Journeyman

(15,031 posts)
5. Very bizarre and not just a little paranoid and just plain crazy . . .
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:54 PM
Apr 2016

All I read were the subheads. I don't have a surfeit of life, so I parcel my attention as will benefit me.

I just don't understand the need to develop such elaborate rationales for disliking an artist's work. All they're doing is preaching to the choir (as it were) and won't influence any new opinions in their readers.

Myself, I'm not moved by her music. I could go into details, but they're irrelevant. I prefer other musicians, other types of music. If other people are moved or inspired by her art, then they've found something in it that speaks to them. I hope they are able to act upon the emotions and issues which she touches on in her work, and find therein either satisfaction or inspiration in their own lives. I'm not about to try to inject myself or my opinions into another person's taste in music to try and change them. I could discuss the music I enjoy, and how it moves me, but I'd do that by heaping praise on it, not by heaping dung or insults on someone else.

Why is this simple concept so alien to such a small but quite vocal slice of America?

Archae

(46,327 posts)
10. I love funny typos...
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:41 PM
Apr 2016

A guy I know and I, like to notice when we make funny typos in our e-mails, like the time he asked me about the "batroom."

But the king of typos was on the old Fidonet, a guy named Goldberg who made so many typos typing 300 words per second, (the guy was extremely bright and tore up fundies something fierce,) we had "Glodbregs."

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