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Pitchfork music. Due to cosmic chance, I had an obsession with obscure music in preteen & teen years. Pitchfork collected and reviewed this music. Racial politics didn’t come up in the early days of indie music, and it definitely wasn’t central to music reviews. Pitchfork changed ownership in ~2011 and suddenly they were talking about race and politics in more of their reviews. Bands I liked were smeared for being white. Black music was reviewed considerably more. Pop music was taken seriously (disgusting). This is probably the number one thing that radicalized me. Indie rock music was, just generally speaking, a majority white culture created by majority white musicians, largely from middle to upper middle class families, and wholesome as far as youth music goes. Pitchfork started bashing the culture that created and valued indie music, while boosting pop and rap with a side of LGBT.
Reddit in its earlier years. There was actually a time where it had a diversity of political views and some interesting discussions. Obviously, not any more.
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