The attempt to cancel country artist Jason Aldean by falsely linking him to lynching and mob violence appears to have backfired.
Aldean’s song Try That In A Small Town rocketed to the No. 1 spot on iTunes and other platforms.
The song was released in May and generated no controversy until liberal journalists and activists on Twitter began linking Aldean’s song to lynching. According to one such activist, the fact that he filmed the video in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn, where a Black man was lynched in 1927 is enough to imply that Aldean promotes a similar kind of violence against people who don’t agree with him.
What started as activists on Twitter with nothing better to do has morphed into major media outlets analyzing this and pushing the same false narrative. Rolling Stone, the music publication that used to challenge ‘the man’ but has now become ‘the man,’ is chief among them.
“It’s the narrative of Make America Great Again, of white nationalism,” Dr. Karlos K. Hill, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, told Rolling Stone.
Some people find racism everywhere because that’s all they are looking for, and that appears to be the case with Hill.
Aldean took to Twitter earlier this week to push back on those claiming his song was racist.
“There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it — and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t...
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