{"id":565779,"date":"2021-06-16T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565779"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:37:27","slug":"nashville-composer-blacklisted-for-condemning-arson-during-black-lives-matter-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nashville-composer-blacklisted-for-condemning-arson-during-black-lives-matter-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Composer Blacklisted For Condemning Arson During Black Lives Matter Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fnashville-composer-blacklisted-for-condemning-arson-during-black-lives-matter-riots%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=565779&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-183305123-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A once up-and-coming musician has been canceled because he used his social media accounts to condemn arson after Black Lives Matter rioters set fire to a historic building near his home in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Reason\u2019s Robby Soave <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/06\/15\/daniel-elder-cancel-culture-choral-composer-antifa-blm-gia\/\">reported<\/a> on the case of Daniel Elder, a 34-year-old musician who was just beginning what looked to be a promising career, including awards and a debut commercial album. But on May 30, 2020, that all changed when protests in Nashville following the police-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd turned violent. Activists broke windows and threw rocks at police cars. The courthouse was set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Elder was \u201cspooked,\u201d Soave wrote, since the courthouse was near where he lived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDismayed, disenchanted, and unable to sleep, Elder decided to deleted his Instagram account. He penned one last farewell message, which was cross-posted to his Twitter and professional Facebook page: \u2018Enjoy burning it all down, you well-intentioned, blind people. I\u2019m done,\u2019\u201d Soave wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As Soave noted, Elder didn\u2019t malign Black Lives Matter or black people, he simply called out the people who were setting fires. In this particular case, the person who set the fire was white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sentiments are not racist; in fact, they are correct. Social science research and voter surveys\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/08\/27\/protests-violence-david-shor-kenosha-biden-trump\/\">show that violent and destructive protests tend to backfire<\/a>, eroding support for the cause in question. While a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2020\/08\/27\/906642178\/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting\">small number<\/a>\u00a0of far-left agitators support these tactics, the overwhelming majority of people oppose looting, riots, and arson. That is especially true of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/4\/21278048\/civil-disobedience-looting-vandalism\">those who live in communities of color<\/a>,\u201d Soave wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The morning after Elder published the post, he saw comments on his social media pages calling him a racist and \u201cwhite supremacist piece of garbage.\u201d He also received nasty emails and notes from people who said they would never again listen to his music.<\/p>\n<p>Within a single day, the backlash to Elder\u2019s innocuous tweet caught the attention of GIA Publications, the premier publisher of religious music. GIA published Elder\u2019s music, but on June 1 contacted him to ask he apologize for his Instagram post. The apology was written by GIA and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><em>Over the weekend I made a post on my social media accounts that was insensitive and wrongly-worded. I deeply apologize for the anger, offense, and harm that this post caused. While this offense was not intended, it is what was created. For this I am truly sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is no justification that I can offer for my post. So, rather than try to offer an excuse for what was done, I offer a promise for what I will do going forward. I commit to making amends and to dialogue. I commit to continue educating myself about privilege and bias. I commit to continue seeking an understanding of the experience of others, especially the Black community. I know that working for justice requires that we each first act justly. My work begins now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elder, who is himself left-leaning, refused to issue the pre-written apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose to be that guy who didn\u2019t issue the apology,\u201d Elder told Reason. \u201cThings went from there and it wasn\u2019t good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because he refused to repost their apology, GIA released a statement condemning Elder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe views expressed in composer Daniel Elder\u2019s incendiary social media post on Sunday evening do not reflect the values of GIA or our employees,\u201d GIA said. \u201cGIA opposes racism in all its forms and is committed to do what Michelle Obama called \u2018the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it would no longer publish Elder. Because of this, Elder has struggled to find work since the incident. He couldn\u2019t sing in choirs due to the coronavirus pandemic, not that any local choirs would work with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe toll on Elder\u2019s mental well-being has been equally catastrophic: losing countless friends, colleagues, and fans is no small matter for an artist. He has seen a therapist and a psychiatrist, and he says he has needed to be \u201ctalked off the ledge\u201d several times. Needless to say, he has struggled to compose new music since everything fell apart,\u201d Soave wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The experience, however, has opened Elder\u2019s eyes to outside viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I was exiled, I started listening to voices on the right and the center, especially these classical liberals who have been exiled from the leftist movement,\u201d he says. \u201cThe strange silver lining is this shook me out of my prejudices a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A once up-and-coming musician has been canceled because he used his social media accounts to condemn arson after Black Lives Matter rioters set fire to a historic building near his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280473,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-183305123-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Nashville Composer Blacklisted For Condemning Arson During Black Lives Matter Riots","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-183305123-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Nashville Composer Blacklisted For Condemning Arson During Black Lives Matter Riots","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}