venessian
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No need to get to moralistic, man.Oh for goodness sake. So what if he doesn't support interminable lockdowns and has concerns over the future of live music?
Interesting that the second he doesn't toe the party line the cancel culture brigade on Twitter are digging out drug-addled comments he made nearly half a century ago. Comments that he has repeatedly apologized for.
I asked if the comments were true...I meant especially the "Keep Britain White" comments, which shocked me. (And I don't gaf about "cancel culture".)
It turned out he did make those comments, and I find his "apology", far too many convenient years later (I just listened to it, see below), actually just as insulting, referring to "Eric" in the third person, etc. Is it really apologizing when one says, "Yeah, but...". The guy is smarter than that, I thought.
And then trotting out "cancel culture" references is now so tedious too, isn't it, when used to defend asinine comments made by a very public figure, an icon, regardless of the age and/or drug situation of the guy. Many other people, in similar positions and situations, never said something as crass and idiotic as "Keep _____ White." Of course, many others have, indeed, and moreso recently, and so racism persists and mutates apace, tacitly supported also by weak and insincere mea culpas and defenses such as these.
"Here’s what Clapton said that night on stage (Birmingham, 1976):
'...I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared. “Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. ******* wogs, man. ******* Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and ******* Jamaicans and ******* … don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want ******* wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for ****’s sake?...' ”
He said that, man, out loud, in public, on stage. At a music concert, not a political rally. And then in semi-apologizing semi-defending he says "I think it's funny", in 2018 still? Wow.