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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Mar 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Annette Gordon-Reed, FBA

    Exactly right. "Brown Sugar" is both peak Rolling Stones and also completely vile. Art can be both great and terrible at the same time.https://twitter.com/agordonreed/status/1107378581817090048 …

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    Annette Gordon-Reed, FBAVerified account @agordonreed
    I will concede that Mick and the boys were playing the hell out of those instruments on “Brown Sugar”, but the lyrics are so reprehensible that I read recently that they are uncomfortable about them. Blasted the song here at the park before the game started. Yikes!
    8:01 AM - 18 Mar 2019
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      1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 18 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        "it should be possible to say, ‘This is a good book or a good picture, and it ought to be burned by the public hangman.’ Unless one can say that, at least in imagination, one is shirking the implications of the fact that an artist is also a citizen and a human being."

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      2. Nick‏ @The_Beermonger 18 Mar 2019
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        And that vileness being part of the appeal, as the Stones were always marketed as the "nastier", "bad boy" Brit group in comparison to the Beatles. (Sorry: I grew up in a divided home--mom was a Beatles fan, dad a Stones fan--and I continue to have thoughts)

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      3. jms‏ @malthusian_trap 18 Mar 2019
        Replying to @The_Beermonger @HeerJeet

        The song isn't celebrating the protagonist.

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      1. Juan Ramón Vallarino‏ @JRVJ71 18 Mar 2019
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        Times change.

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      2. Deskjob‏ @StuartKatz3 18 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It is great and it is vile, but probably about as vile as Stray Cat Blues. Also not as peak as Gimme Shelter or Sympathy for the Devil or Street Fighting Man or Honky Tonk Woman ...

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      3. James Dunbar‏ @semajrabnud 18 Mar 2019
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        or Under My Thumb

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      2. Jack Hamilton‏Verified account @jack_hamilton 18 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        i wrote a book about that song https://www.amazon.com/Just-around-Midnight-Racial-Imagination/dp/0674416597/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1552921704&sr=1-1-catcorr …

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Mar 2019
        Replying to @jack_hamilton

        That looks really interesting. Will check it out.

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      1. "Leges sine moribus vanae" Andy Barnett‏ @hof1991 18 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Just watched Elton John play Indian Sunset, a particularly racist bit of tripe with a great percussion solo. His set list on the goodbye tour also includes "All the Young Girl Love Alice", where Alice is either being trafficked or serial abused. It's not just the bad boys.

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      1. Pastafarians for Zelenskyy  🇺🇦‏ @BePastafarian 18 Mar 2019
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        Is “Brown Sugar” the only non-PC Rolling Stones song? “Under My Thumb” doesn’t work so well either.

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