Did white Rage Against the Machine fans actually listen to/understand the lyrics?

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I've always wondered if they were really paying attention to what they were really saying or if they only cared about the guitar work

Reminds me of all the white Wu-Tang fans who pretend they understand the lyrics but don't realize RZA and them are calling them devils lol
OP, are you serious? You haven't seen the footage of the fans at Woodstock? You didn't read about them eventually adopting the same views as their parents as they got older? Young people rebel against society then they get older and conform to 99% of the views they challenged as kids.



Music industry smartly exploits young people's need to rebel by giving them a way to vent through music. They cash in on kids going through that phase.
 

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I think that young people tend to lean more left and go towards the right as they get older on average. So it's not impossible that those same people who liked Rage started to go right but still fukked with the Rage music out of nostalgia for their youth. Also, they reconcile these opposite ideas by viewing MAGA as an anti-establishment movement. They see it as "going against the system".
 

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I think that young people tend to lean more left and go towards the right as they get older on average. So it's not impossible that those same people who liked Rage started to go right but still fukked with the Rage music out of nostalgia for their youth. Also, they reconcile these opposite ideas by viewing MAGA as an anti-establishment movement. They see it as "going against the system".
 

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I even see it in non-white people. When you get older, you start dealing with "more serious" jobs, kids, mortgage, divorce and seperation of assets, crime in your neighborhood...

You might not become a full fledged republican, but you might not be as down with feminism, or defund the police.
 
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Yeah, the left leaning ones did. Those songs are partially what led them into that type of activism. The right leaning ones just thought they were a great rock band and was :yeshrug: to the lyrics.

RATM still held as one of the GOAT bands to both sides of white cats, tho. I'm surprised they're not in the HOF yet :patrice:
 
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