"Antifascism,” communism, and other radical left wing ideologies have been increasingly promoted within the metal community since about 2013, when a number of popular metal journalists began gushing over the antics of Antifa and even started promoting their violence"
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"This affection culminated in an Antifa-themed concert dubbed “Black Flags Over Brooklyn” which was booked by Teen Vogue journalist Kim Kelly in January of 2019 and featured a bill full of artists who have called for violence against civilians with right wing political views."
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"Kelly herself is openly an Antifa member and has been retweeted by Dayton shooter. Despite the extreme agenda, nearly every left wing indie metal site rushed to glorify this event, including MetalSucks, Metal Injection, and Invisible Oranges"
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"Furthermore, several mainstream music outlets also gave glowing press to the concert including Rolling Stone, Vice Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, and Kerrang Magazine"
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"Connor’s language, as indicated by numerous tweets, has been similar to that of many of these journalists and the bands they promote. Betts has called to “Kill every Fascist” and retweeted a number of tweets advocating right wingers to be burglarized and physically assaulted"
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"Because of activist/social justice warrior journalists, this rhetoric is has become dominant within the underground metal community"
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"It’s worth noting that the nine murders committed by Betts in last weekend’s atrocity have made him the first mass murderer in the history of heavy metal musicians"
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"It is not “death metal,” “black metal,” or “goregrind” that has most radicalized and desensitized Betts, but the extremist ideology of a fairly the new metal micro genre known as “Antifascist metal” which is also sometimes called “Red Anarchist Black Metal.”
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Red flag supporter Jack
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Great article.. thank you
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