{"id":2054227,"date":"2023-10-03T17:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-melted-down-over-these-oliver-anthony-lyrics-heres-why-frederick-douglass-would-have-approved\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:58:56","slug":"libs-melted-down-over-these-oliver-anthony-lyrics-heres-why-frederick-douglass-would-have-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-melted-down-over-these-oliver-anthony-lyrics-heres-why-frederick-douglass-would-have-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Libs outraged by Oliver Anthony lyrics; Frederick Douglass would approve."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flibs-melted-down-over-these-oliver-anthony-lyrics-heres-why-frederick-douglass-would-have-approved%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2054227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Libs Melted \u200cDown Over These Oliver Anthony Lyrics: Here&#8217;s Why \u2062Frederick Douglass Would Have Approved<\/h2>\n<p>Oliver\u200b Anthony\u2019s viral working-class anthem \u201cRich Men North of\u200b Richmond\u201d has resonated with listeners across\u2064 the globe.<\/p>\n<p>But liberals live to take offense at things, and\u2062 so they have. Predictably, liberal writers found fault with a part of Anthony\u2019s lyrics that criticized\u2064 abuses in the welfare system.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals, as usual, have it wrong, and the great 19th-century \u200babolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass\u2062 explained why.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Anthony\u2019s offending lyrics appeared in the hit song\u2019s second stanza.<\/h3>\n<p><em>Lord, we got folks in \u2062the \u2063street, ain\u2019t got nothin\u2019 to eat<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reviewers-blown-away-after-hearing-rich-men-north-of-richmond-for-the-first-time-he-spoke-facts\/\" title=\"Reviewers amazed by 'Rich Men North of Richmond': 'He spoke truth'\">obese milkin\u2019 welfare<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well god, if you\u2019re 5 foot 3 and you\u2019re 300 pounds<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some viewers may find offensive.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/twitter-liberals-post-deranged-photo-ivanka-trump-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liberals<\/a>, of course, never miss an opportunity to parade their moral vanity.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Cantor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/aug\/16\/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> jumped on the \u201cfudge rounds\u201d line and\u2062 chastised Anthony for \u201cpunching down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe supposed welfare abuse sounds like a rightwing talking point, and Anthony doesn\u2019t appear to have considered that the nefarious fudge rounds might be feeding the very people he mentioned with\u200b nothing to eat,\u201d Cantor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor accused\u200b Anthony of \u201cmocking the poorest\u2064 of the poor\u201d and adopted the tone of a liberal scold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/weather-ruins-festival-oliver-anthony-teams-musicians-give-fans-epic-parking-lot-surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony<\/a> wants to keep moving upward, he should aim his punches in the \u200dsame direction,\u201d Cantor concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Cyrus Coron of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/i-grew-food-stamps-oliver-anthony-punching-down-opinion-1822810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> treated us to \u2063even more self-righteous \u2063drivel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSexism and classism is a two \u200bcourse meal served only to working poor women, the lowest \u200crung on our societal\u200b ladder,\u201d Coron wailed.<\/p>\n<p>Coron explained that he grew up on food stamps, which he now seems to regard as a license to embellish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood stamps are nothing more than Americans investing in Americans. It\u2019s called \u2062taking care of your own. I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re thick\u200d or thin\u2014I just want you fed,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Without making even the slightest uncharitable comment, we may safely say that 300-pound\u200b people qualify as \u201cfed.\u201d Clearly, then, Coron missed Anthony\u2019s meaning.<\/p>\n<p>That did not stop Coron \u200cfrom once again mounting the liberal hobby horse of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senator-reads-filthy-gender-queer-book-found-schools-author-confirms-never-meant-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve\u2062 seen the women around me battle obesity all my life. It\u2019s \u2064not because they\u2019re\u200d lazy \u2063or nihilistically self-indulgent, as Anthony implies \u2063in\u2063 his song. It\u2019s because they\u2019re poor,\u201d Coron wrote.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Anthony never mentioned sex. Coron himself smuggled the image of a\u2062 diminutive, 300-pound <em>woman<\/em> into the song.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals, of course, project their own biases onto others.<\/p>\n<p>But the problem here runs even\u200c deeper.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, \u200cCantor and\u2063 Coron leapt to the defense of people whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oliver-anthony-concert-canceled-furious-singer-sees-ticket-prices-pull-off-side-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony<\/a> never slighted. Nothing in those lyrics or in the song\u2019s context would support the\u2062 conclusion that Anthony mocked anyone but the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore,\u200d when Cantor and Coron defended the 300-pound consumer of junk food at public expense, they clearly had no idea the \u2062kind of people with whom they had aligned themselves.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate, let\u200d us turn to Christmastime on an antebellum Southern plantation.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Life_and_Times_of_Frederick_Douglass_(1892)\/Chapter_18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 18<\/a> of his 1892 autobiography, \u201cLife and Times of Frederick Douglass,\u201d the former slave-turned-abolitionist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-melted-down-over-these-oliver-anthony-lyrics-heres-why-frederick-douglass-would-have-approved\/\" title=\"Libs outraged by Oliver Anthony lyrics; Frederick Douglass would approve.\">civil-rights leader explained<\/a> how slaveholders used the holidays to reinforce the slave\u2019s dependence on his or her master or mistress.<\/p>\n<p>During the week between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/refreshing-twist-hollywood-puts-jesus-center-christmas-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas<\/a> \u200cand \u200bNew Year\u2019s, slaves enjoyed freedom\u2062 from labor. Masters and mistresses showered them with gifts and encouraged them to \u200cenjoy their week of relative, temporary liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, masters and mistresses \u2063did not want their slaves to \u2063spend the week engaged in anything like self-improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA slave who would work during the holidays was thought by his master undeserving of holidays,\u201d Douglass wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, slaveholders preferred a\u200d debauched slave to an ambitious one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything like rational enjoyment was frowned upon, and only those \u200dwild and low sports peculiar to semi-civilized people were \u200cencouraged,\u201d Douglass \u200cwrote.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, slaveholders wanted to see their slaves drunk and despising themselves afterward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have known slaveholders resort to cunning\u2063 tricks, with a view of\u2063 getting their slaves deplorably drunk,\u201d Douglass wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhole multitudes might be found stretched out in brutal drunkenness, at once helpless and disgusting,\u201d he added. \u201cThus, when \u200dthe slave \u200casked for hours of \u2018virtuous liberty,\u2019 \u2064his cunning master \u200dtook advantage of his ignorance and cheered him\u2063 with\u200c a dose of vicious and \u2063revolting dissipation artfully labeled with the name of \u2018<em>liberty<\/em>.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Douglass\u2019 memories of the plantation at Christmastime allow us to construct an analogy.<\/p>\n<p>To begin, we \u200bknow that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/slavery-investigation-backfires-mainstream-media-every-living-president-except-trump-descended-slaveholders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slaveholders<\/a> who plied their slaves with liquor did not have the slaves\u2019 interests in\u200d mind.<\/p>\n<p>When we feed junk food to 300-pound people on public assistance, we clearly do\u2064 not have their interests in \u2064mind.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the\u200c connection.<\/p>\n<p>Even as a slave, Douglass\u200b secretly taught \u2063himself to read.\u200b Then, \u2062as a young man, he escaped slavery. So he learned that the world\u200c offered something better than \u2062Christmastime on the plantation.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, adopted by \u2064millions as the \u2062voice of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-football-analogy-to-explain-democrats-election-cheating\/\" title=\"A Football Analogy to Explain Democrats' Election Cheating\">working class<\/a>, also knows that something better than \u2062degrading dependence exists.<\/p>\n<p>Slaves like Douglass who wanted to \u2062improve themselves became suspect in slaveholders\u2019\u200c eyes. \u200bOnly a debauched slave \u2062could remain mentally enslaved.<\/p>\n<p>Douglass never once blamed\u2063 the slaves for their plight. But he did recognize that\u200c even within the context \u200dof slavery \u200dhe and his debauched fellow slaves had made choices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oliver-anthony-probably-already-fbi-whistleblower-edward-snowden-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony<\/a> came closer \u200cto blaming \u2064welfare recipients because, after \u200ball, they are \u2063not slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The point, however, has nothing to do with blame.<\/p>\n<p>When Douglass tells a fellow slave that drinking will do him no good, and a slaveholder counters by insisting that the \u200bslave indulge in alcohol so as to relieve the cares of toil, of which advice to we approve?<\/p>\n<p>In\u2062 like manner, when Anthony calls out the abuses of a welfare system that keeps people \u200bdependent, and liberals then accuse Anthony of bashing the welfare recipient, what might \u200cwe say about the liberals\u2019 motives?<\/p>\n<p>From their respective positions, Douglass and\u2064 Anthony bemoaned the effect of debauchery on the oppressed\u2063 or downtrodden.<\/p>\n<p>Slaveholders regarded Douglass\u2019 view as suspect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nhl-announces-major-change-next-season-backlash-liberals-will-hate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liberals<\/a> regard Anthony\u2019s message as \u2063suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062poor and brutalized do not always recognize their true friends. But when they learn the truth, as Douglass did, they \u200cnever forget it.<\/p>\n<p>Small wonder\u200d Anthony\u2019s song has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oliver-anthony-john-rich-hold-1-spots-itunes-charts-beating-taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resonated<\/a> \u200cwith millions\u2062 who know the truth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A Note from Our Founder:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every morning, we at The Western Journal wake up and pursue our mission of giving you the \u200dimportant information you need about what\u2019s happening in America.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>We can\u2019t do that without your help<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">America has been on the receiving end of false narratives. 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Brown<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Founder of The \u2062Western Journal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/libs-melted-oliver-anthony-lyrics-frederick-douglass-approved\/\">Libs Melted Down Over These Oliver Anthony Lyrics: Here&#8217;s Why Frederick Douglass \u2064Would \u200cHave Approved<\/a> appeared first \u2062on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u200c In what \u2062ways do Anthony&#8217;s \u2062lyrics challenge the powerful and institutions that\u2062 perpetuate inequality and marginalization<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Www.britannica.com\/event\/Christmas&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>Christmas and New\u2064 Year\u2019s<\/a>, Douglass\u2064 wrote, slaveholders would provide their \u2064slaves with an abundance\u200c of food and\u200b spirits, allowing them to indulge in gluttony and revelry.\u200c This\u2064 temporary period of plenty was a deliberate tactic \u2063to keep the slaves beholden to\u200d their masters, both\u2062 physically and mentally.<\/p>\n<p>Douglass recounted how the slaves \u2063would stuff themselves with food \u2063and \u2064gorge on sweets, giving them a taste of luxury they could never attain on their own.\u2062 Meanwhile, \u200btheir masters would watch and \u200brevel\u2062 in their\u2064 power and control over these enslaved individuals, knowing that once the holiday season was over, the slaves would return to their lives\u2064 of deprivation and subjugation.<\/p>\n<p>Douglass concluded that this tactic was a deeply calculated \u2062form\u200d of \u200bmanipulation, designed to keep the slaves docile and \u2064subservient.<\/p>\n<p>So, \u200bwhen Anthony \u2064sings \u2062about 300-pound individuals receiving welfare for their \u201cbags of\u200b fudge rounds,\u201d he \u200bis not mocking or chastising\u2063 the poor. Rather, he is calling attention to the systemic abuses in the welfare system that keep people trapped in cycles of \u200cdependency and \u2063prevent them\u2062 from achieving true economic \u2062independence.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, like Douglass, is criticizing the powerful and the institutions that \u2064perpetuate inequality and marginalization. He is speaking out against a\u200d system that treats the poor as objects to be controlled and manipulated, rather\u2062 than individuals with agency and potential.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony\u2019s lyrics \u200dmay be provocative and controversial, but they are certainly not mocking the poor. Those who interpret his words as such are completely missing the point and,\u200b in doing\u200b so, perpetuating the \u2062very systems of oppression \u2063that Anthony\u2063 is criticizing.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the fact that Cantor and Coron align themselves with those who exploit the poor and perpetuate\u2063 inequality\u2064 speaks volumes\u200b about their own biases and ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick Douglass, a champion of \u200dfreedom\u200d and equality, would have undoubtedly recognized and appreciated Anthony\u2019s critique of the welfare system. \u2062He understood the insidious ways in which power operates and recognized the importance of using art and music to challenge and dismantle oppressive systems.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than melting \u200ddown over Anthony\u2019s lyrics, liberals should take a step back and reflect\u200d on the larger message he is conveying. They should listen\u200b to the voices\u200d of those who\u200c have experienced poverty and oppression firsthand, rather\u200c than attempting to speak\u200c for\u2064 them.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Anthony\u2019s anthem may \u200chave ruffled some feathers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Anthony&#8217;s viral anthem &#8220;Rich Men North of Richmond&#8221; struck a chord worldwide. However, liberals, always quick to take offense, found fault with his lyrics criticizing welfare system abuses. 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